Ben Cousins was arrested overnight. Pic: Channel SEVEN Source: Channel 7
Former AFL star Ben Cousins has had another run-in with the law.
HE WAS once AFL's golden boy but a struggle with drugs saw Ben Cousins' bright future quickly decline both on and off the field.
While he avoided the headlines for a while, the Brownlow medallist turned bad boy will undergo a mental health check after being caught behind the secure fences of an SAS base in Western Australia.
The incident occurred only days after the 36-year-old was charged after allegedly being caught driving recklessly and refusing to give a breath test.
The latest incidents add to a long string of controversies that have followed the father of two's very public fall from grace after a battling drug addiction for much of his AFL career.
Ben Cousins is also well known for his 'such is life' tattoo. Source: Supplied
His Wiki profile says the midfielder is best known for his 270-game career with West Coast and Richmond AFL teams, but it's been Cousins' off-field antics that have earned him the most attention in recent years.
Entering the game as a teenager, the Geelong-born player quickly rose to be recognised as the league's rising star in 1996.
His popularity grew off the field with flattering feature stories labelling him "football's Brad Pitt" and a rock star of the game, while his career carried him to captaincy and eventually the sport's highest honour, the Brownlow Medal, in 2005.
A young Ben Cousins is the West Coast Eagles 'Rising Star' in 1996. Source: News Corp Australia
Brownlow medallist, 2005. Source: News Limited
It was 2006 when it all started to come crashing down for Cousins. His first offence, fleeing a booze bus and leaving his girlfriend and vehicle in the middle of the highway led to his resignation as captain of the West Coast Eagles.
Cousins was forced off the field at the height of his career the following year for bringing the game into disrepute. His drug problem became well known and wasn't helped by the passing of his best mate, Eagles legend Chris Mainwaring who died of an overdose in October 2007.
Possession charges and stints in rehab followed and while Cousins was never out of the news for long he did attract the occasional positive headline.
His 2007 rehabilitation attempt in the US was going well until he went missing and was hospitalised following a five-day cocaine binge, and on returning to Australia Cousins embarked on another drug binge, this time during Schoolies week.
He was sacked by the West Coast Eagles that year, and was banned for one year from senior footy by the AFL. After serving his time, he was recruited by Richmond, however only played 32 games in 2009 and 2010.
In 2010 he was hospitalised twice with severe abdominal pain and later that year reports of a breakdown were confirmed when the midfielder retired.
Regret was a big theme in Cousins' retirement announcement.
"I'll always regret what I've put my family though ... there's a lot of shame and a lot of regret," he said.
Ben Cousins leaving the Central Law Courts in Perth in 2012, where he faced charges of possessing drugs with an intent to sell. Source: News Limited
Cousins didn't find direction in his post-playing life. He was unable to hold down a mining job in WA, and his father Bryan Cousins conceded his son had taken "a couple of bad turns" in his attempt to rebuild.
This looked up when Cousins and his partner Maylea Tinecheff welcomed their son Bobby in September of 2011, but only a few months later he was admitted to hospital after falling and hitting his head on a bathroom floor at a Perth drug clinic.
A drug possession charge followed in March 2012 when he was caught with meth, and another the following month this time charged with possessing cannabis. He made headlines again after a drug-induced psychosis landed him in hospital.
His downfall was documented in Seven's documentary 'Such Is Life: The Troubled Times of Ben Cousins.' Source: Supplied
Since then, Cousins has appeared to be been doing OK.
He's managed to mostly keep out of trouble, occasionally working his way back into the headlines with good and bad news including welcoming his second child, a baby girl, and getting into a fight at a park in Perth.
But once again that's all unravelled in the past week.
Doctors are "concerned about his mental state" after he was caught behind the secure fence of an SAS army base.
Ben Cousins allegedly scaled the walls of the Swanbourne barracks. Pic: Channel 7 Source: Supplied
The 36-year-old allegedly scaled two fences of the home of Australia's elite special air service.
Last week, the premiership player was charged after allegedly being caught driving recklessly and refusing to give a breath test.
Police said at the time that a 36-year-old Bicton man was arrested after allegedly driving erratically and not stopping when requested by police.
The Brownlow medallist is due to appear in the Fremantle Magistrates Court on April 8.
Cousins is due in court next month. Pic: Channel 7 Source: Channel 7
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