Cheyenne Pring-Taylor appeared at the Ballarat Magistrates' Court on Tuesday facing the breach offence and a new charge relating to being a passenger in a stolen car.

Police prosecutor Senior Constable Giles Brown said CCTV showed Pring-Taylor walking into a service station wearing a dressing gown attempting to pay for fuel for the stolen car in August 2019.

Her fingerprints were also found in the car that it is believed a man was driving at the time.

The court heard Pring-Taylor told police she may have got a lift in the car to Wendouree and she did not know the car was stolen but said it was a 50 per cent chance it was stolen given who was driving it.

Pring-Taylor pleaded guilty to the breach of community corrections order imposed for previous charges of drug trafficking and driving offences and asked for a sentence indication on the new charge.

Magistrate Ron Saines said it was a serious example of a community corrections order breach as it was the second time she had not complied with the court order.

He indicated he would re-sentence Pring-Taylor on the breach and defer sentencing on the new charge to see if she complied with the community corrections order.

Defence lawyer David Tamanika said Pring-Taylor had prioritised her employment over the court order in the past two years and worked full-time instead of completing the required community work.

He said Pring-Taylor had completed a certificate in metal fabrication and worked as a welder in 2019 but lost her job due to COVID-19 issues so returned to study civil construction and was now working full-time in metal fabrication.

"The law is plain, if the court tells you to do something, do it," Mr Saines said.

Mr Saines said he was 'a little more forgiving' of the breaches given there had been no offending in the last 18 months and Pring-Taylor was in a pattern of regular employment.

Pring-Taylor was re-sentenced to a 12 month community corrections order with treatment and supervision and the community work component was removed.

She was instead fined a total of $2127 and will return to court in June for judicial monitoring and sentencing on the new charge.

"If you do well you will be treated with significant leniency," he said.

"But I am very unimpressed with a second breach of community corrections order for serious drug trafficking into a prison and serious driving offences."

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