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St. Mary's County board fines DJ's 1 Stop employee, licensee over underage sale
Summary
The Alcohol Beverage Board of St. Mary's County found an employee sold alcohol to a 19-year-old confidential informant and imposed fines: $150 for the employee and $1,000 (plus required training and previously held fines) on the licensee.
The Alcohol Beverage Board of St. Mary’s County on May 8, 2025 found that an employee at DJ’s 1 Stop sold an alcoholic beverage to a 19-year-old confidential informant during a sheriff's office compliance check on Nov. 26, 2024, and imposed fines on both the employee and the licensee.
The finding followed testimony that on Nov. 26, 2024, at about 6:20 p.m., a county sheriff’s office confidential informant entered DJ’s 1 Stop in Mechanicsville, selected a 750-milliliter bottle of cotton candy grape wine and placed it on the counter. Sergeant Robert Merritt of the sheriff’s special operations division accompanied the informant. The clerk, later identified as Francis Bernard Istvan,…
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