Last modified: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:38 AM EDT

No ticket, no Buffett

FOXBORO - Police say Jimmy Buffett fans without tickets to Sunday's Gillette Stadium concert will be turned away from the parking lots.

Police also will order the lots opened at the normal 3:30 p.m. time - not earlier, as was the case at another concert last month - to discourage uncontrolled partying.

Fans without tickets but a passion for partying are being blamed for many of the widespread drunken parking lot brawls from a July 28 country music festival at the Route 1 stadium.

Signs will be posted at each parking lot telling people they can't stay without a ticket, said State Police Lt. Jeff Stuart, commander of the Foxboro barracks.

Drivers without tickets will be directed back onto Route 1. "We are asking people, 'Don't come if you don't have a ticket. Because you're not welcome,'" Stuart said.

"I don't think that anybody's opposed to anybody having a good time in the parking lots, if they're respectful to people," he said.

Nonetheless, Stuart said state police will at least double their presence.

"They'll be everywhere," Stuart said.

Foxboro Police Chief Edward O'Leary said he had more than 120 officers and the state police had about 80 troopers at the country music festival.

O'Leary said he, too, will beef up the police presence on Sunday toward "a more rapid deployment" in the parking lots and around the stadium.

About two dozen motorcycle cops trained in crowd control will be ready to rush to the stadium.

The officers are part of the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council, a consortium that includes Foxboro.

Additional bicycle officers will be in the parking lots to "get the resources to where the need is," O'Leary said.

O'Leary also is adding prisoner vans. And he is working on securing places to hold prisoners.

"I don't have a lot of room here at my 'inn,'" O'Leary said.

Additional officers also will be in the neighborhood before the show, he said.

"As much as possible, we certainly don't want any disruptions," he said.