Sting operations under way to catch liquor sales to minors
Published Friday, May 9, 2008
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Stumble It!ANCHORAGE — Sting operations are under way to nab liquor store patrons who buy alcohol for minors.
The sting operations are being conducted at liquor stores across Anchorage and the state.
The operations employ people between 16 and 20 years old who hang outside liquor stores and ask patrons to buy them alcohol.
Meanwhile, agents conducting surveillance catch the transactions on tape and arrest the suspects. If it’s their first time, the targets are charged with the misdemeanor crime of furnishing alcohol to minors.
Sergeant Dennis Allen of the Anchorage Police Department says the problem worsens around graduation time.
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...and why are they releasing information on a "sting" operation? Isn't that supposed to be kind of quiet? Hard to run a sting operation when people are expecting it.
anyone who knowingly gives alcohol to a minor should be put in the stockade. They obviously have not been to enough funerals.
So will you get thrown in jail if you just take the kids money and leave out the back door?
Seems that would teach the little @#$&!@#'s a lesson!
oldakcus
Kind of like how they continue to get people to sell to the minors even though there are 2 or 3 in the paper everyday for doing the same thing and the sellers have been warned that there is a sting underway.
People who are prone to do things like this will continue despite the risk.
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