A Union City woman was arrested after allegedly selling alcohol without permits at Lake Merritt following a monthlong investigation by the Oakland Police Department and the city’s Economic & Workforce Development Department.<\/p>\n
Police said officers first contacted the woman on June 19 after investigating reports of an unlicensed mobile alcohol vendor at 599 El Embarcadero.<\/p>\n
Authorities said they seized alcohol, warned her that she lacked the required state and local permits, and advised her that continuing to operate would be unlawful.<\/p>\n
Investigators later found a social media post that they said showed the woman continued selling alcohol, OPD said.<\/p>\n
During a follow-up operation on Friday, police said an underage decoy purchased alcohol from the woman without being asked for identification. An undercover officer also bought alcohol in a separate transaction, according to police.<\/p>\n
The woman was arrested on suspicion of possessing and serving alcohol in a public park and was booked into Santa Rita Jail on charges related to unlawful alcohol sales.<\/p>\n
Police said she later admitted she knew her operation was illegal and that she did not have the required permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Union City woman was arrested after allegedly selling alcohol without permits at Lake Merritt following a monthlong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,43205],"class_list":["post-402437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-union-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402437","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=402437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}