SAN FRANCISCO -- A musician's performance at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco was canceled after police detained him and two others about the alleged sale of concert wristbands.
Fantastic Negrito's scheduled Saturday afternoon set during the three-day festival in Golden Gate Park was nixed, he said, because police handcuffed him for three hours after an intern tried scalping entry passes for the performers' area on Craigslist.
Fantastic Negrito, who is 47-year-old Xavier Dphrepaulezz, denied via Twitter that he had anything to do with the transaction.
The intern told San Francisco police that he initiated the sale on his own, according to Dphrepaulezz. Police kept Dphrepaulezz cuffed with his hands behind his back, which was a painful position because of a pin in his shoulder from a car accident, he told the Bay Area News Group.
The San Francisco police released a brief statement on Saturday about the encounter, but it didn't address Dphrepaulezz's claims. They said that event organizers tipped them off about an unauthorized sale.
"While acting on a tip from Another Planet Entertainment, San Francisco Police Officers stopped and detained three subjects on the corner of 25th Ave and Fulton Street pertaining to someone selling non-transferable artist bands," the statement from Officer Carlos Manfredi said. The intersection is adjacent to Golden Gate Park.
The other men detained at a temporary police post in the venue were John Beckmeyer, 22, and Alistar Monroe, 44, according to police. They were all released after getting citations for "peddling without a permit," according to Manfredi.
Beckmeyer is the intern and Monroe is a friend of the musician, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Police claimed the men were detained for 90 minutes, not three hours, and that they didn't know Dphrepaulezz was a performer until after they stopped him, the Chronicle reported. It was approximately noon when police encountered the trio, Manfredi's statement said, and Fantastic Negrito was due onstage at 2:55 p.m.
By Sunday, the Fantastic Negrito page on the Outside Lands website had been deleted.
"In all circumstances, we are most concerned with the safety and security of our attendees, artists and staff," the festival organizers said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "We continuously look to protect and maintain the integrity of our credentialing system, and are so sorry that the artist was not able to perform due to this unfortunate breach."
San Francisco police declined to answer HuffPost's inquiries for additional information.
In other tweets, Dphrepaulezz said that police and the intern had made a mistake. He forgave the intern and said that he would never play again if police produced evidence that he had been involved.