The Los Angeles County fairgrounds sits on land mostly owned by the county and is managed by a nonprofit association. About 100 people were arrested on suspicion of carrying fake identification, authorities said.Īfter this summer’s deaths, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously convened a task force to examine rave safety. Authorities in San Bernardino arrested about 180 people at Escape: Psycho Circus.Īt the Pomona rave - which featured headliners such as Skrillex, Deadmau5 and Hot Chip - most were arrested on suspicion of public intoxication, possession of illegal drugs or being under the influence of a controlled substance, police said in a statement. The Pomona Police Department said 310 people were arrested during the Hard Day of the Dead festival. Nearly 500 people were arrested at the two electronic music festivals in Pomona and San Bernardino. Nine were in Southern California and five in the Las Vegas area. There have been at least 20 drug-related deaths among people who went to raves nationwide run by Los Angeles-area companies since 2006, according to a Los Angeles Times review of coroner records and interviews. But those events stopped being held at the Coliseum in 2011 following the drug-overdose death of a 15-year-old girl who attended the Electric Daisy Carnival rave in 2010.

Raves were once more commonly held closer to downtown Los Angeles, such as at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Sports Arena. Several emergency room physicians have said that raves threaten public health, and overwhelm hospitals with concertgoers suffering from seizures, comas or other problems, some fatal, because of illicit drugs. Raves have been under renewed scrutiny since the two young women who attended, one aged 18 and the other 19, died of apparent drug overdoses after attending the Hard Day of the Dead rave at the Los Angeles County fairgrounds, also known as the Fairplex, which sits on county-owned land. The Pomona rave was held by Live Nation, and the San Bernardino event was organized by Insomniac, a Live Nation subsidiary. “Bringing people with drugs into our community: it’s illegal and immoral.” John, 68, who has lived near the Pomona fairgrounds for 15 years. “Who wants to live near this?” said Judith St.

Neighbors of the Halloween-themed music festival said the Pomona event snarled traffic and generated too much noise. Chidester said the drop in serious injuries at the event was probably a result of fewer attendees, an increase in the minimum age for entry from 18 to 21 and heightened security.

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