Newly released dash camera video shows the arrests of two Portland Timbers players after a drunken driving crash last October in Lake Oswego.

Timbers goalkeeper Jake Gleeson rear-ended another driver near Pilkington Road and Willow Lane. Police said he called team captain Liam Ridgewell soon after.

By the time police responded to the scene, the car that Gleeson hit had left. It was driven by a bartender who worked at the bar where Gleeson had just been, Hop N' Cork, court testimony/police records showed.

Gleeson and Ridgewell were later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants after failing field sobriety tests. Both didn't take breathalyzer tests.

Gleeson, 26, pleaded no contest in November to that charge and reckless driving. He also pleaded guilty to refusing to take a breath test. He entered a one-year alcohol diversion program.

A Lake Oswego municipal judge threw out the field sobriety test results and other evidence against Ridgewell, 32. Prosecutors dismissed the charges against him.

Ridgewell's attorneys noted Officer James Euscher told the soccer player early in the investigation that he was going to let him go because he had no evidence Ridgewell drove drunk or was involved in the crash. But the officer continued to question Ridgewell and then asked him to undergo tests to see if he was impaired.

The Timbers started their season Friday. Ridgewell remains the team captain and both players were in the starting lineup for the home win against Minnesota United FC.

The city released the patrol car video from Officer Joshua Price and Euscher after a public records request from The Oregonian/OregonLive. Both officers were also wearing microphones.

Ridgewell initially told police that he hadn't been with his teammate and that neither had been drinking, but later admitted the two had earlier played golf together and then went to the bar afterward, the video shows.

"Personally, we went to Hop N Cork. We had something to eat. We had a couple of drinks. That is literally it," Ridgewell told Euscher according to the video. "Personally, I don't think that (Gleeson was) too intoxicated (to have crashed)."

Ridgewell said he was heading home when he came upon Gleeson.

Gleeson wasn't sure how many drinks he had that night. At one point, Officer Price told Gleeson that the player earlier said he had six beers. But Gleeson then said it may have been four or five.

"Go happy medium and call it five?" Price asked.

"Yeah about five, yeah, about five. Yeah," Gleeson replied.

-- Everton Bailey Jr.

ebailey@oregonian.com

503-221-8343; @EvertonBailey