Former Australian rules player, Ben Cousins was caught with cannabis. Cousins was charged with possesion of marijuana and somoking device after police searched his car in Perth.

The 33 year old former Australian football star was stopped by officers of the Orginized Crime Squad outside his North Beach home, where he lives with his partner and with his baby boy. It was found less than one gram marijana  in his wallet and a glass pipe in a bag in his car.

Reporters say Cousins was not taken into custity, because the amount of cannabis very small.

Ben Cousins is already facing drug charges for possession of metamphetamine. It is not known whether this new case is going to effect the outcome of that charge.