FREMANTLE have suffered yet another off-field misadventure with Harley Bennell’s car being impounded after he was stopped by police who discovered he was driving without a licence.

PerthNow understands police stopped Bennell on Tuesday this week for a routine traffic check and informed him his licence had been suspended from November 30 for loss of demerit points - triggering the impounding of his car.

Bennell, who is due to go to Germany this weekend for cutting edge treatment on his chronic calf muscle problems, has told the club he was not aware of the loss of his licence because he had changed address recently.

The 24-year-old, traded by Gold Coast to Fremantle at the end of the 2015 season after 81 games and a series of off-field issues, is yet to play a home and away game for the Dockers.

He played just one pre-season match in 2016, then one WAFL match with Peel before succumbing to an ongoing calf muscle problem.

The latest injury concern is said to have affected his other “good” calf muscle.

Bennell’s traffic breach is the latest in a series of summer off-field issues to confront Fremantle as the club tries to rebound from a disappointing 2016 season.

Forward Shane Yarran’s AFL career is in jeopardy after news that he was charged on Tuesday with unlawful wounding.

Yarran, 27, took personal leave from the club on Wednesday to deal with the issue. He has been accused of using a broken bottle to stab a man in a pub brawl more than a year ago.

It will be alleged that Yarran was one of several people involved in a late night fight outside Champion Lakes Tavern in Camillo in July 2015.

Veteran defender Michael Johnson is also facing an assault charge after an alleged drunken incident in a Leederville kebab shop in November. Johnson has indicated that he will fight the charge.