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Country music festival coming to Cochise County this March

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COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. (KGUN) — As soon as Del Thola bought his Benson ranch back in December, he knew he was going to bring a music festival to Cochise County.

The 20-acre land was home to livestock, which is evident through the various stalls and barns on the property. Come the middle of March, Thola and his family will have a large open piece of land specifically for country music fans to gather and have a good time.

“I grew up on country music,” he shared. “I wanted something to do for Cochise County and the Benson area, but the response has been phenomenal and I was not expecting that at all.”

The Cochise Country Music Festival is scheduled to take place Friday, March 17 to Sunday, March 19 and will feature one headliner per day.

Joe Nichols will perform Friday; Sawyer Brown plans to headline on Saturday and Clay Walker is scheduled for Sunday evening.

Thola said he worked with agencies out of Tucson to help find artists to come for the festival. While the event is called a country music festival, the lineup includes blue grass artists too.

“I think it’s more of a down-home festival,” Thola said. “We’re trying to keep it low key. I want everyone to come, relax and have a good time.”

Although public knowledge of the event is fairly new, the community is already welcoming it.

“I didn’t think the response would be as good as it was,” Thola said. “It’s kind of gone a little bit bigger than I was planning actually.”

He has a maximum of 10,000 tickets for sale and is expecting the festival to near capacity all three days.

Thola also plans on setting up vendors and food trucks on the property throughout the weekend.

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Alexis Ramanjulu is a reporter in Cochise County for KGUN 9. She began her journalism career reporting for the Herald/Review in Sierra Vista, which she also calls home. Share your story ideas with Alexis by emailing alexis.ramanjulu@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook, or Twitter.



Phones Stolen at Escape Music Festival Recovered by Pair of Friends – NBC Los Angeles

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Downey Police recovered nearly 100 cell phones, all believed to have been stolen from the same event this weekend.

Dozens of people came to Downey to recover stolen phones today. They were all pick-pocketed Friday night, and many believed they’d never see their phone again, but thanks to some detective work from a pair of friends, a lot of people have their phones back.

It all started at the Escape Music Festival in San Bernardino on Friday night.

“A lot of people come for the music and a lot of people come to just enjoy themselves,” said Amir Anderson, whose friend had his phone stolen.

“He literally just had it as he was walking out and he’s like, ‘I can’t find it,'” said Anderson.

Anderson then had his friend us the “Find My” feature on the iPhone, where they constantly shared their location with each other. That’s when they noticed his friend’s missing cell phone was on the move and decided to follow it.

“So we head down the 10, they took the 605, from the 605 to the 5, and they got off on Norwalk,” he explained.

After driving 60 miles, they ended up in Downey and noticed the phone was no longer moving, so they called the police.

“We let the operator know the location is staying still now, we think they got out and got in the house. We don’t see the car, but the phone is refreshing and saying it’s here,” recalled Anderson.

Once the officers arrived they made a discovery, according to Anderson, “She walked back to the grass, and they both moved the flowers and picked up two big trash bags filled with phones.”

The officer found 92 cell phones, including Amir’s friend’s, in the two big garbage bags.

On Tuesday, dozens of people packed a lobby at Downey Police Department, trying to recover their phones after each one of them was pick-pocketed on Friday night in San Bernardino.

“Somebody definitely pick-pocketed me, because I remember having it before I walked into the event,” said Dereck Nguyen, one of the victims of the theft.

“We’re in a crowd, so I thought they were trying to weave their way through. I didn’t think somebody was pick-pocketing me,” recalled another victim of the Friday night theft, Adriana Zepeda.

Shelley Quash and her friend were both victims of the theft, “She was like, ‘Oh hey, why is your fanny pack open?’ and then she was like, ‘Ok, phone check,’ and then we were looking through our bag and it was just gone.”

But now, thanks to technology and a persistent pick-pocket victim, dozens of people have their phones back.

“A lot of people were congratulating me, a lot were thanking, some people were messaging me and said that their phone was there, so it feels good to have helped a whole bunch of people,” said Anderson.

Downey Police did not make an arrest. In fact, since the pick-pocketing happened in San Bernardino, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office will take over the investigation.

If you had your phone stolen:

  1. Come to Downey Police to recover it.
  2. File a police report with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office.



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