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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A person SMART enough to know......
May 22nd, 2012
10:14 am
More people drive and use a cell phone so it makes sense that it is more dangerous than Drunk Drivers. Few Drunks drivers are on the roads than cell phone users. Yes the Odds of having an accident while drunk are higher than cell phone use, but their are some many more phone users on the roads every hour of the day.
BRW
May 22nd, 2012
10:14 am
Glenn, Hopefully you never get a job selling anything properly regulated. Your not qualified.
jarvis
May 22nd, 2012
10:16 am
Nobody likes a Narc.
Fight for your right to party...
May 22nd, 2012
10:17 am
I believe the drinking age should be consistant with other adult activities like voting, entering into legal contracts and fighting a war for your country. If an 18 yer old is mature enough to be sent to the middle east with a semi automatic gun to fight in a war, I think they are mature enough to drink a beer.
jarvis
May 22nd, 2012
10:19 am
Then the cops showed the Boy Scouts how to abuse their power, cheat on their wives, and take bribes. All in all it was a great learning experience.
helo5747
May 22nd, 2012
10:21 am
“Unbelievably, a company that chose the name “Loco Willy’s” is among the scofflaws.”
I’m not sure why that is so unbelievable. I’m not from the area. Is there some kind of local significance or just another reporter trying to sensationalize their writing?
Glenn
May 22nd, 2012
10:24 am
@GV
Very well said . You are an ADULT at 18 . You shouldn’t be part of the Boy Scouts or Weeblo’s. When these adults aren’t posing as children are they eating PBJ’s and playing in sandboxes ? Making the drinking age 21 is away for the government to make money & make the morality police happy . If safety was the concern I couldn’t go down the road with a cell phone in one hand placed up to my ear & drive around town . You can be legally intoxicated after two drinks & be fully coherent . You can be responsible but deemed not in the name of morality & govt revenue .
Glenn
May 22nd, 2012
10:37 am
@ BRW
Qualified ? Are theses boy scouts busting people selling asbestos ? Responsibility should trump regulations when dealing with adults . Teach responsibility . Teach moderation . Don’t regulate what adults can give themselves .
Ruff
May 22nd, 2012
10:38 am
75% of boy scouts today are sponsored by the Morman church. Should ‘t they be on their witnessing patrols?
George P Burdell
May 22nd, 2012
10:38 am
To Mr. Mathis: Marietta is not a hamlet. It’s population in 2010 was 56,579. Your ITP attempt to denigrate this city is neither funny nor necessary.
To all the readers who decided to run down the Boy Scouts: the Boy Scouts involved in this sting are members of an Explorer post who’s primary interest is law enforcement. So it makes sense that they are involved in an operation like this.
To everyone who made fun of the alcohol laws: There have been numerous incidents in Cobb and other Atlanta metro counties where underage teens have managed to get drunk and kill themselves or others. The drinking age was 21 from the end of Prohibition until 1969 when states lowered it to match the voting age as specified in the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1971. So 18 year olds have only been allowed to drink in Georgia between 1972 and 1980. 1980 saw the beginning of the gradual raise of the drinking age to 19, 20 and now 21 in 1986.