Former TV host Andrew O’Keefe has been charged after returning a positive drug test.
Officers from the Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command allegedly stopped the 52-year-old at 11.45am on Sunday where he was found behind the wheel of a Mercedes sedan on Cranbrook Road in Sydney‘s affluent suburb of Bellevue Hill.
He was then arrested and returned a positive roadside drug test. It comes just weeks after he was caught allegedly driving with a suspended licence.
Police allege O’Keefe had threatened a man at an address on Longworth Ave in the neighbouring suburb of Point Piper ‘a short time’ before he was stopped by officers.
He was taken to Waverley Police Station for secondary oral fluid testing which allegedly returned a positive result.
The sample has been sent for analysis.
Following inquiries O’Keefe has been charged with contravene prohibition/restriction in AVO and stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm.
He was refused bail and is set to appear before Waverley Local Court on Monday.
Former TV host Andrew O’Keefe has been charged after returning a positive drug test
Sunday’s arrest comes after O’Keefe was issued a Court Attendance Notice for the offence of drive while suspended on June 20, following a vehicle stop in Bellevue Hill.
In January, he was also convicted on a domestic violence charge dating back to September 2021, where he kicked and spat at a woman.
He was found guilty of common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of possessing a prohibited drug and contravening an apprehended violence order.
But he avoided jail time and was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order and three 18-month community corrections order for the domestic violence offences.
