{"id":332392,"date":"2026-05-26T03:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:01:51","slug":"3-employees-cited-in-nw-bakersfield-for-selling-alcohol-to-minor-during-abc-operation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332392\/","title":{"rendered":"3 employees cited in NW Bakersfield for selling alcohol to minor during ABC operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Employees from three northwest Bakersfield stores were arrested and cited Friday for selling alcohol to a minor during a decoy operation, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>On May 15, vice detectives with BPD conducted a minor decoy operation in partnership with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tWatch \u2018After Sunrise\u2019 on KGET+; Click to learn how to get KGET+ on your smart TV devices\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the operation, a minor enters the store, presents valid identification showing they\u2019re underage and tries to buy alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If the employee sells alcohol to the decoy, they can be arrested and the business can be subject to administrative action, including possibly losing their ABC license, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>BPD detectives responded to the Rosedale Petromart at 3943 Rosedale Hwy, the 7-11 convenience store at 9600 Brimhall Rd. and the Rosedale Chevron at 9700 Rosedale Hwy.<\/p>\n<p>At each store, one employee was arrested for furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors, according to police. All three employees were later released at the scene with a citation.<\/p>\n<p>The operation is funded by a grant from the ABC Alcohol Policing Partnership program, BPD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Employees from three northwest Bakersfield stores were arrested and cited Friday for selling alcohol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-332392","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\/332392","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=332392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}