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CCAT sting operation cites local businesses for: 'selling underage persons tobacco products'
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The operation consisted of “decoys” who were beneath the age to get tobacco and approached businesses to visualize if they obeyed the law.
"During the operation, decoys, who weren't of the legal age to purchase tobacco, were sent into about eight businesses who sold-out tobacco products and tried to purchase tobacco," Deputy Sgt. Mariano Matos III of the Riverside County Sheriff' Department aforementioned in a very release.
3 out of eight businesses allegedly sold-out tobacco product to the decoys, and for that, they received citations, Matos aforementioned in a very unleash. The three businesses were known within the release as M Market, vale butcher shop and Alpha Smoke Shop.
These businesses were issued citations for “selling underage persons tobacco products,” in step with the release. The report sheds no lightweight on whether or not these were initial citations.
This hustle was command in conjunction with town of Coachella' recent receipt of funds from the Tobacco Grant Program, Sgt. Matos said. in step with California’s Department of Justice, this program provides funds to help within the social control of native and state laws against mercantilism and marketing tobacco product to minors.
Established in 2017, the Tobacco Grant Program has distributed about $124 million in funding to 260 grantees.
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