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St. Mary's County board fines six licensees after underage-sale compliance checks
Summary
At its Dec. 11, 2014 meeting the St. Mary's County Alcohol Beverage Board found multiple licensees sold alcohol to an underage informant during October compliance checks and assessed fines, suspended portions of fines, probation and training requirements.
St. Mary's County Alcohol Beverage Board on Thursday assessed fines, suspended portions of fines and required training after finding several businesses sold alcohol to an underage informant during October compliance checks.
The board, chaired by Moses Haldane, found violations based on testimony from Corporal James Stone of the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office, who supervised the enforcement checks, and on admissions from some licensees. The board applied a mix of monetary penalties, suspended portions of fines for probationary periods and mandatory attendance at the county's RAS (Responsible Alcohol Server) training.
The board's alcohol-enforcement coordinator, Corporal James Stone, described the checks in testimony read into the record: "She checked the ID, gave the ID back, asked what she wanted ... took the money ... gave her change" and then the informant "took a photograph of the bartender and the drink," which officers recovered as evidence. Stone identified the informant's date of birth on a military ID as May 22, 1995, indicating she was 19 at the time of the buys.
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