Alcohol Sales Crackdown Nets 11
Eleven convenience store and gas station market workers throughout the San Fernando Valley were charged Thursday with selling alcohol to an 18-year-old LAPD decoy.
The employees face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for selling liquor to a minor, according to the Los Angeles city attorney’s office.
In an undercover project by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill Division, a teenage volunteer used marked cash--to be used later as evidence--to try to purchase alcoholic drinks from 33 stores in Sylmar, Sun Valley, Sunland, Tujunga and other Valley-area locations, the city attorney’s San Fernando office said. Five of the 11 arrests were made in Sylmar.
Foothill Division vice officers, standing nearby posing as customers, immediately arrested the workers who sold the alcohol.
Arraignments in San Fernando Municipal Court are scheduled for March 14 and 18.
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