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One-time NRL rising star Paul Carter is behind bars after he allegedly failed to commence court-ordered community service for domestic violence crimes. 

The serial offender was spared jail last December after he admitted spitting in his ex-girlfriend's face three times during an alcohol-fuelled night of mayhem.

Carter - who was sacked by three clubs during his playing career - had been placed on community correction orders, instead of being locked up.

But police allege Carter breached those orders by making no attempt to undergo the 140 hours of community service he was ordered to perform.

The 31-year-old, whose father is Penrith Panthers premiership winner Steve Carter, was due to face Sydney's Waverley Local Court on Tuesday but did not show up.

Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge issued an arrest warrant after learning Carter had allegedly not attended three community service appointments.

Carter was arrested on Wednesday and was brought back before Ms Milledge who refused him bail and ordered he return to court on Friday.

Ms Milledge said on Tuesday that despite Carter telling another magistrate in March he would report for community service, he had yet to present himself to work off any of the 140 hours. 

'Not even an hour,' she said, before issuing a warrant for Carter's arrest. 

Carter had been arrested in August 2022, two days after he attacked his former partner in his parents' home at Moonee Beach near Coffs Harbour on the NSW mid-north coast.

While being apprehended, the footballer verbally abused police officers, using the bizarre derogatory terms 'f***ot fingers b***h', 'melon-headed ****' and 'devon-head b***h'.

Carter, who was sacked by the Roosters, Titans and Rabbitohs, pleaded guilty in November to domestic violence-related common assault, contravening a restraining order and resisting or hindering police.

Waverley

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