Federal Agents in Wild Costumes Are Swarming the Burning Man Festival This Week Erin Fuchs - SFGate
go to original August 28, 2013

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The freedom-loving hippie "burners" attending the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev. this week may believe they're communing in a happy cocoon with no laws.

In reality, undercover federal agents from all over the West are swarming the "temporary community" as they do every year and busting people for doing or selling drugs, local attorney and former cop Arnold Brock tells Business Insider. These agents do whatever they can to fit in at the 50,000-person festival, which Brock called a "unique event" that's kind of like Woodstock.

"Last year we had an undercover agent dressed up as catwoman," Brock says. "They will do whatever they do to ... ferret out what they are considering criminal activity."

Brock has an entire page on his website devoted to the "Burning-Man Related Arrests" that can happen to out-of-towners attending the festival. The festival goers might have their guard down and could be easy targets.

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