Mob attacks police in Alice Springs A VIOLENT mob in Alice Springs has allegedly attacked officers, threatening them with a box cutter and smashing police car windows. Police say four people are in custody following the incident, at the Hidden Valley Town Camp at Alice Springs. Officers went to the camp after a report of a fire and took a 44-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman who were allegedly both very drunk, into protective custody before trying to detain two more drunk men, when violence erupted and people armed with rocks forced police to release one man. Police say that man then opened a caged police vehicle, and released the people in it and the crowd attacked police vehicles with logs and rocks, smashing windows and light bars. Tasers were used against the group but proved ineffective. Three men aged 25, 44, 54 and a 30-year-old woman have been charged with criminal damage and assaulting police.