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Cops find 5 out of 23 liquor license holders

checked sold to underage

Selling to minors:

Piney Pt. Market, McKays, Canopy, The Tackle Box and Hal's Deli

LEONARDTOWN --- On 12/30/07 between the hours of 0900 and 1700 Senior Deputy First Class Emory Johnson and Senior Deputy First Class D. Ross of the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office along with an 18 year old confidential informant conducted an Underage Controlled Buy operation in the middle and southern portion of St. Mary's County. 

Attempts to make purchases of alcoholic beverages were made at twenty three establishments with five attempts resulting in sales of an alcoholic beverage to a person under twenty one. 

The establishments that successfully passed the operation and did not make sales to the under age informant were: Cook's Liquors Hollywood, Snellman's General Merchandise, The Early Bird, Wild Wood Wine and Spirits, Bay Country Liquors, Jug Head's Liquors, ABC Liquors, Esperanza Shell, JC Wine and Spirits, Pegg's Shell, The Sign of the Whale, 2000 Liquors, County Liquors, Discount Tobacco Beer Wine and Liquor, St. Mary's Fine Wine and Liquors, International Beverages and Cadillac Jacks, Prices Liquors, and Beacon Liquors. 

The establishments that failed the operation and made sales of an alcoholic beverage to the underage informant were:  Marilyn McKay's Liquors, The Tackle Box, Canopy Liquors, Hal's Food Mart and Piney Point Market. 

The establishments where the sales were made will be brought before the Alcohol Board for St. Mary's County.  The employees that made the sales were issued a civil citation for furnishing an alcoholic beverage to a person known to be under twenty one.

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