Undercover police and private security were on site at Beyond Wonderland, as were over 100 sheriff’s deputies and a number of sniffer dogs If they invite us, odds are we’re going to come play.” The state and local agencies are cracking down. DEA spokesman Timothy Massino told Your EDM: “There’s clearly a huge synthetic drug problem in the scene. It was revealed in September that plainclothes agents of the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have begun infiltrating EDM events in an attempt to weed out drug dealers. Such deaths have increased media attention on dance music events, especially in the US, and led to crackdowns by local authorities. One person, 22-year-old John Hoang Dinh Vo, also died after suffering an ecstasy-related seizure at the previous year’s Beyond Wonderland. The electronic dance music (EDM) festival, promoted by part-Live Nation-owned Insomniac, had announced a tightening of security around the 2016 event after a spate of drug-related deaths at similar festivals in California.
Twenty people were also hospitalised, but all were treated and discharged by Sunday, said Miller. Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, said the arrests – 116 on Friday 18 March and 128 on Saturday 19 March – were for various offences, including trespassing, being drunk in public and drug-related crimes, chiefly possession of ecstasy/MDMA with intent to supply.
A total of 244 people were arrested at last weekend’s Beyond Wonderland festival in at the San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore, California.
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