Coachella arrest numbers

Police arrested 203 people across Coachella’s two April 2026 weekends in Indio, a slight drop from 223 arrests last year. (ktla.com) The Indio Police Department reported 106 arrests during the festival’s second weekend alone, including 52 for alleged drug possession, 13 for false identification and eight for public intoxication. (cbsnews.com) Police made 97 arrests during the first weekend, including 59 for drug possession, 14 for false identification and three for drug or alcohol intoxication. Officers also issued 32 citations that weekend for unlawful use of a disabled placard. (cbsnews.com) Across both weekends, police issued 85 citations for unlawful use of a disability placard, a separate tally from the arrest count. Sgt. Abe Plata told the Orange County Register, as quoted by KTLA, that most attendees caused no trouble. (ktla.com) The numbers are part of the annual public accounting that follows Coachella, one of the country’s largest music festivals. The Empire Polo Club site has a maximum capacity of about 125,000 people per day, according to KTLA’s report on the police totals. (ktla.com) This year’s total stayed above the 193 arrests reported in 2024, even as it fell from 2025. The most common alleged offenses in 2026 were public intoxication, illegal drug possession and fake identification. (ktla.com) Coachella’s policing footprint carries over into the next festival at the same venue. Stagecoach was scheduled for April 24-26, 2026, and KTLA reported that Indio police logged 151 arrests there in 2025, up 20% from 2024. (ktla.com) For 2026, the arrest count closes out Coachella with a familiar pattern: most festivalgoers passed through without incident, while police concentrated arrests in a smaller set of drug, intoxication and identification cases. (ktla.com)