Burning Man doesn't officially start until Sunday, but three people have already been arrested on suspicion of transporting large quantities of drugs out to the playa.

The Pershing County Sheriff's Office made two arrests Thursday.

"We stopped them for routine traffic violations and found a lot drugs," Sheriff Jerry Allen told the Reno Gazette Journal on Friday.

Yerington police on Wednesday separately confiscated large amounts of crack cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, LSD, Oxycodone, Vicodin, Valium and Xanax from a vehicle. Asked where he was headed, a 48-year-old suspect said “Burning Man,” according to police.

Allen said his team is bringing twice the amount of Narcan, 100 doses, to the annual countercultural festival in the Black Rock Desert. The quick-acting nasal sp

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