OXNARD : Minors to Help Police in Liquor Sale Sting
Oxnard police will be sending “baby-face” teen-agers into liquor stores throughout the city as part of a sting operation to end illegal sales of alcohol to minors, police announced Friday.
Police will ask cadets and students, ages 17 or 18, to go into businesses and try to buy alcohol, said Detective Bob Camarillo, who is heading the sting operation. If a store clerk asks for identification, the decoys will present driver’s licenses showing their real age, Camarillo said.
“We have to use baby-face minors,” Camarillo said. The program will begin next week and continue through the second week of June.
Businesses found violating the law will face fines and could lose their alcohol licenses, Camarillo said.
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