To name a few from 2012...
Summer Camp
Electric Forest
Bonnaroo
Wakarusa
Summerset
North Coast Music Festival
...
Each year it seems more and more festivals are popping up of all sizes and sorts. Every year there are the veterens who return for the (insert time, aprox. 5-15 years, depending on the fest), the new-veterens (this isn't your first time at a festival but it's no more than your second or third), and the newbies (congrats! welcome to the music festival scene! =)
*note: this is completely my opinion ... if you differ in your defining of categories of attendees please don't hesitate to comment on this post!!
While I understand that the growth of the scene seems inevitable (along with the commercialization that goes with it ... (see the latest cover of Rolling Stone )
does this also have to mean that there are more arrests every year at festivals and shows? Particularly for drug crimes and now, sadly more and more, for violent and victim crimes including fighting and harrassment (battery and assault), theft (stealing from tents being the most prevalent here but not the only way it takes place), and even the saddest of all - sexual assault (such as will forever now be assciated in the minds of so many people with New Year's Eve this past year in Chicago)
Monday, July 16, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Police at Electric Forest Festival (2012) make eight arrests, press 45 felony drug charges...
More on some of the other stories/occurrences of interest from EFF 2012 will be posted on in the next few days. See below for the latest...
(July 2012, Andrew Krietz)
With attendance capped at 25,000 and near sellout crowds, Michigan State Police troopers investigated 67 complaints during the four-day event, according to a release by Lt. Kevin Leavitt at the Hart Post.
Eight subjects were lodged in the Oceana County Jail and 49 subjects are pending arrest following review by the Oceana County Prosecutor’s Office.
“(The numbers appear) about normal,” Leavitt said. “You’ve got to think, if you’ve got 25,000 people there, you’re going to have that element everywhere and that’s what we were prepared for.”
Among the charges pressed, there were 45 felony drug charges, one felony charge of resisting and obstructing an officer causing injury and 12 misdemeanor charges. Those include larcenies, assaults, drug charges, reckless driving, operating under the influence of drugs and resisting and obstructing an officer.
The autopsy continues on a 37-year-old Connecticut man who died at the festival Friday morning, Leavitt said. The man, identified as Michael Benway Jr., was found dead at his campsite by fellow campers.
Foul play is not suspected and it will take a few weeks before the results of the examination and toxicology tests are known, Leavitt said.
A local Rothbury weather station reported a high of 94 degrees Thursday — the first day of the festival and warmest of all days. Leavitt said heat played a factor this year compared to last.
“It was a lot warmer this year than last year,” Leavitt said. “The guys out there in the field would tell people to hydrate often.”
Troopers responded to 41 various medical calls with emergency medical service crews and festival security.
"Overall, it was a good festival," Leavitt said. "We've assisted with festivals in previous years and we had an idea of what to expect before this one."
(http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/07/45_felony_drug_charges_pressed.html)
(July 2012, Andrew Krietz)
With attendance capped at 25,000 and near sellout crowds, Michigan State Police troopers investigated 67 complaints during the four-day event, according to a release by Lt. Kevin Leavitt at the Hart Post.
Eight subjects were lodged in the Oceana County Jail and 49 subjects are pending arrest following review by the Oceana County Prosecutor’s Office.
“(The numbers appear) about normal,” Leavitt said. “You’ve got to think, if you’ve got 25,000 people there, you’re going to have that element everywhere and that’s what we were prepared for.”
Among the charges pressed, there were 45 felony drug charges, one felony charge of resisting and obstructing an officer causing injury and 12 misdemeanor charges. Those include larcenies, assaults, drug charges, reckless driving, operating under the influence of drugs and resisting and obstructing an officer.
EnlargeSarah Wenig eyes the camera, laying between her friends Shaye Smith, left, and Monica Sydow, right, in Ranch Arena during Electric Forest on Thursday, June 28, 2012. Libby March | MLiveBest of Electric Forest gallery (38 photos)
Foul play is not suspected and it will take a few weeks before the results of the examination and toxicology tests are known, Leavitt said.
A local Rothbury weather station reported a high of 94 degrees Thursday — the first day of the festival and warmest of all days. Leavitt said heat played a factor this year compared to last.
“It was a lot warmer this year than last year,” Leavitt said. “The guys out there in the field would tell people to hydrate often.”
Troopers responded to 41 various medical calls with emergency medical service crews and festival security.
"Overall, it was a good festival," Leavitt said. "We've assisted with festivals in previous years and we had an idea of what to expect before this one."
(http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/07/45_felony_drug_charges_pressed.html)
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