Garry Mizzi is alleged to have taken unknown quantities of prohibited and prescription drugs with his partner, including ice, speed, Xanax and Diazapam.

They had become paranoid, violent, unpredictable and irrational, which had led to bizarre behaviour by both of them.

Mizzi had apologised after being found in a walk-in robe in the master bedroom of a Lavington house.

But when police attempted to escort him from the premises, there was a violent battle with two officers who had to struggle to restrain him.

As he fought the highway patrol officers, they sought urgent assistance, with more police rushing to the scene in Union Road about 6pm.

Police had made several attempts to subdue Mizzi with capsicum spray, but it had had little impact.

It took five police to get Mizzi from the front of a residence to a waiting vehicle.

The circumstances of what took place were outlined in an out-of-sessions hearing in Albury Local Court yesterday morning.

Mizzi, 34, of Handel Street, appeared in custody on charges of entering enclosed lands, damaging property, aggravated break and enter with intent in company, break and enter a dwelling house with intent, break and enter destroying property and two counts of resisting officers.

Solicitor Sue Robey appeared for him and said Mizzi was clearly under the influence of drugs.

He appeared in the dock without a shirt and Ms Robey said it was soaked in capsicum spray.

Police prosecutor Sgt Gary Lewis said Mizzi was in a “show-cause” situation, being on conditional bail. Some of the charges he was facing carried five years’ jail or more.

Mizzi did not make a release application and the charges were adjourned until today before magistrate Tony Murray.

After taking the drugs, Mizzi and his partner barricaded all the doors and windows in their residence. They broke off door handles, nailed doors shut, pushed furniture up against them and put objects through the plaster walls behind the doors to stop them being opened.

It was about 4.55pm when they left the house by jumping through a bedroom window and smashing glass.

They were running around neighbouring yards and Mizzi’s partner was carrying a maddock and baseball bat.

She was seen hitting a tree with the maddock attempting to cut it down, and witnesses described the pair’s behaviour as irrational.

They had jumped fences and smashed their way into a garden shed through the roof before barricading the door with a clamp and vice grips.

Both went inside a house through an unlocked back door, but a man inside was unaware of their presence because he was watching a movie with headphones on.

Mizzi’s partner escaped from the house after being confronted by a neighbour at the front door, while he hid until he was found.

When arrested, Mizzi’s partner was taken to hospital by ambulance and she is likely to appear in court today.