NSW: Police seize drugs at Sydney music festival

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-2008
NSW: Police seize drugs at Sydney music festival

SYDNEY, Feb 17 AAP - Sixty-eight people have been busted for possessing illicit drugs
at a Sydney music festival that drew a crowd of 40,000.

Police used drug-detection dogs and high-visibility crowd control measures for 14 hours
at the Good Vibrations festival in Centennial Park yesterday.

The checks ended at midnight and 68 people were found with drugs, including cannabis,
amphetamines, cocaine and ecstasy, police said.

Most were charged with drug offences and some issued with cannabis cautions.

In one case, police allege a 34-year-old was found with 23 ecstasy tablets and cannabis.

The man, from Chester Hill, has been charged with possessing and supplying an indictable
quantity of a prohibited drug.

He is to appear at Waverley Local Court on March 12.

Another 12 were charged with offences including offensive behaviour, resisting arrest
and assaulting police.

Park rangers issued 140 infringements to people trespassing at the event.

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