Former AFL star Ben Cousins has been charged with breaching a violence restraining order and drug possession.
Ex-Eagle Cousins spent the night in custody at the Perth Watchhouse after he was arrested on Monday afternoon on Amherst Road in Canning Vale.
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Ben Cousins reportedly arrested in Canning Vale
Former Eagles star Ben Cousins has reportedly found trouble again with police, this time arrested in Canning Vale for allegedly breaching a restraining order and possession of drugs. Vision: 9 News Perth
He was released on bail after fronting Armadale Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
His lawyer said "he's in a very good place at the moment."
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Police attended a home in Canning Vale about 1pm on Monday, where the 38-year-old man from Bicton was arrested and charged with two counts of breaching a violence restraining order and one count of possessing methamphetamine.
The VRO relates to his ex-partner and mother of his two children Maylea Elizabeth Tinecheff.
Cousins will face court again on November 22.
The fallen football star was last detained by police, and then hospitalised, in late June after interfering with traffic on Canning Highway in Como while in a dazed state.
Cousins has had drug issues throughout his career and after it ended in 2010.
At one stage he was banned for a year from football while contracted to the Eagles and had several run-ins with police after Richmond threw him a lifeline in 2009.
The 2005 Brownlow medallist was spared jail last year for a bizarre episode in which he trespassed at a Sikh temple in Canning Vale.
In the subsequent court case, a lawyer for Cousins said his client had been mentally ill at the time of incident, had been hospitalised rather than locked up and had taken a fencing job in Collie.
When former Eagles teammate Chris Judd launched his autobiography Inside last October he said he'd had recent contact with Cousins and that he was "doing well".
West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett, on the eve of the club's 10-year premiership celebrations, said he would forgo that 2006 success in exchange for the good mental health of Cousins and other troubled ex-Eagles from that side.
Cousins' on-field career had just about every honour imaginable, including six All-Australian jumpers and a Brownlow Medal in 2005.
But there was just as much drama off it, with West Coast forced to take the captaincy of its favourite son after he famously avoided a booze bus by jumping into the Canning River and then eventually being sacked by the club in 2007 after several failed stints in rehab.
He finished his career with two seasons at Richmond in 2009 and 2010 and played 270 AFL games in total.
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