Monday, February 6, 2012
crime State Liquor Store Among Eight Locations Caught in Underage Drinking Sting
Posted by George Prentice on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM
An underage drinking sting operation by Boise Police resulted in citations to employees at eight locations, including a state liquor store.
Boise police, working with two 18- and 19-year-old minors, checked for compliance at 53 establishments. According to a police statement, "many of those who passed recognized that something was not right and did the right thing. They asked another employee to take a second look at the IDs and recognized that they were minors before refusing to make the sale."
However, eight establishments, including four in the Vista Avenue area of the city, had employees who sold or provided alcohol to teens. They were:
-Albertsons at Vista Avenue and Overland Road
-Chevron on Vista Avenue and Airport Way
-The Idaho State Liquor Store on Vista Avenue and Targee Street
-Johnny Carinos at Overland Road and Entertainment Avenue
-La Tapitia on Parkcenter Boulevard
-Maverick on Federal Way and Amity Road
-Pho 79 on State Street
-Raw Sushi on Vista Avenue
A person who sells or furnishes alcohol to underage youth faces fines between $500 and $1,000, plus up to one year in jail.
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I used to be one of the minors who helped do these alcohol checks. I can definitively say it's a waste of taxpayer money. The "criminals" we caught were elderly checkers, teens working part-time and people just trying to get by at their service job. In many ways, it's entrapment since we are actively trying to make someone do a crime. Imagine, if cops could just walk around in plain clothes trying to encourage you to do illegal things, and then busting you for it.
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Having gotten one of these worthless tickets... I couldn't agree with you more! Such a waste of time, and it's a charge on my otherwise spotless record. Ridiculous.
Imagine being one of those "elderly checkers, teens working part-time and people just trying to get by at their service job" and actually taking pride in learning how to do the job correctly in the first place?! How hard is it really to check someone's ID...not that difficult. The analogy to having plain clothes police walking around encouraging people to commit crimes and arresting them for it is ridiculous since it is your job as an individual to know right from wrong and not do the wrong thing! And in a sting it isn't the underage kids who attempt to buy the beer that are "caught" as they are part of the sting, it is the places selling to them! It isn't entrapment when you get caught doing something you aren't supposed to be doing in the first place! Apparently those who feel this type of "sting" is wrong are the same people who think that a crime is only a crime if they get caught. Geez use some logic.
My guess they were after Quinns lounge after the cooments on smolking in bars at the city meetings.
I'm confused about the IDs that the two sting minors had? Were they fake IDs that reported them as legal age or were they minor IDs? Because most fakes in circulation are either real hand-me-downs or professionally made fake IDs that are nearly impossible to tell from a real ID just from looking. You can't expect the elderly (who had laminated paper IDs when they were young) and rushed service people to pull out the blacklight to double check and ID that looks completely real. I think businesses should refuse alcohol to those without IDs and those with minor/obviously fake IDs, but you shouldn't hold a business responsible for detecting nearly identical fakes from real IDs.
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