One young woman was spotted kneeling on the ground with the spout end of a "beer funnel" (essentially a plastic hose with a funnel on one end) between her lips while a group of young men poured beer down the funnel and into her mouth while several passersby whooped and hollered encouragement. On the way into the venue early Saturday afternoon, music fans could be seen playing beer pong in the designated camping area. People passed out from too much sun and too much beer is a common site at Stagecoach, as are clearly drunken music fans weaving their way through the throngs of people on the festival grounds. At Coachella, drinking is relegated to designated beer gardens patrolled by festival security. Unlike Stagecoach’s indie-rock cousin the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which is also held at the Empire Polo Fields over the two weekends prior to Stagecoach, alcohol may be consumed anywhere on site. Darin Garrett of Los Angeles was convicted in December and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Last April, a parking lot attendant raped a 23-year-old Stagecoach festivalgoer after helping her find her car. The young woman sought help from staff at a first aid booth and was taken to a hospital. The teenager told police she was inside the facility Friday night when three men forced their way inside and assaulted her.Īn Indio police spokesman said the men fled before they could be identified.
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Coachella also draws about 20,000 more people a day than its country cousin.Īlso Friday, a 17-year-old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in one of the venues portable bathrooms. That’s nearly double the arrests made during the two-weekend Coachella festival earlier this month.
An Indio police spokesman said officers made nearly 60 booze-related arrests during the festival’s opening night on Friday. Authorities have made dozens of alcohol-related arrests during the first two days of this weekend’s Stagecoach Country Music Festival, where about 50,000 country music fans have spent the weekend in the desert heat of Indio.
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