Former host of The Chase Andrew O’Keefe is going through a brand new drug driving cost, in keeping with media stories.
O’Keefe is listed to look in Waverley Native Court docket on one rely of driving with a bootleg drug in his system.
It’s the newest saga for the previous TV star, final sentenced in October to a 30-month group corrections order, engagement with rehab, and a $2500 superb after pleading responsible to possessing a prohibited drug.
He was additionally convicted and sentenced over two counts of contravening an AVO, getting into enclosed lands and not using a lawful excuse, and driving with a bootleg drug in his system, although no pleas have been entered.
The costs have been in relation to O’Keefe having meth in his automobile exterior Rose Bay police station, driving with medication in his system, and breaching an AVO.
Justice of the Peace Jacqueline Milledge beforehand informed him jail can be a “subsequent step” if there have been additional incidents.
“You could have been given a number of alternatives to do one thing about your use of medicine,” Ms Milledge stated.
“I can guarantee you the subsequent step is jail. I’m not simply saying that, I completely imply it. It’s acquired to the state the place the courtroom would imagine you simply can’t be rehabilitated.”
The identical Justice of the Peace informed him final 12 months he was “fortunate to be alive” after emergency companies rushed to his residence in Vaucluse following the heroin overdose.
In December 2023 he escaped conviction after pleading responsible to driving with medication in his system earlier that 12 months. Throughout sentencing, Justice of the Peace Miranda Moody stated O’Keefe had since returned damaging screenings for medication and was being handled by a psychiatrist and psychologist.
“To his credit score, he’s clearly had some points with illicit drug use and I’ve been offered materials to his use of medicine or lack thereof,” Ms Moody stated.
O’Keefe will face courtroom on his newest drug-driving cost on January 20.
