Minimum $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service for person cited<\/p>\n
\u201cIf individuals would consider public safety, and consider the minimum $1,000 fine, before considering the purchase alcohol for someone under 21, I\u2019m sure it would be a no-brainer to just politely say no.\u201d <\/p>\n
CSLEA President Alan Barcelona<\/p>\n
SAN JOSE \u2013 On August 19, 2026, the San Jos\u00e9 Police Department, along with the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), conducted a shoulder tap operation at four retail licensees in the city of San Jos\u00e9 to target the sale of alcohol to minors. As a result of this operation, one individual was arrested and cited for furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors.<\/p>\n
This type of operation targets adults who purchase alcohol for persons under the age of 21. A minor under the direct supervision of law enforcement stands outside of a liquor or convenience store and asks customers to buy them alcohol. The minor also indicates they are underage and cannot purchase the alcohol.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderage drinking harms our community, \u201cstated SJPD Chief of Police Paul Joseph. \u201cPreventing the sale of alcohol to minors will help to increase public safety and make our roads safer.\u201d<\/p>\n
If an adult agrees to purchase alcohol for the underage person, they can be arrested and cited for furnishing alcohol to a minor. The penalty for furnishing alcohol to a minor is a minimum $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service.<\/p>\n
\u201cABC conducts these operations to keep alcohol out of the hands of our youth,\u201d said ABC Director Paul Tupy. \u201cWe can increase the quality of life in our communities and reduce DUIs by preventing underage drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on August 27, 2026 Minimum $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service for person cited \u201cIf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-445338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445338","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=445338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}