SA man Brenton Mackenzie Skanes released on bail after allegedly importing 20,000 LSD “tickets”

A teen charged with the state’s largest LSD seizure, worth about $300,000, has been released on bail.

Brenton Skanes, 18, uses his jacket hood to cover his face as he leaves the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday. Mr Skanes is charged with importing the largest quantity of LSD tabs ever seized in South Australia. Photo: AAP Image/Sam Wundke.

A teen charged with the state’s largest LSD seizure, worth about $300,000, has been released on bail.

Brenton Mackenzie Skanes, 18, of Marion is accused of importing 20,000 tabs of LSD, a hallucinating drug, which he had bought from the Netherlands on the dark web.

The dual Canadian-Australian citizen was kept behind bars overnight to ensure both his passports had been seized by police before he was released on Friday to live with his mother.

He appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday where Magistrate Alfio Grasso said he must report to the Netley Police Station three times a week while on bail.

Police will allege he attempted to import the 20,000 tabs of lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, buying the drugs over the dark net and arranging to have the ‘tickets’ sent via the postal stream to an address in the Adelaide CBD.

However, detectives from the South Australian Joint Agency Ice Strike Team and the SA Police Serious & Organised Crime Branch arrested the man at the Franklin St Port Office on Wednesday.

He is yet to plead to a charge of trafficking a large commercial quantity of the controlled drug.

The court previously heard that, when he arrived to collect the parcel — which was not addressed to him — Skanes showed a Canadian passport and drivers licence as identification.

Skanes, who shielded his face with a jacket hood and refused to comment as he left court holding hands with his mother, returns to court in November.