Las Vegas police arrested dozens of people, including 19 on felony charges, during the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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A total of 65 arrests were made by Las Vegas police at this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival, 30 fewer than last year.
Las Vegas police said 135,225 people attended the third day of the Electric Daisy Carnival and 28 felony arrests were made.
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.
Las Vegas police and emergency crews log 1,090 medical responses, transfer 15 festival goers to hospital.
Marco Landin was dressed as a dragonfly, on stilts and in the middle of his choreography before he was attacked on the first night of the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas.
The Electric Daisy Carnival has come to an end, but some of the festival-goers will be dealing with the consequences of their actions after Monday morning.