{"id":221153,"date":"2026-03-15T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221153\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:36:06","slug":"clovis-police-arrest-9-and-cite-3-stores-in-underage-alcohol-sales-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221153\/","title":{"rendered":"Clovis police arrest 9 and cite 3 stores in underage alcohol sales crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Clovis Police arrested 9 people and gave 3 stores citations for selling alcohol to minors during a safety operation.<\/p>\n<p>The Clovis Police Department conducted a &#8220;Shoulder Tap&#8221; operation and a &#8221; Minor Decoy&#8221; operation.<\/p>\n<p>The Shoulder Tap Operation targets adults who purchase alcohol for people under the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, a minor working under the direct supervision of law enforcement stands outside a liquor or convenience store and asks customers to buy alcohol. <\/p>\n<p>The minor also tells the customer they are underage and cannot purchase the alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in 9 people being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty for buying alcohol for a minor is a minimum $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Minor Decoy&#8221; Operation, in which minors under the direct supervision of department agents, attempted to purchase alcohol from the store.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED]  <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/29-cited-for-distracted-driving-for-hands-free-cellphone-violations-in-visalia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">29 cited for distracted driving for hands-free cellphone violations in Visalia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clerks who sell to a minor face a minimum fine of $250 and 24 to 32 hours of community service for a first violation.<\/p>\n<p>The store could also have its alcohol license revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The operation resulted in 3 clerks receiving tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Clovis Police arrested 9 people and gave 3 stores citations for selling alcohol to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-221153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}