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Arrests During Beer Sting in Whitehaven and South Memphis

Release Date: September 1, 2006

Sheriff’s Deputies and other officers with the Metro D.U.I. Squad visited businesses on Elvis Presley, Bellevue and Finley Road in Whitehaven and South Memphis last night.  On Thursday evening, August 31, 2006, Deputies and other officers visited 22 businesses, which included convenience stores, grocery stores and liquor stores.

Thirteen (13) clerks were cited for selling beer to persons below the legal drinking age of 21. The clerks were issued Misdemeanor Citations and 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 19 undercover beer stings and 252 clerks have been issued citations or physically arrested for selling alcohol to underage persons.

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