Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 04-05-2016
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Office of the City Attorney
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Consideration, discussion, and possible approval of a 30-day suspension of a low-point beer City license issued to Rooster Corner located at 1535 South Main Street, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, effective April 6, 2016, pursuant to Chapter 4, Section 4-96 of the Broken Arrow Code of Ordinances, for repeated violations of selling beer to minors
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Background:
The Broken Arrow Police Department has investigated frequent allegations regarding the sale of alcohol and tobacco to minors at the business of Rooster Corner which is located at 1535 South Main Street in Broken Arrow, Tulsa County. Sergeant Nester has supervised and coordinated the compliance operations for the Broken Arrow Police Department. These operations have resulted in the issuance of two citations to the same clerk at Rooster Corner, three weeks apart, for sale of beer to a minor. In the process of the arrest of the clerk for the second violation, officers located felony drugs in her possession which she had while on duty at the store. During that same time the business was cited for selling beer without a City license, which was found to be four months expired.
Additionally, during the investigation Officers located a minor in possession of the tobacco, which was illegally sold by a clerk within the store on the same date of the sale of beer to a minor. The same clerk that sold tobacco to a minor on a prior occasion and was cited for it.
Attached are the dispositions which include guilty pleas for the previous citations issued for the sale of beer to a minor, sale of tobacco to a minor, and failure to obtain a City low-point beer license. The citation for failure to obtain a City low-point beer license was dismissed upon payment of $100 after the business obtained a proper license. These violatio...
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