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Undercover Beer Sting Results In Arrests At Whitehaven and South Memphis Businesses
Release Date: April 26, 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 59% of the locations visited by officers sold alcohol to persons below the legal drinking age of 21.
On Tuesday evening, April 25, 2006, Deputies and other officers visited 17 locations, which included convenience stores, grocery stores and liquor stores along Elvis Presley, Winchester and Tchulahoma streets.
Clerks at ten (10) 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.
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 seven (7) undercover beer stings and has arrested 97 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.
BEER STING SALE & NO SALE LOCATIONS - April 25, 2006 |
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Sale Made? |
Business Name |
Address |
|
|
No |
CITGO |
3450 ELVIS PRESLEY |
|
No |
EXXON |
3474 ELVIS PRESLEY |
|
No |
MIRACK MINI MART |
1204 WINCHESTER |
Yes |
|
GRACELAND LIQUORS |
225 WINCHESTER |
|
|
No |
SAVE-A-MINUTE MKT. |
1341 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
MAPCO EXPRESS |
1681 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
BP AMOCO |
1707 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
TEXACO |
1708 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
JACK’S FOODS |
1896 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
MAPCO EXPRESS |
2185 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
WORLD WIDE LIQUORS |
3551 TCHULAHOMA |
|
|
No |
APPLE MARKET |
3237 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
EXXON |
3340 WINCHESTER |
|
No |
MAPCO EXPRESS |
3367 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
OMEGA EXPRESS |
3454 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
CITGO/AMORAMYA |
3803 WINCHESTER |
| Yes |
|
JONES MARKET |
1841 WINCHESTER |
Steve Shular
Public Information Officer
Shelby County Sheriff's Office
201 Poplar Ave - Suite 902
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: 901-545-5532
FAX (901) 545-3310
Email: shulars@shelby-sheriff.org
