Crime & Safety

10 Teens Hospitalized Due to Alcohol, Drugs at Jones Beach Concert

BREAKING: Three of the teens are still in intensive care following a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa concert Tuesday night.

WANTAGH, NY – Ten teenagers were hospitalized, with three of them still in intensive care, after a rash of alcohol poisonings and drug overdoses at a Jones Beach concert Tuesday night.

The Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa "High Road Tour" came to Long Island, and brought with it a bevy of troubles. Ten teenagers were taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow from the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh.

Seven of the teenagers were treated and released from the hospital the same night. Three were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit, according to hospital spokeswoman Shelley Lotenberg. She said those teens may be released Wednesday or Thursday.

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Lotenberg could not say what drugs were involved.

According to CBS, another 30 people were treated at the scene.

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"It’s just the law of numbers," State Parks Police Sgt. Manny Vilar told CBS. "Ten cops and 15,000 people does not equate to effective policing and this unfortunately is the end result of that. This is problematic."

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