{"id":211423,"date":"2016-12-30T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211423"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:02:04","slug":"underage-alcohol-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/underage-alcohol-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake County Cracks Down on Underage Alcohol Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAVARES &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>The Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is cracking down on underage alcohol and tobacco sales throughout the county according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to reduce and possibly eliminate the sale of alcohol and tobacco products to minors, deputies with the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the Special Investigations Bureau conducted a two-day undercover sting throughout the county on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of 84 stores were visited during the operation, to include various gas stations, liquor stores, pharmacies, grocery stores, and discount stores,&#8221; Lt. John Herrell stated in the press release.<\/p>\n<p>During the sting, 22 arrests were made. 20 for selling alcohol to a minor and 2 for selling tobacco to a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Of those arrests, Herrell stated one stood out. The arrest of 34-year-old Azim Miah,\u00a0came after an undercover buyer managed to make two separate purchases at the Umatilla Truck Stop where Miah was the clerk.<\/p>\n<p>According to Herrell, the Umatilla Truck Stop has been the subject of numerous complaints of illegal alcohol sales for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Miah was arrested and charged with the sale of alcoholic beverages to a minor. He was later released from the Lake County Jail after posting a $500 bond.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAVARES &#8211;\u00a0The Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is cracking down on underage alcohol and tobacco sales throughout the county according to a press release. In an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[1434,1196,2325,2329,2327,561,79,80,750,2330,1415,2331,2328,2332,2326,1198],"class_list":["post-211423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-alcohol","tag-beer","tag-bust","tag-cigarettes","tag-gas-station","tag-investigation","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lcso","tag-liquor","tag-minor","tag-sale","tag-tobacco","tag-underage","tag-undercover","tag-wine","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/arrested.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}