Minors with alcohol at SnowGlobe biggest problem for law enforcement

The 2016 South Lake Tahoe three-day long music festival, SnowGlobe, is over, and the thousands of of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) fans are headed home after enjoying themselves during the outdoor concert. Like with most festivals of this type, most of the arrests and citations issued by South Lake Tahoe Police Department (SLTPD), El Dorado County Sheriff's Office (EDSO), and Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) were for underage drinking.

Early tabulations show that during SnowGlobe this year there were 238 arrests, 148 of those were citations to minors in possession of alcohol.

South Tahoe Now reported the arrest figures from the first two days of the festival (story can be found here), with ABC and law enforcement providing the following figures for the final night on Saturday:

On December 31 there were 112 arrests, 109 arrests for ABC, 2 for SLTPD and 1 for EDSO-
76 - minors in possession of alcohol
17 - open containers
3 - possession of methamphetamine
5 - trespassing
3 - furnishing alcohol to a minor
1 - furnishing tobacco to a minor
1 - urinating in public
1 - transportation or selling of methamphetamine
1 - possession of controlled substance
1 - fake ID
1 - stopping on roadway
1 - trespassing and resisting arrest
1 - being drunk in public

In 2015, 104 citations were issued to minors in possession of alcohol. In 2016, there were 148.

Also in 2016 there was a total of 17 medical transports to Barton Hospital from the event, down two from the previous year.

The contract for SnowGlobe to be in South Lake Tahoe currently runs through 2017.