Countywide : 10 Liquor Store Clerks Are Cited in Sting Operation
Ten people were cited on suspicion of selling alcohol to 19-year-old Sheriff’s Department cadets working in a sting operation, authorities said Thursday.
The store clerks were arrested March 29 on suspicion of furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors and were released after they were cited, Sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Carpenter said in a news release.
The cadets tried to buy alcohol from 79 businesses in Moorpark, Thousand Oaks, Fillmore and Piru.
The so-called ABC Sting, standing for Alcohol Beverage Control, resulted in arrests at three businesses in Moorpark, five in Thousand Oaks and one each in Fillmore and Piru, authorities said.
The names of businesses where sales occurred will be provided to the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which could impose sanctions ranging from a fine to revocationof a liquor license, authorities said.
Such undercover operations will be conducted with increasing frequency throughout the year because authorities are concerned about the number of establishments that continue tosell alcohol to minors, Carpenter said.
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