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Undercover Beer Sting Results In Arrests At Raleigh, Frayser, and Berclair, Area Businesses

Release Date: May 12, 2006

Sheriff’s Deputies and other officers with the Metro D.U.I. Squad visited businesses in the Whitehaven and South Memphis areas last night.  Clerks at 23% of the locations visited by officers sold alcohol to persons below the legal drinking age of 21. 

On Tuesday evening, May10, 2006, Deputies and other officers visited 30 locations, which included convenience stores, grocery stores and liquor stores in the areas of Raleigh, Frayser, and Berclair.

Clerks at seven (7) businesses were arrested and given misdemeanor citations for selling beer to minors.  The clerks will have to report to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Jail Annex to be booked and fingerprinted at the Records and Identification Division.  In addition, there was one physical felony arrest for Bribery of Public Servant, DUI, Reckless Driving and Public Intoxication.

Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies and other officers from the Memphis Police Department and Germantown Police Department comprise the Metro D.U.I. Squad.

So far this year, the squad has conducted eight (8) undercover beer stings and has arrested 104 clerks for selling alcohol to underage persons.

The sting last night was part of an on-going effort funded by the Governor’s Highway Safety Office to stop the sale of alcohol to minors.