8 businesses busted for selling alcohol to minors
Marietta teens looking to sample adult beverages are out of luck, thanks to the diligent efforts of local law enforcement.
Police in the Cobb hamlet conducted a sweeping “alcohol compliance check” May 16 and found eight businesses violated the law by serving underage buyers.
Unbelievably, a company that chose the name “Loco Willy’s” is among the scofflaws.
The “underage buyers” used in the sting are Boy Scouts volunteering with the Marietta Police Department’s Explorer Post, police said.
Thirsty-seven businesses asked the boys for IDs and were not cited.
Here’s the list of the businesses that sold to minors.
- Battle&Brew 279 Powers Ferry Rd. Marietta, GA 30067;
- Citgo 574 Roswell St. Marietta, GA 30060
- Jimiz Lounge 2090 Cobb Pkwy. S Smyrna, GA 30080
- Rodney’s Jamaican Soulfood 2092 Cobb Pkwy. S Marietta, GA 30060
- Taqueria Tsunami 70 S. Park Sq. Marietta, GA 30060
- Fairground Food Mart 619 N. Fairground St. Marietta, GA 30060
- Beer Barrel 1294 Roswell Rd. Marietta, GA 30060;
- Loco Willy’s 800 Whitlock Ave. Marietta, GA 30064
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140 comments Add your comment
cobbperson
May 22nd, 2012
12:16 pm
What merit badge do they get for this? The Entrapment skills badge? Guess they don’t go in the woods anymore.
Blah
May 22nd, 2012
12:16 pm
Their next mission is speed traps on their bicycles….
sidney
May 22nd, 2012
12:23 pm
Why didn’t they use girl scouts?
mom3boys
May 22nd, 2012
12:32 pm
Explorers is a part of scouting. Kids pick an area to learn about. These explorers chose law enforcement. Explorers is a co-ed part of the BSA; girls were likely a part of this “sting.” Way to go, Cobb!
mom3boys
May 22nd, 2012
12:32 pm
Oh, and btw…if you want your 17 year old to have a beer, give him one in your home…that isn’t illegal. Just don’t serve his friends.
Positive
May 22nd, 2012
12:37 pm
Explorers are a great coed program that is part of the Boy Scouts. The police explorer posts overall are a good concept, but I have problems with the Boy Scouts being directly associated with a underage buy sting. Even if the agenda was intended to stop illegal activity, it is asking Children members of the explorer post to essentially engage in illegal activity with the support of police. Youth are still developing they moral ideals. The police seem to be teaching at a very young age that it is okay to lie and be deceptive in order to enforce laws. Police can legally lie to suspected criminal, but is this really what the Boy Scouts is all about.
I hope the Boy Scouts along with the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts have a problem with any scouting unit promoting members to be dishonest even if the police think the ends are for the good.
SamE
May 22nd, 2012
12:48 pm
I think that under aged drinking wouldn’t be an issue if the age was lowered to 18. The whole concept of alochol being something “dangerous” “risky” or “naughty” only motivates teenagers to drink in the first place. Besides, America is wonderful at sending mixed signals to the masses with fun or innovative beer commercials, swanky wine and liquor commercials, yet on the other hand, the law villanizes alcohol. Too bad the cops are wasting their time on this matter, I would think human trafficking would be a much higher priority.
SamE
May 22nd, 2012
12:49 pm
Reason #59 as to why I don’t live in Cobb County.
Positive
May 22nd, 2012
12:52 pm
Why wait until 17 years old. Heck Ga is one of the few states that has no age limit on drinking if the parent is giving the alcohol to their own child in their home. Every so often a story is being reported somewhere in the state of children under 10 years old that test positive for alcohol and no one is charged with a crime because the parent gave the child alcohol in their own home.
DFCS will completely investigate families with a children under 10 years old found to have alcohol in their system and it can be used as a fact in any DFCS action which is not a good thing. Basically, the law makers in Ga long ago wanted to make sure a parent could not go to jail for letting a child try egg nog with alcohol or for a sipping a glass of wine with a meal at their parents home. It was also alittle bit about letting a young boy having a beer with his dad at home while watching a football game. Since the legislature could not decide how young was too young for parents to give a child their first taste of alcohol in their home, Georgia became one of a very few states with essentially no age limit for drinking alcohol with parents approval in their home.
BTB
May 22nd, 2012
12:54 pm
Marietta has graduated from a mill town to a “hamlet”. A hamlet?? Really??