{"id":284531,"date":"2026-04-24T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:02:07","slug":"brookside-market-employee-arrested-cited-after-alleged-alcohol-sale-to-minor-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284531\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookside Market employee arrested, cited after alleged alcohol sale to minor in operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Bakersfield gas station employee near The Marketplace was arrested, cited, and released after allegedly selling alcohol to a minor during a decoy operation.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Police Department VICE detectives, in partnership with California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), conducted a Minor Decoy operation in west Bakersfield on April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A Minor Decoy operation focuses on businesses who sell alcohol to underage people. A minor under the age of 21 enters a licensed establishment, presents valid identification indicating they are underage, and tries to buy alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>If the employee sells alcohol to the decoy, they can be arrested, and the business can be subject to administrative action, including loss of its ABC license.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, Bakersfield Police Department detectives responded to the Brookside Market, located at 8803 Camino Media.<\/p>\n<p>A violation happened and one employee was arrested for furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors.<\/p>\n<p>The employee was later released at the scene with a citation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Bakersfield gas station employee near The Marketplace was arrested, cited, and released after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-284531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284531","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=284531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}