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St. Mary's Alcohol Board fines and suspends three licensees after underage-sale cases
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Summary
On Dec. 11, 2025 the Alcohol Beverage Board of St. Mary's County imposed fines and a short suspension on multiple licensees after undercover compliance checks found staff sold tobacco or alcohol to a 20-year-old confidential informant. Penalties ranged from $250 fines for a tobacco sale to a $2,500 fine and three-day suspension for repeated violations at one store.
Chairman David Willenborg and the Alcohol Beverage Board of St. Mary's County on Dec. 11 imposed monetary penalties and, in one case, a short suspension after several businesses were found to have sold tobacco or alcohol to an undercover 20-year-old confidential informant.
The board heard a tobacco-sale case for Stop and Shop (21036 Great Mills Road) in which the clerk, identified at the hearing as Roshna (Rashna) Patel, admitted the May 27, 2025 sale. Chris Beaver, the board's attorney, read the sheriff's office compliance report describing the controlled purchase, the store clerk's failure to request or examine identification and the district court's subsequent guilty finding and probation before judgment. After discussion the board approved a motion to fine the licensee $250, with no abeyance.
At Bay Mart & Deli (RV and A LLC), the board reviewed a June 25, 2025 undercover tobacco purchase that led to a district court guilty finding for the clerk who completed the sale. Licensee representatives said the store maintains a 100% ID policy, has used secret-shopper checks and is installing a point-of-sale ID-scanning system; the board nonetheless approved a motion that included a $1,500 penalty to be paid in addition to a prior $500 abeyance, a combined total the chair described to the licensee as $2,000.
The board also reviewed multiple underage-alcohol-sale incidents at Leonardtown Wine & Spirits (25470 Point Lookout Road). Clerk Navjot Singh acknowledged selling a bottle of wine to the confidential informant and admitted he did not check identification. The board imposed a $500 fine on the clerk. The licensee later faced a separate, broader hearing on ownership disclosures and repeated violations; board members stressed that recurring violations threaten the license and unanimously approved a $2,500 fine, a three-day suspension to start immediately, and required retraining (RAS). Chairman Willenborg told the licensee the board viewed a fourth violation as jeopardizing continued licensure.
The board's actions were grounded in local regulations the board enforces for acts contrary to law committed on a licensed premise and in state criminal-code adjudications referenced at hearings. In each case the board advised respondents of their right to pay within 10 days and to appeal to the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County within 30 days.
Next steps: affected licensees may pay fines, seek to satisfy administrative conditions such as retraining, or appeal the board's decisions to the county circuit court.
