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City: Jay-Z festival fence jumpers will be punished

The Nutter administration said Tuesday that anyone caught sneaking into Jay Z’s Made in America concert festival on the Ben Franklin Parkway Labor Day weekend could be subject to charges, including defiant trespass, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and others.

    by Sean Collins Walsh
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The Nutter administration said Tuesday that anyone caught sneaking into Jay Z’s Made in America concert festival on the Ben Franklin Parkway Labor Day weekend could be subject to<NO1><NO> charges, including defiant trespass, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and others.
Mayoral spokesman Mark McDonald said that the ticketed concert area will be walled off by two concentric 8-foot-high fences with security guards patrolling in between them. The outer fence will have signs informing potential trespassers that they could be prosecuted, he said, and the second will be covered with a tarp to prevent onlookers from seeing into the concert.
“The rational individual will think twice before doing anything inappropriate,” McDonald said. “But I think there may be a person who thinks that jumping the perimeter fence makes sense. They will, depending on the situation, they will be taken into custody first and foremost and then depending on the situation they may be charged with one or more of three different charges.”
Lt. Ray Evers, a police spokesman, told the Daily News Monday that the department did not plan to arrest people caught trying to sneak into the show. Evers has since revised that position and agreed on Tuesday with the plan as detailed by McDonald.

The Nutter administration said Tuesday that anyone caught sneaking into Jay Z's Made in America concert festival on the Ben Franklin Parkway Labor Day weekend could be subject to charges, including defiant trespass, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and others.

Mayoral spokesman Mark McDonald said that the ticketed concert area will be walled off by two concentric 8-foot-high fences with security guards patrolling in between them.

The outer fence will have signs informing potential trespassers that they could be prosecuted, he said, and the second will be covered with a tarp to prevent onlookers from seeing into the concert.

"The rational individual will think twice before doing anything inappropriate," McDonald said. "But I think there may be a person who thinks that jumping the perimeter fence makes sense. They will, depending on the situation, they will be taken into custody first and foremost and then depending on the situation they may be charged with one or more of three different charges."

Lt. Ray Evers, a police spokesman, told the Daily News Monday that the department did not plan to arrest people caught trying to sneak into the show. Evers has since revised that position and agreed on Tuesday with the plan as detailed by McDonald.