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Undercover Beer Sting Results In Arrests At East and South-East Memphis Businesses

Release Date: July 28, 2006

Sheriff’s Deputies and other officers with the Metro D.U.I. Squad visited businesses on Perkins, Getwell, Highland and other nearby streets in East and South-East Memphis last night.  On Thursday evening, July 27, 2006, Deputies and other officers visited 26 businesses, which included convenience stores, grocery stores and liquor stores.

Eighteen (18) 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.

At one of those stores where beer was sold to minors, a clerk was issued a juvenile summons.  That person was not old enough to sell alcohol to customers. 

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 15 undercover beer stings and 202 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.