The Eagles have been supportive of their former premiership player.

Former West Coast Eagle Ben Cousins is back in court, charged with drug possession, making threats and breaking a violence restraining order after he was picked up from a home east of Perth by police overnight.

Cousins, 40, will face Armadale Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning, after he was taken into custody by police in the suburb of Canning Vale on Tuesday evening.

Police originally arrested Cousins in relation to another matter, and it will be alleged officers found 13 grams of methylamphetamine on him during a search.