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Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS]
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Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival
June 8, 2006 - ljworld.com

At least six people have been arrested since Wednesday morning on drug-related charges, as police deploy extra patrols and a check lane geared toward the start of the 15,000-person Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival.

The Kansas Highway Patrol, which set up a three-day check lane on the exit of westbound Interstate 70 at Kansas Highway 10, arrested the following:

• Three men from Des Moines, Iowa in their early 20s were arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell LSD, and possession of LSD. All were released on $4,000 bond later in the evening and ordered to appear in court June 20.

• A 21-year-old Ithaca, NY man was booked into jail Wednesday evening for possession of marijuana, two counts of possession of a drug that wasn't specified in jail records, and failure to pay a drug-tax stamp. He was released on $2,500 bond and ordered to appear in court June 20.

• An 18-year-old man from Cream Ridge, NJ was booked into jail early this morning for possession of LSD, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1,500.

In addition to those arrests, the Douglas County Sheriff's office arrested a 24-year-old Aspen, Colo. man Wednesday night or early Thursday morning at the festival campgrounds for possession with intent to sell mushrooms and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond is set at $5,500.

The sheriff's office also seized 100 miniature nitrous oxide tanks and a medium-sized tank at the campgrounds Wednesday night, spokeswoman Lt. Kari Wempe said. A deputy happened upon both the tanks and the mushrooms and saw them in plain sight, she said.

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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: veggie]
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These pigs just loooooooooove the $$$ they get from all of these music festivals. Fuckers. :nonono:

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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: veggie]
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...and failure to pay a drug-tax stamp.


The stamps that don't exsist...?

I love it.


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: veggie]
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Fuck kansas. The same state that was the only state to harass those cyclists for med pot dudes.

I'll be skipping Wakarusa :thumbdown:


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: veggie]
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I wonder how Tennessee will be...


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: dblaney]
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One more reason why I need to get the fuck out of this state.


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: dblaney]
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Hopefully not bad at all. Going in, I won't be concerned because I will not be carrying anything in to Bonnaroo; coming out of Bonnaroo, well, if all goes well that could be another story.


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: demiu5]
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you could always stay a few days after the festival until things have died down couldnt you?


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: veggie]
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i can't believe any of them got out on bail...

back in the early days of phish tour we used to get arrested a lot, and just skip out on court... then around 98 they started holding people till trial... because so many of us would run off...


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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: veggie]
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Isn't wakarusa held on public land?

there's the problem right there.

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Re: Nitrous tanks, LSD, mushrooms seized around festival [KS] [Re: deryl]
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No Doubt. I don't think I'd even go to a "Public" gathering....Private is where it's at!!

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Police activity, arrests increase at Wakarusa [Re: veggie]
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jun/13/police_activity_arrests_increase_wakarusa/?city_local

Police activity, arrests increase at Wakarusa

By Eric Weslander

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Wearing flip-flops and an Ithaca College T-shirt, 20-year-old Max Winer arrived at the Douglas County Jail Monday afternoon to wait for a friend to have his first court appearance.

His friend had been arrested Friday morning, the second day of the Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival at Clinton State Park, after being caught smoking marijuana at his camp site.

An officer also found psilocybin mushrooms in his friend’s backpack, Winer said.

“I feel horrible. He’s been in there since Friday,” Winer said. “He missed all the music. It’s kind of been the trip from hell. ... I’m not coming back to Kansas ever again.”

It was just one piece of the legal aftermath that awaits now that the four-day festival has ended.

According to Douglas County Jail records, more than 80 people from 28 states were arrested on alcohol and drug violations during the festival, which police had warned would be more heavily patrolled than in past years.

Steve Robson of Ace Bail Bonds estimated he’d written between 10 and 15 bonds during the weekend and earned about $5,000 in commissions.

Typically, the people arrested were out-of-state residents who judges consider a higher risk for not appearing in court, so Robson required them or their parents to put the entire amount of the bond upfront on a credit card, plus his 10 percent fee, he said.

“If they go to court, they get to keep their money,” he said. “If they don’t, I just pay the court.”

Robson said two of his clients had had their cars impounded because of the civil forfeiture laws associated with drug-dealing crimes.

“I talked to several kids that lost $800 or $900 they had on them” through drug-money seizures, he said.

So many people were arrested that prosecutors have arranged for a special docket at 1:30 p.m. Friday to formally charge many of them.

“I would say we’ve probably seen a doubling of the arrests from last year. That’s just off-hand,” Dist. Atty. Charles Branson said. “We knew that there was going to be a bulge coming through the system.”

In all, police arrested or removed 144 people from the park during the weekend, but not all of those were arrested and booked into jail.

Some of the details of the arrests:

• At least 25 of those arrested had a marijuana-related charge.

• 12 had an LSD-related charge.

• Six had a cocaine-related charge.

• 47 people were arrested for being a minor in possession of alcohol. In most cases, officers from the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control made the arrest. At first, they were given $100 bonds, but on Friday afternoon, prosecutors decided to let all people arrested for underage drinking out of jail without having to post bond money up front.

“We were afraid, in consulting with the sheriff’s department, that they were going to start to be looking at some capacity issues,” Branson said. “I didn’t want someone sitting in jail with an MIP.”

• Those arrested came from the following states: Kansas (14), Missouri (9), Wisconsin (8), Colorado (7), Oklahoma (6), Illinois (5), New Mexico (4), Iowa (3), New Jersey (3), New York (3), Vermont (2), Pennsylvania (2), Kentucky (2), Nebraska (2), Mississippi (2), Georgia (2), West Virginia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Montana, Connecticut, California, Indiana, North Carolina and Louisiana (1 each).

Apparently, many people didn’t get the message law enforcement had sent out before the festival: Leave the illegal drugs at home.

“It’s been this way since the ’60s. It’s the same type of people,” Winer said. “They want to enhance their musical experience, so they’ll do what they will.”


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Re: Police activity, arrests increase at Wakarusa [Re: motaman]
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“It’s been this way since the ’60s. It’s the same type of people,” Winer said. “They want to enhance their musical experience, so they’ll do what they will.”


:lolz0rz: :lol: :rofl2: :rofl: Yeah, and so what's the problem?


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Re: Police activity, arrests increase at Wakarusa [Re: Microcosmatrix]
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police state

8 from WI, none from MN  :frown:

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Wakarusa arrestees have their day in court [Re: veggie]
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jun/17/wakarusa_arrestees_have_their_day_court/?city_local

Wakarusa arrestees have their day in court

Busy docket generates $11K in fines, fees

By Eric Weslander

Saturday, June 17, 2006

The local courts took on the feel of a trading pit Friday, as dozens of people busted at the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival wheeled and dealed with prosecutors to get their cases resolved.

Charged with a misdemeanor? For a $200 fine and $117 in court costs, you could plead guilty or no contest and walk away with no jail time or probation.

For an additional $100, you could get prosecutors to drop the charge by granting a diversion. That offer was good only for those with no criminal history and able to pay the entire sum on the spot.

Roughly 70 people were scheduled to appear at Friday’s District Court docket, which was set up especially for those arrested at Wakarusa. The smell of patchouli oil floated through the hallways. Signs directed defendants to one of two courtrooms based on their last names.

“Our objective is just to handle the volume,” Dist. Atty. Charles Branson said.

Branson gave the following figures:

• Thirty-one people had their cases resolved — almost all of them through a diversion, but a few through pleas.

One man, for example, was charged with possession of marijuana, LSD and drug paraphernalia — all misdemeanors — as well as a felony drug-tax violation. Prosecutors agreed to drop the felony charge if he pleaded no contest to the three misdemeanors. He agreed and was ordered to pay $717 total.

• Eleven people failed to appear and will have warrants issued for their arrest.

• Twelve people said they planned to contest the charges and had their cases continued.

•About 15 people appeared but were told they weren’t going to be charged Friday. Branson said most of those cases were felony drug cases in which prosecutors were awaiting lab tests.

“We had to send the mushrooms and LSD to the lab — the ecstasy and all that,” he said.

Judge Robert Fairchild heard cases in one courtroom; attorney Angela Stoller, acting as a judge pro tem, heard cases in another.

Jonathan Tunney, 18, Chicago, was charged with possession of marijuana after being caught in a surprise Kansas Highway Patrol check lane near the festival.

He drove from Chicago to Lawrence on Thursday to take care of his case. He left the courthouse Friday with diversion papers rolled up in his hand and $417 less in his pocket.

“I’m happy it turned out like this, but I think it was bogus in general,” he said.

Branson estimated about 40 percent of the cases heard Friday involved minors caught in possession of alcohol. Prosecutors warned people that if they were convicted of that charge, the state would suspend their driving privileges for 30 days.

They also warned people that a conviction would be added to their criminal history, turning up on background checks.

Based on Branson’s figures, the docket generated more than $11,000 in fines, court costs and diversion fees. The fines go to the state general fund, the court costs go to the court and the diversion fees go to the county’s general fund, Branson said.


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Suspected dealers gave up $10,000 in drug taxes during Wakarusa festival [Re: veggie]
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jul/19...wak/?city_local

Suspected dealers gave up $10,000 in drug taxes during Wakarusa festival

By Eric Weslander

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Kansas revenue agents take in about $1 million a year in cash or property seized from suspected drug dealers, with or without criminal charges being filed.

About $10,000 was collected that way from the increased law enforcement at this year’s Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival, according to tax warrants filed last week in Douglas County District Court.

At least 13 people from around the country had suspected drug money seized during the festival weekend.

The biggest cash stash taken was $2,555, from Patrick J. Stanley, 25, of Delbarton, W.Va., who was arrested for possession with intent to sell LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.

The tax cases are just part of the ongoing legal aftermath of the festival. At least 10 people still have felony drug-dealing charges against them, including 28-year-old Dustin D. Russell, of Albuquerque, N.M., who rode a train to Lawrence last week to make it to a court date in Douglas County District Court.

Russell is charged with possession of LSD, a misdemeanor, and possession with intent to sell LSD, a felony. He plans to challenge the dealing charge on the grounds that his tent was searched illegally, but he admits he had the drug for his personal use.

“It’s part of the scene,” he said.

The drug tax is separate from any criminal charges. Stanley, for example, was charged with two felony drug-dealing crimes but was allowed to plead to misdemeanor possession charges.

“The evidence, after the charging, was not sufficient for the charges,” Dist. Atty. Charles Branson said.

Judge Michael Malone sentenced Stanley to a year in jail but freed him after 21 days behind bars. Branson’s office recommended a $200 fine as part of the plea deal, but Malone waived it.

The drug tax, enacted in 1987, was a way to ensure that people who dealt drugs paid some taxes because they don’t collect sales taxes or pay income-tax on their profits. If dealers are caught with a certain amount of a drug — more than an ounce of marijuana or more than 10 doses of LSD, for example — and don’t have a “Kansas Drug Tax Stamp” affixed for the proper amount, the state can assess the tax against them.

Someone with 100 doses of LSD, for example, would owe $4,000 in taxes. But historically, the state only collects about one-tenth of the drug-tax amounts it assesses.

For example, Ryan Matthew Dabkowski, a 23-year-old Connecticut man arrested during the festival for possession with intent to sell marijuana, was assessed a $47,200 tax, but agents seized $160 from him and most likely will leave it at that.

“For the out-of-state people, generally speaking, what we get at the time is all we’re going to get out of them,” said Phil Wilkes, an attorney for the Kansas Department of Revenue. “We don’t have the means to go after them.”

Dabkowski has not been charged in criminal court.

Three-fourths of the money collected through drug-tax seizures goes back to the police agencies that made the bust. Lt. Doug Woods, of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said there are no specific plans yet for how to use the money seized at the Wakarusa festival, but that the money seized by the local drug squad historically has been used for surveillance equipment such as night-vision goggles, audio surveillance equipment or rental cars.

Since the law began, the state has sold about $33,000 worth of drug tax stamps. Wilkes said he doesn’t know exactly who’s buying them, in part because the law requires the purchase of the stamps to be anonymous.

“I’m going to say that probably somewhere between a fourth and a half of those were collectors,” Wilkes said. “I have no way of knowing for sure.”


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Re: Suspected dealers gave up $10,000 in drug taxes during Wakarusa festival [Re: motaman]
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> Someone with 100 doses of LSD, for example, would owe $4,000 in taxes.

That's well over 10 times what 100 hits is worth.

> But historically, the state only collects about one-tenth of the drug-tax amounts it assesses.

No shit. If you're trying to charge a 1,000% tax you're obviously not going to collect it.

Could they really be stupid enough to think that acid is worth $40 a hit?


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Re: Suspected dealers gave up $10,000 in drug taxes during Wakarusa festival [Re: fastfred]
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<<“I’m going to say that probably somewhere between a fourth and a half of those were collectors,” Wilkes said. “I have no way of knowing for sure.”>>

I'm going to say that probably all of the stamps purchased were by collectors.


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