Expecting mayhem at a concert with thousands of largely young music fans in the heat of Indio? Sorry to disappoint.
The ninth annual Coachella Music Festival has been fairly free of arrests and medical emergencies.
Ben Guitron, public information officer with the Indio Police Department, said there had been 29 total arrests Friday and 9 arrests as of 6 p.m. Saturday. All the arrests were drug and alcohol related, he said.
“You still have those challenging few,” he said. But overall, he said, the numbers appear to be down.
The department introduced “amnesty bins” at last year’s show where fans in possession of drugs entering the concert could turn over their drugs no questions asked.
So far, no one had overdosed.
Guitron said Riverside County Fire had transported three people to the hospital on Saturday..