BuckBoozled
Selling Booze to Minors Nets $250 Fines

 

ST. MARY’S TODAY

LEONARDTOWN -- Alcohol Beverage board chair Al Babcock Thursday afternoon expressed concern half of the number of establishments were found selling alcohol to a minor during a sting operation in July. He wondered what might be happening rest of the time.

The six delinquent establishments were Fritzies Marina & Pub of Daniel S. Fitzgerald and John Huntt Bowling Sr., Back Road Inn of James B. Cryer, Club 911 of Frances Charlene Mangum, St. Mary’s Landing of Kevin R. Hill and William D. Hill Jr., Hill’s Country Store of George B. Benbow and Gloria J. Tippett, Clarke’s Landing Restaurant of Rex  Shriver, Jack  Shriver, and Carol. Shriver, and Early Bird of Ajit Singh, Rajwinder Kaur, and James R. Hayden.

“It gives some food for thought,” said Brad Brizzi, St. Mary’s Retail Beverage Association. Brizzi expressed concern that half of the establishments in St. Marys were found to be selling alcohol to a minor in the July sting.

The board fined all of them $250 each with a suspended fine of $250, with no probation.

The sting operation was conducted by Alcohol Enforcement Officer Emory Johnson who used an 18-year-old confidential informant for the sting operation. The six establishments, all of whom pleaded guilty some of them with a pinch of salt, were among 13 that were raided July 22.

Johnson said in there were six juveniles among 39 citations issued in August to persons under 21 who were in possession of alcohol.