Counterfeit Drug Arrest at Maine Festival

The Lewiston, Maine Sun Journal reported on August 17th, 2010 that twenty individuals from around the country were indicted by a grand jury for selling and possessing illegal and counterfeit drugs at the Nateva Music and Camping Festival last month.

The four-day Nateva Festival, the first event in what is anticipated to be an annual series, took place at the Oxford Fairgrounds over the Fourth of July weekend. It featured performances by 51 bands. More than 8,000 people attended the event, and police arrested or issued summonses to 34 concertgoers in total.

According to court documents, several busts occurred when security personnel searched concert-goers at entrances to the fairgrounds. Agents from the Main Drug Enforcement Agency indicted a fifty year old participant from Hollywood, CA for trafficking in and furnishing counterfeit drugs, in addition to a number of indictments for illegal drugs.