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Undercover Beer Sting Results In Arrests At North Memphis and East Memphis Businesses

Release Date: July 14, 2006

Sheriff’s Deputies and other officers with the Metro D.U.I. Squad visited businesses on Chelsea Avenue, Thomas, Macon, Hollywood and other nearby streets last night.

On Thursday evening, July 13, 2006, Deputies and other officers visited 29 businesses, which included convenience stores, grocery stores and liquor stores.

Fourteen (14) clerks were issued misdemeanor citations for selling beer to persons below the legal drinking age of 21.  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.

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 13 undercover beer stings and 165 clerks have been issued citations or arrested 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.