A Canberra man was brought before court on Friday after he was charged four times in four months for drink or drug driving.
The 23-year-old man was stopped by police on December 29 in Belconnen. A drug test came back positive for methamphetamines, the ACT Magistrates Court heard on Friday.
The man had been stopped by police two days earlier, on December 27, when he was also charged with drug driving. On December 17, he was stopped and charged with drink driving, court documents say.
On August 17, he had been charged with drug driving.
These alleged matters were ongoing, but the court on Friday heard the man also had three convictions for drug driving.
He worked in the mines in Queensland, but had come home to care for his sick mother and address his drug problems, the court heard.
He had limited his marijuana use to once a day to help him sleep, but had recently relapsed and began to use ice again. The court heard he had an appointment with a psychiatrist early in the new year.
Magistrate Beth Campbell remanded him in custody.
"I cannot grant you bail," she said. "You've had plenty of time to wake up to yourself, and the obvious criminality of your conduct."
The man will next appear in court in January.
Twenty people were brought through a busy bail court on Friday.
Also refused bail was a man accused of breaching a domestic violence order by letting himself into a home and refusing to leave.
It's alleged the man came and went from the woman's Dickson apartment for several days from December 14. The woman told police later she feared for her safety if she called to report him being there.
On Thursday, the woman was getting cash out from an ATM in Dickson when she received a phone call from the man. She told him she was in the city, but then recognised his car parked nearby.
She got into her car, and the man pulled up and blocked her leaving.
She raised the window, locked the doors and turned the music up.
The man yelled at the woman: "You're a slut" , and other obscenities she couldn't hear, until he went back to his car and sat there for 10 minutes before leaving, court documents say.
Several people are said to have witnessed the incident.
When police arrived, she told them the man had taken a set of keys after she had changed the locks. She went with police to her home and found the unit open and the spare key in the lock in the door.
The man, through his Legal Aid duty lawyer, told the court he denied contacting the woman. He said he had called her once while she was in the presence of police officers, because he wanted to communicate to her that she was driving a rental car rented in his name, and that was in breach of the insurance conditions.
He was refused bail.
"The defendant actively sought out [the woman] on a number of occasions" while under an interim domestic violence order, Ms Campbell said. "He must accept that his word cannot be taken to have much substance in those circumstances."
Another man was refused bail for drug driving and driving without a licence after he had got in a car to go pick up his dog from the vet.
He had told police he had taken cocaine at a work party.
The man said through his Legal Aid duty lawyer that the dog had had $1800 worth of veterinary treatment to treat its feet. The dog had been taken to the pound after the treatment, and he didn't know what would happen if he didn't pick up the animal in time.
It was the fourth time he had allegedly been caught driving without a licence, and the magistrate said he had tied her hands on bail.