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4 Businesses Busted For Selling Booze To Minors

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Jul 26, 2008 3:20 pm US/Pacific

4 Businesses Busted For Selling Booze To Minors

PERRIS Seventeen businesses were tested and a lucky 13 did the right thing. They failed to sell alcohol to a minor. But four Perris businesses sold hooch to an underage customer as part of an undercover sting by law enforcement.

State and county law officials used a juvenile decoy Friday to target sales of alcohol to minors in the Perris area, according to a sheriff's corporal.

The decoy clearly posed as an adult younger than 21, according to sheriff's Cpl. Geoff Green.

Even though they cannot legally buy alcohol, persons under age 21 have a higher rate of drunk driving fatalities than the general adult population, Green said in a statement explaining Friday's sting operation.

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