Pleading guilty to multiple driving and drug charges, Beau Davis, 24, of Canadian, will reappear in court in September, and was handed a 12 month community corrections order.

The court was told Davis had been intercepted four times - once in a stolen vehicle in Melton, where he gave a false name to police, once in Melton in an unregistered car, once in Ballarat where he was unlicensed and an oral fluid sample tested positive for methamphetamine, and once in February 2018 where the police Air Wing was involved in a car chase.

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Davis refused to stop for police on Sturt Street on February 24, 2018, after they activated their lights and sirens.

The police summary noted he "increased his speed" to lose the officers, before he was found again by a separate unit, which pursued him across town, including on the Glenelg and Midland highways.

At one stage he was recorded driving at 143km/h in an 80km/h zone.

Stop sticks were deployed and he was stopped in Russell Street, and arrested in the backyard of an address.

He returned a negative drug and alcohol reading and said he "got nervous and anxious" when he saw the police.

On March 28, he was stopped by police on Dana Street walking his bike after they smelled cannabis.

A search revealed an Oxycontin tablet, a bag containing methamphetamine, and a bag with unknown contents.

He was arrested, and a further search at the police station revealed a knife and five boxes of Suboxone.

He was on a court order at the time.

His defence lawyer, Andrew Madden, said Davis was registered as a carer for his ailing father, and argued rehabilitation for substance abuse as part of a "significantly well-structured corrections order" would help.

Magistrate Steven Raleigh was unconvinced, noting he was on such an order when the offending occurred.

"The situation is his driving is such that he'd put the community at risk, every time you open a newspaper or see the news you hear about people in these sorts of pursuits," he said.

"He was on an order already, the only thing they didn't know was that he had a drug problem because he didn't tell them."

Mr Madden said Davis had attempted to fight his drug habit himself, and had been unable to find employment due to an injury sustained when he was younger.

Mr Raleigh disqualified Davis from driving for two years and fined him an aggregate of $500.

In giving him the community corrections order, with strict reporting conditions, he said he would defer sentencing given Davis' young age.

"You must produce fortnightly drug screens - it's not mandatory, but if you've got nothing to give me, I've got nothing to work with," he said.

"The decision is purely in his hands if he wishes to avoid a term of imprisonment."

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