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3 CITED IN STING FOR BUYING TEEN ALCOHOL.


Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England
Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River.
 -- Three people were cited after they bought alcohol for a 19-year-old sheriff's ``decoy'' who approached them outside a west Lancaster liquor liquor /li·quor/ (lik´er) (li´kwor) pl. liquors, liquo´res   [L.]
1. a liquid, especially an aqueous solution containing a medicinal substance.

2.
 store, sheriff's officials said.

In a ``shoulder tap'' sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)  intended to catch people purchasing alcohol for minors, the teen approached 22 people Wednesday Wednesday: see week.  outside four businesses.

Nineteen people refused to buy alcohol for the teen, and at two businesses the teen was noticed by employees and ordered to leave, which deputies said is a positive sign.

``Other patrons that declined to purchase alcohol for the minor made reference to recent newspaper articles reporting the prior arrests of adults for furnishing alcohol to a minor,'' Deputy Mike Kuper Kuper may refer to:
  • Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper (1809–1885), British naval officer.
  • Peter Kuper (born 1958), U.S. comics artist.
  • Adam Kuper, British anthropologist.
  • Kuper Island, between Vancouver Island and the coast of British Columbia.
 said.

The three citations brought to 20 the number of adults caught purchasing alcohol for minors in five sting operations during the past two months, deputies said.

Lancaster sheriff's station deputies and state Alcoholic Beverage Control Alcoholic Beverage Control may refer to:
  • Alcoholic beverage control states
  • The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control



Alcoholic Beverage Control may refer to:
  • alcoholic beverage control states
 investigators conducted the sting, with funding from a $99,000 state grant the Lancaster station received this year to enforce state laws against the sale of alcohol to minors.

Deputies also have sent teens into stores, restaurants and bars to try to buy alcohol.

Anyone wanting to report businesses they think are selling alcohol to minors and conducting other criminal activity can call Kuper at (661) 948-8466 or the Alcoholic Beverage Control office in Van Nuys at (818) 901-5017.
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