CATSKILL - More than 50 concertgoers were arrested on drug-related charges at the Mountain Jam Music Festival held at Hunter Mountain over the weekend, according to state police at Catskill and the Greene County Sheriff's Office.

The two agencies, working with Hunter Mountain Security, arrested 53 people on charges ranging from marijuana possession to possession of large quantities of narcotics, the sheriff's office and state police said Wednesday in a joint statement announcing the arrests.

State police and sheriff's deputies seized large quantities of marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, heroin, crystal meth, LSD, Ecstasy, hashish, hydrocodone and other illegal prescription medications, according to the joint statement.

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