Evans Head woman Molly Wood faces court for making false police report about Mullumbimby family

A northern NSW woman made a dramatic false report about a family to police amid a dispute, claiming they had loaded guns and prompting a lights and sirens response.

NSW Police determined the report was fake after an urgent emergency response. File image. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Simon Dallinger

An Evans Head woman has found herself in hot water after making a false report to police about a family smoking meth and giving children alcohol while armed with loaded guns.

The false report which landed Molly Wood, 30, in Byron Bay Local Court came amid hostility between her and the Mullumbimby family at the centre of the wild claims.

Wood faced the court pleading guilty to falsely representing an act or event to police which called for an urgent investigation between 6.50pm-8.10pm on September 30 last year.

She called triple-0 from her home and told police she would like to remain anonymous, but ended up providing a fake name, Mia.

However, police ultimately figured out the ruse.

Wood told police children had passed out from intoxication at the family’s home while adults smoked methamphetamines, court documents state.

The family was accused of methamphetamines use. File image. Picture: Cameron Bates

“There are three or four children there under the age of five. Two of them are drinking alcohol, all the adults look like they are really drunk and are smoking meth” Wood said.

“I really think the police need to go over there.”

“They‘re all on drugs … these people have the department of child services going there every week.”

Police asked Wood how she knew this was happening and she said she was not at the Mullumbimby address in question, but her friend was, police documents state.

“One of the kids is not waking up, he is drunk on a can of double Jack Daniels … they have loaded weapons on them,” Wood said.

Byron Bay Police and NSW Ambulance were alarmed and considered the job a priority welfare concern which required an urgent response.

Emergency services fled to the scene and police vehicles overtook traffic using lights and sirens.

But when they arrived at the home there was no evidence of the claims.

They only found a clean home occupied by two sober men and a sleeping seven-year-old boy.

The men were “shocked” and “dumbfounded” when police informed them of the allegation.

The family was falsely accused of possessing loaded guns.

Without being told by police, the men determined Wood made the call and believed the report was made to harass them.

There was “animosity between the woman and the family,” police documents state.

The men denied all claims made by Mood and when the boy was woken there was no sign of intoxication, only confusion at the sight of emergency services.

Wood was questioned and could not provide evidence to back her claims, or that a friend told her to make the call.

She told police she was suffering from physical and mental health problems.

Magistrate Karen Stafford sentenced Wood to a two-year supervision community corrections order, which includes 100 hours of community service work.