The sheriff posted photos on Twitter in which deputies visited alcohol from a party on 47th Street near Belt Parkway in which more than 180 people had gathered inside.
8/16/2020: Deputy sheriffs investigate illegal rave @ 266 47th Street, Brooklyn: more than 180 have been collected inside. Organizers were arrested & accused of multiple crimes for controlling alcohol drinking, possession of drugs & violation of local emergency law. Alcohol was seized. pic.twitter.com/oRraL0iWxl
– NYC SHERIFF (@NYCSHERIFF) August 16, 2020
The sheriff also posted photos of deputies breaking up another rave, just four blocks away on 51st Street at 2nd Avenue, where more than 100 people had gathered inside.
Organizers of both parties were accused of violating laws on alcohol control and local emergency law in place due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Organizers of the 47th Street rave were also charged with drug possession charges.
The busts come just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced there was an uptick of positive coronavirus cases in Sunset Park, where both ravens took place.
The uptick of 228 cases was found by conducting hyper-local testing through the Test & Trace Corps.
“We now have a warning light,” Blasio said.
The positive results came from 3,380 neighborhood residents who tested over two weeks and represented a 6.7% positive percentage, compared to the city-wide average of about 1%.
The city now offers expanded testing capacity, knocking on doors, and elevated telephones nearby and two mobile tests were set up in the area.
“This is a neighborhood of about 38,000 households, and it’s an area we can saturate to test people as soon as possible,” Blasio said.
The goal is to test all 38,000 households in Sunset Park.
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