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Former West Coast Eagles AFL player Ben Cousins arrives at the Fremantle Magistrates Court in Perth, last month. He is expected to appear in court again today. Picture: AAP Image/Richard Wainwright.
TROUBLED former AFL star Ben Cousins has been refused bail after he was charged with a string of offences related to drugs and family violence, including an allegation of stalking.
Cousins, 38, allegedly stalked his former partner, breached a violence restraining order and was found in possession of methamphetamine.
A WA police spokesman said search warrants were issued at residences in the Perth suburbs of Melville and Bicton overnight, and Cousins was arrested when he arrived in a car at the Melville home.
Cousins, appeared in Armadale Magistrates Court on Friday charged with seven counts of breaching a violence restraining order, aggravated stalking, driving without a licence, and possessing a prohibited drug and smoking utensil. He was refused bail by a Perth magistrate.
The former West Coast Eagles captain and Brownlow medallist was fined $2600 in December for drug offences and breaching a VRO taken out by his former partner Maylea Tinecheff, with whom he has two young children.
Magistrate Stephen Wilson warned Cousins at the time that he had to stick with his treatment program and warned a further VRO breach could mean a mandatory prison sentence.
Cousins was last in court in January when a three-hour trial was set for June over a separate meth possession charge.
He told reporters outside court at the time that he was doing OK.
— With AAP