The annual Burning Man festival hasn’t even begun, and cops in Nevada are already busting folks for trying to smuggle massive amounts of drugs onto the Black Rock Desert playa.
The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office arrested two people Thursday , reports the Reno Gazette Journal.
“We stopped them for routine traffic violations and found a lot drugs,” Sheriff Jerry Allen told the paper Friday.
The nine-day debauchery fest doesn’t officially get underway until Sunday.
Police in nearby Yerington separately arrested someone on Wednesday, and confiscated his drugs.
The 48-year-old was caught with large quantities of crack cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, LSD, Oxycodone, Vicodin, Valium and Xanax.
When asked where he was headed with the drugs, he came clean, and said “Burnin Man,” according to the report.
For this year’s festival, cops have doubled the amount of Narcan that’ll be on hand — to 100 doses.
The nasal spray blocks the effect that opioids have on the nervous system, reversing fatal overdoses.
More than 20 sheriffs will be assigned to the festival site.
Rains are set to spoil some of the forthcoming Burning Man festivities.
Thousands of people are expected to gather in the area.
Organizers said they expect attendance levels to return to pre-pandemic levels with this year’s rendition.
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