Just weeks after the controversial Rainbow Family of Living Light settled on a location for their 50th anniversary gathering, the arrests, citations and warnings are already well underway.
” – is scheduled between July 1 and July 7 at Adams Park in the Routt National Forest near Craig, but people began showing up from across the country days in advance. As of Thursday, about 4,100 people were already on site, Hilary Markin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service, said. AboutLaw enforcement officials expressed concern about the gathering months ago and already they’re confronting some members of the Rainbow Family.
Those enforcement actions include damage to natural resources, narcotics possession or distribution, aggravated assault on a peace officer and a felon in possession of a firearm., yielded a total of about 600 enforcement actions, Markin said.Rainbow Family settles on Colorado site for 50th anniversary of first peace and love gathering
So the number of law enforcement encounters is expected to increase with each passing day, Markin said. Up to 500 new people are arriving to the site each day and some will stay for weeks to help clean up the area. Rainbow Family gatherings often pair with drug use and sometimes sexual assault, past reports indicate. However, many members bristle at those depictions. Past meetings in Colorado led to an increase of illegal camping and trespassing charges.
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