Newton store cited after 90 minors tried to buy alcohol
Boston.com – A grocery store in Newton Corner faces citations that could jeopardize its liquor license after about 90 minors, including 50 with fake IDs, attempted to buy alcohol over the holiday weekend, state officials said following an investigation. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission along with Newton police cracked down on the Newton Corner Mart on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening in response to complaints received by the commission and city police that the Centre Street store was selling alcohol to minors, officials said. Investigators said the 90 minors were between 17 to 20 years old, most were from Belmont and most were college students home for the three-day weekend. Frederick Mahony, the commission’s chief investigator, said the Newton Corner Mart does not have a record of selling to minors in the past, and investigators were surprised at the number of underage people attempting to buy alcohol. Mahony attributed the high number of underage customers to a trend he has seen where tech-savvy teens quickly alert each other by text message and on social networking sites like Facebook that a particular liquor store is not checking, or lenient in checking, identification. Investigators found some “very, very good fake IDs,” among the 50 that were confiscated, he said. Other ID’s were more obvious fakes, including a 17-year-old who handed the undercover clerk the license of a 34-year-old woman.
Yeah the fact that all these teenagers somehow found out about the same liquor store in Newton must be because of all this new fangled technology like facebook and twitter and all that shit. I mean what else could it be? Because this type of stuff never happened when I was in high school. Hey wait a minute. Now that I think about it I do kind of remember every kid between the age of 2 and 20 on the North Shore always showing up at Johnnies on Lynn Shore Drive every Friday Night. Weird. That must have just been a crazy coincidence right? I mean how could people communicate without cellphones, twitter and facebook? Impossible!
PS – I love the heart of the 17 year old who used the ID of a 34 year old woman. That kid can play for me anyday. I mean go big or go home right?
in order to keep alcohol out of the hands of these minors we should stop selling alcohol altogether.. the children are our future and we have to teach them well and let them lead the way.
Fucking Belmont kids ruining it for everyone. Back in my day we had to drive into Ball square to get our case of Natural Light.
we would find a crackhead near a liquor store in lowell and toss them an extra $5 to buy for us.. had to have a buddy wait on the other side of the liquor store though, so that said crackhead wouldn’t run right past the liquor store entrance and take off with the money. learned that the hard way.
crackhead wrangling should be a sport.. they are a wiley and evasive adversary.
Hamyl’s in Lawrence was always my go to spot when I was 17.
This is right out of the movie summer school where Dave used an ID at Murray’s liquors saying that he was a black marine in Vietnam
What about Dymes right off the lynnway or Kwik Shop in Salem, those used to be 2 sure-fire underage spots
I had one of those “very, very good fake IDs” mentioned. A huge hero and turned into a big money-making business. One of those things that definitely DID get you laid too.