{"id":10033,"date":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/ben-cousins-has-been-arrested-again-will-face-court-today\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","slug":"ben-cousins-has-been-arrested-again-will-face-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/ben-cousins-has-been-arrested-again-will-face-court-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Cousins Has Been Arrested Again, Will Face Court Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former AFL star Ben Cousins was arrested on Tuesday night and will face a WA court on Wednesday.<\/h3>\n<p>According to local media source communitynews.com.au:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBen Cousins has been arrested again, the 40-year-old former West Coast Eagles star taken into custody just after 6pm last night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice allegedly found 13 grams of methylamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCousins, of no fixed address, has been charged with possession of a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has also been charged with threats to injure, endanger or harm any person and two counts of breaching a family violence restraining order or violence restraining order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will appear in the Armadale Magistrates Court today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Ben Cousins has been arrested again, and will appear in court today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PerthNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PerthNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IioKbvXDfa\">https:\/\/t.co\/IioKbvXDfa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/40IEei1Fik\">pic.twitter.com\/40IEei1Fik<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Community News (@commnewsgroup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/commnewsgroup\/status\/1032049714676396033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former AFL star Ben Cousins was arrested on Tuesday night and will face a WA court on Wednesday. According to local media source communitynews.com.au: \u201cBen Cousins has been arrested again, the 40-year-old former West Coast Eagles star taken into custody just after 6pm last night. \u201cPolice allegedly found 13 grams of methylamphetamine. \u201cCousins, of no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ben Cousins Has Been Arrested Again, Will Face Court Today - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/ben-cousins-has-been-arrested-again-will-face-court-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Cousins Has Been Arrested Again, Will Face Court Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former AFL star Ben Cousins was arrested on Tuesday night and will face a WA court on Wednesday. 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