(May 2011, Journal Star Staff (underlines added))
PEORIA —
With the stages being dismantled and the crowds departing, Peoria County prosecutors were left with the final task of the 2011 Summer Camp music festival - figuring out whom and what to charge.
Seventeen people were charged Tuesday in Peoria County Circuit Court, which puts the total number of felony drug charges at 31, around the same amount from last year when 36 people were charged.
The numbers also seem to match up on arrests. This year, there was around 60. Last year, there was around 70. One major difference was the type of drug offenses. This year, the drug of choice appeared to be Ecstasy, but other charges included nitrous oxide, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms
Aside from felony drug arrests on roadways leading to Three Sisters Park and within the festival grounds, a handful of other mostly minor charges resulted from the three-day gathering.
Two men from Champaign-Urbana were arrested Sunday for allegedly impersonating security guards and attacking someone in an attempt to steal alcohol and tobacco.
Dyvar Y. Johnson, 22, of Urbana and Otha L. Harris Jr., 36, of Champaign allegedly put a festival-goer in a headlock at about 3 p.m. while telling him they were part of the security team. They demanded the victim's beer and cigarettes.
Other campers in the wooded area of Three Sisters Park witnessed the incident about 3 p.m., though the victim had left by the time police arrived.
Johnson and Harris were booked into the Peoria County Jail on charges of robbery, possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A mobile medical unit staffed by OSF Saint Francis Medical Center treated about 400 campers at Three Sisters Park. Six were transported to the emergency department in Peoria, four of those for drug-related illnesses, according to Shelli Dankoff, spokeswoman for the hospital.
"It ran the gamut from drugs and alcohol to stitches needed for someone cutting their hand with a knife while peeling an orange. That sort of stuff," Dankoff said. "Actually the 400 treated were fewer than the previous year."
About 110 people on their way to Summer Camp were arrested on drug charges in Putnam County by a task force that also includes Bureau and LaSalle counties.
Seventeen people were charged Tuesday in Peoria County Circuit Court, which puts the total number of felony drug charges at 31, around the same amount from last year when 36 people were charged.
The numbers also seem to match up on arrests. This year, there was around 60. Last year, there was around 70. One major difference was the type of drug offenses. This year, the drug of choice appeared to be Ecstasy, but other charges included nitrous oxide, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms
Aside from felony drug arrests on roadways leading to Three Sisters Park and within the festival grounds, a handful of other mostly minor charges resulted from the three-day gathering.
Two men from Champaign-Urbana were arrested Sunday for allegedly impersonating security guards and attacking someone in an attempt to steal alcohol and tobacco.
Dyvar Y. Johnson, 22, of Urbana and Otha L. Harris Jr., 36, of Champaign allegedly put a festival-goer in a headlock at about 3 p.m. while telling him they were part of the security team. They demanded the victim's beer and cigarettes.
Other campers in the wooded area of Three Sisters Park witnessed the incident about 3 p.m., though the victim had left by the time police arrived.
Johnson and Harris were booked into the Peoria County Jail on charges of robbery, possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A mobile medical unit staffed by OSF Saint Francis Medical Center treated about 400 campers at Three Sisters Park. Six were transported to the emergency department in Peoria, four of those for drug-related illnesses, according to Shelli Dankoff, spokeswoman for the hospital.
"It ran the gamut from drugs and alcohol to stitches needed for someone cutting their hand with a knife while peeling an orange. That sort of stuff," Dankoff said. "Actually the 400 treated were fewer than the previous year."
About 110 people on their way to Summer Camp were arrested on drug charges in Putnam County by a task force that also includes Bureau and LaSalle counties.
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