Two Gold Coast men allegedly high on LSD are facing charges over a rampage at a backpackers’ hostel in the NSW town of Nimbin where a man was stabbed and a police officer punched in the face.
A 20-year-old man allegedly stabbed a 38-year-old man in the back several times at the Cullen Street hostel about 4am on Saturday.
Police allege he then damaged a car and a number of rooms in the hostel before fleeing into a paddock where officers caught up with him and used capsicum spray in order to arrest him.
Another man, aged 19, allegedly assaulted a 43-year-old woman and punched a female police officer in the nose as he fled the hostel.
He was found lying naked on a car and arrested at the scene.
“The incident on the weekend is a concern and shows the violent effects illicit substances can have on those who take them,” Detective Inspector Cameron Lindsay said in a statement.
“LSD and similar drugs are illegal for a reason. The contents of those drugs are often unknown, and even the smallest amount can cause serious injury and even death.”
Both men are believed to have taken LSD and have each been charged with a string of offences including assault and malicious damage.
They have been granted conditional bail and are due to face Lismore Local Court in April.
Its only LSD …next it will be medicinal .nimbin drug dealers are a joke along with Mr drug lord smoke dope bald n stoned the lot of the gronks need to be lined up along a wall and shot…idiots your street dealers selling dope laced with many chemicals .for example how many town boys spray their medicinal pot with the likes of fly spray ..yep fly spray I’m still trying to figure out exactly how fly sprayed dope is a medical cure for any thing but greedy suckers proclaiming there doing something good for the world …what a joke what’s next run the smack heads out of town .funny how the town boys parents the likes of the malloys bring the smack into town yet your all anti smack !!! But it lines your pockets with cash . better yet all be nice to lismore couincileer jenny that way the town can again get funding for shit they have got three or four times already . who else is in the pockets of these scumbags next it will be oh the bikes are great guys …oh that was sarcasam too. Anyway iI’d hate to do all lismore polices work for them as naming and shaming anything to do with factual crap in nimbin is concidered rubbish .yet nimbin can name and shame any made up story or person as they wish ironic they live under the banner of karma and wonder why one by one they are being taken out 🙂