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As we are all music lovers, this is serious folks - the police state is upon us. Please read and discuss...
COVENTRY, N.Y. -- A music festival promoter and the owner of a campground where a New Jersey man died last month have been charged in the death.
The two were charged Saturday in connection with the drug overdose deaths of a Raritan Township, N.J., teen and another man last month, New York State Police reported.
Adam Meisner, 19, was found floating in a lake on May 22. Anthony Scanlon, 33, of Sidney, was found dead in a tent by paramedics and state officials responding to the Echo Lake Campground.
The Chenango County medical examiner ruled that both men died as a result of drug overdoses.
The campground, about 55 miles south of Syracuse, was host to Gramma Joan's Spring Fling the weekend the men died.
Festival promoter Joan P. Decker, 63, of Morris, and campground owner Sayed Khalifa, 67, of Afton, each were charged with two counts of criminal nuisance, police said.
Decker and Khalifa ignored festivalgoers' underage drinking and illegal drug use during the event, police said.
The two face a maximum six months in prison if convicted.
Meisner's father, Richard, told The Express-Times of Easton, Pa., that he doesn't want the music festival shut down because of his son's death.
"I think the last thing my son would want is them closing a music fest on account of him," Richard Meisner said.
He said Wednesday that his family is still trying to understand the circumstances of Adam Meisner's death.
Authorities have not determined what drugs were involved in the deaths. And police still have no idea how Adam Meisner's body got into the lake. An autopsy ruled out drowning as a cause of death.
Adam Meisner graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School last June. He worked with his father at On Site Fleet Services in East Brunswick, N.J., and was enlisting in the Navy at the time of his death.
A snowboarder and water skier, he was a summer volunteer in Maine with a Flemington Presbyterian Church group.
First of all it's sad that these guys died. But, how can they hold these people responsible?! If law enforcement starts doing this everywhere festivals will soon be a thing of the past. Then what...all concerts gone?! Some stupid kid od's at a show and the owner of the venue and promoter get put in jail?! Bad news...
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