15 Arrested at Rose Bowl Gold Cup Soccer Doubleheader

From City News Service

Police arrested 15 people at [Sunday's] CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer doubleheader at the Rose Bowl, including two fans who went onto the field near the end of Panama's 2-1 victory over Mexico.
  
All but one of the arrests were for misdemeanors, mainly for being drunk
in public or ticket scalping, Pasadena Police Department Deputy Chief Darryl
Qualls told City News Service.
  
A fan was hit by a beer can thrown by another fan in the stadium and the
alleged thrower was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a
felony, Qualls said.
  
The two fans who went onto the field were arrested on suspicion of
violating a section of Pasadena's municipal code, a misdemeanor, Qualls said.
  
The arrest total among the crowd announced at 56,822 was "not bad,"
Qualls said.
   
"When you look at the other events we have here, 15 is an average
number," Qualls said. "It was a warm day, so we did have some beer that was
consumed by the patrons before they got here and we saw the results of that."
  
A few disappointed Mexican fans threw cups and plastic water bottles
toward the field near the end of the game and after it ended.
   
"We tried our best to identify them and if we did, we would take them
for a misdemeanor," Qualls said.
  
From a police perspective, the Mexico-Panama game "was one of the
better events we've had here," Qualls said.
  
There were additional uniformed officers, bomb-sniffing dogs, "covert
resources" and police helicopters for the doubleheader, which began with
Martinique's 1-0 victory over Canada, Pasadena Police Department Chief Phillip
L. Sanchez said before the doubleheader.
  
Sanchez said he wanted fans "to be part of the security solution" and
call police if they saw something suspicious.
   
"A lot" of people called the police to report trouble, including
giving police, "some information that we used," Qualls said.
  
At halftime of the Mexico-Panama game, the Guinness world record for the
largest mariachi performance was set, with 566 performers, breaking the
previous mark of 555 set in 2010 in Tucson, Ariz., a CONCACAF official said.
  
Both games were part of group play in the tournament to determine the
men's soccer's regional champion of North America, Central America and the
Caribbean.
  
Substitute Fabrice Reuperne scored three minutes into stoppage time for
the only goal of the Canada-Martinique game.
  
Panama took a 1-0 lead on a seventh-minute penalty kick by Gabriel Torres.

Mexico tied the score in the second minute of stoppage time in the
first half on Marco Fabian's goal. Torres scored what proved to be the game-
winning goal three minutes into the 45-minute second half.

Were you at the games or in the area of the Rose Bowl Sunday? Did you see anyone being disruptive or possible breaking the law? Share in the comments.