Troubled former Hawthorn premiership winner Brian Lake has been charged with a number of new offences and will spend his second night in jail after being arrested over an incident on Tuesday.

Police said they arrested a 37-year-old Caroline Springs man at a house in Aintree, in Melbourne's outer west, about 9.30pm on Wednesday.

Brian Lake after facing the AFL Tribunal in 2014. Credit:Justin McManus

Lake, the 2013 Norm Smith medallist, has been charged with stalking, entering a place likely to cause a breach of the peace, theft, criminal damage and committing an indictable offence while on bail.

He appeared in Sunshine Magistrates Court on Thursday afternoon and has not been bailed.