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Man Arrested on Multiple Drug Charges at Outside Lands Festival

He remains jailed without bail pending a court appearance later this month.

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Overview

  • Officers responded around 3:40 p.m. on Aug. 8 to reports of narcotics sales near Fulton Street and 26th Avenue just outside the festival grounds.
  • Police with U.S. Park Rangers assistance detained 25-year-old Miles Vivirito of Frazier Park after a brief struggle and recovered suspected drugs on his person and in his vehicle.
  • San Francisco police seized what they described as ecstasy, ketamine and LSD intended for sale during the Outside Lands music festival.
  • Vivirito was booked into San Francisco County Jail on three counts of drug possession for sale, resisting arrest and a parole violation.
  • The arrest caps a week of intensified enforcement in Golden Gate Park that included the seizure of about 100 nitrous oxide tanks during the recent Grateful Dead concerts.