Crime & Safety
Arrests Increase At 2024 Stagecoach Country Music Festival
During this year's event 112 arrests were made, an uptick of more than 25% compared to the 2023 festival.
INDIO, CA – The number of arrests made during the 2024 Stagecoach Country Music Festival last weekend increased by more than 25% compared to last year's iteration, police said Wednesday.
Beginning Thursday morning, when campers first started to arrive at the festival site, the Indio Police Department made 112 arrests, according to department spokesman Ben Guitron. That number was up from 98 during the 2023 festival.
In total, 63 people were arrested for drug-, alcohol-, or intoxication- related offenses, according to Guitron, and 49 were arrested for fake IDs.
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Citations also increased from last year, Guitron said. The department issued 83 in total, all for unlawfully using a disabled person placard, compared to 65 such citations in 2023.
None of the parties taken into custody or cited were identified. There were no serious or violent offenses documented during the event.
