Several hundred officers from various jurisdictions worked the event and provided traffic control along various routes.
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Las Vegas police arrested dozens of people, including 19 on felony charges, during the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
A ticket-holder to the Electric Daisy Carnival in a refund dispute with festival organizers made vague terrorism threats through social media, police said.
Officers made 34 felony arrests and six DUI arrests during the three-day festival that wrapped up Sunday at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Thirty-five people ended the second day of Electric Daisy Carnival behind bars — 33 on drug-related felony charges — according to Las Vegas police.
That includes 29 narcotics-related felony arrests, three misdemeanor arrests and one alcohol-related DUI arrest made between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, according from the Metropolitan Police Department. Last year on the Friday of EDC, Metro made 29 narcotics-related felony arrests and four misdemeanor arrests, including two arrests for battery on a police officer.
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday accuses the organizers of the Electric Daisy Carnival of willful neglect for the health and safety of a California man who died at the Las Vegas festival in 2015.
The 24-year-old man who died at the Electric Daisy Carnival early Sunday morning was identified Wednesday as Nicholas Austin Tom, of San Francisco.
