{"id":118022,"date":"2011-08-19T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118022"},"modified":"2011-08-21T05:54:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:54:25","slug":"police-13-longview-retailers-sell-tobacco-during-stings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118022","title":{"rendered":"Police: 13 Longview Retailers Sell Tobacco During Stings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=118029\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/thumb_police-longview3-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_police-longview\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-118029\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW \u2013 Two undercover string operations have found 13 businesses selling tobacco to minors. One sting was on Thursday and the other was last week. The undercover stings utilized 14-16 year old minors, accompanied by Longview Police Officers, who entered stores and attempted to purchase tobacco products. The stings are funded through a grant issued by the Texas Comptroller\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The undercover officer\/minor teams went to 149 Longview area tobacco retailers over the two-day period and of those, 13 retailers sold tobacco to the undercover minors. The locations that sold tobacco products to minors include:<br \/>\nFood Fast #85     \t\t         1901 Gilmer Rd<br \/>\nFood Fast #7\t\t          100 S Access Rd<br \/>\nTimpex                             \t           559 Mobberly Ave<br \/>\nZippy J\u2019s #4\t\t           1516 Fairmont<br \/>\nRoad Runner\t\t           1917 Judson Rd<br \/>\nKroger Fuel   (2 citations)                701 W Marshall Ave<br \/>\nEZ Mart                                           2901 Estes Pkwy<br \/>\nDay &#038; Night Texaco                         3122 Estes Pkwy<br \/>\nWal-Mart\t\t\t          4006 Estes Pkwy<br \/>\nMurphey USA                                  4004 Estes Pkwy<br \/>\nTejas Food Mart\t\t\t1822 Pine Tree Rd<br \/>\nTobacco Station\t\t\t3541 Gilmer Rd<br \/>\nMarshall Quick Stop\t\t2710 E Marshall Ave<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Health and Safety Code states that it is unlawful for a person to sell, give or cause to be sold or given a cigarette or tobacco product to someone who is younger than 18 years of age. A violation of this statute is punishable as a class C misdemeanor and the fine is over $500.00. <\/p>\n<p>According to Longview police, undercover tobacco and alcohol stings have proven to be an effective means of protecting Longview youth by encouraging compliance with Texas laws, They say the undercover stings will continue on a random basis in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 Two undercover string operations have found 13 businesses selling tobacco to minors. One sting was on Thursday and the other was last week. The undercover stings utilized 14-16 year old minors, accompanied by Longview Police Officers, who entered stores and attempted to purchase tobacco products. The stings are funded through a grant issued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police: 13 Longview Retailers Sell Tobacco During Stings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 02:11:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118022"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118283,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118022\/revisions\/118283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}