Man dies after music festival overdose

A man in his early 20s died Sunday night after he overdosed on drugs at an electronic music festival in Daly City Saturday, a police lieutenant said today. The man died at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, around 24 hours after he attended the "etd.POP 2010" music festival at the Cow Palace, Daly City police Lt. Jay Morena said. Police were originally concerned about reports the man suffered head trauma, but staff at San Francisco General Hospital said the man's head injury was insignificant, Morena said. Doctors determined the man died of a drug overdose. Ten other people who attended the music festival were hospitalized apparently as a result of tainted drugs, according to police. Officers arrested 68 adults and five juveniles for allegedly possessing or selling drugs at the annual music festival on Saturday. The event lasted from 6 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday. Members of the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force and the Daly City Police Department joined other city, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies in an undercover operation that led to the dozens of arrests. Police also seized 800 Ecstasy tablets with a street value of $16,000, and other drugs including LSD, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. About $5,000 in cash was also taken, officials said. Staff at county hospitals were concerned festival goers might have taken tainted drugs at the festival after 11 patients showed up exhibiting symptoms inconsistent with normal ecstasy overdoses, Morena said. Samples of the drugs were taken to a toxicologist at San Francisco General Hospital Sunday night for emergency testing, Morena said. "They worked on them all night, but I haven't heard the results," Morena said this morning. Last year's electronic music event netted the arrest of 76 adults and three juveniles, as well as the seizure of 901 Ecstasy tablets, marijuana, methamphetamine and more than $5,000 in cash, officials said.