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Authorities arrested more than 400 people and took five to hospital at the Nocturnal Wonderland music festival in San Bernardino, California this Labor Day weekend. During the three-day event that took place in Devore, 60 miles away from Los Angeles, 428 arrests were made by police and five individuals were also transported to the hospital for various medical reasons, according to a series of press releases from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.People were arrested for offenses ranging from drug possession and drug sales to underage attendance and assault and battery, the LA Times reported. The Sheriff's department said that on the festival's first night, police arrested 111 people during security screening at the entrance to the festival. One of those individuals was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence and crashing into a deputy sheriff and his motorcycle. The officer was not injured in the incident.Following the deaths of three attendees at HARD Summer in July, members of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors are pushing to revisit a ban on rave-like events at the San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore.Follow Alexander on Twitter.
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