GILROY
– City police arrested a 15-year-old Gilroy boy scalping Garlic
Festival tickets for less than the $10 full admission price Sunday
in a parking lot off Santa Teresa Boulevard.
GILROY – City police arrested a 15-year-old Gilroy boy scalping Garlic Festival tickets for less than the $10 full admission price Sunday in a parking lot off Santa Teresa Boulevard.
The tickets weren’t stolen or counterfeited, according to police Sgt. Kurt Svardal, in charge of Garlic Festival security this past weekend as a volunteer.
Police could not say where the boy got the tickets of how many he sold before getting caught.
“I don’t think he sold a whole lot,” Svardal said. “It wasn’t like a couple years ago, where (people) were counterfeiting the tickets.. … That was a much bigger story.”
At the 2002 Garlic Festival, police arrested three people for counterfeiting volunteer tickets and selling them to festivalgoers outside the gates for $5 each, half the price of a real adult ticket.
Svardal said more than 400 people were admitted with the bogus tickets that year before an alert volunteer bought one and showed it to officials. The sellers were arrested shortly afterward.
