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You are here: Home / News / Mack’s Hwy Mkt. Fined for Selling Beer to Minor

Mack’s Hwy Mkt. Fined for Selling Beer to Minor

May 22, 2018 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

During a special called meeting on Monday the East Ridge Beer Board fined Mack’s Highway Market $500 for selling beer to a minor.

Attorney Lloyd Levitt, representing business owner Sreenu Pamidi, pointed out to the beer board members that a section of the city’s beer ordinance provides for a civil penalty in lieu of suspending or revoking a businesses beer license. 

“It’s totally discretionary,” Levitt said. “It would be a fair resolution.”

The board agreed and unanimously voted to assess a fine instead of opting to suspend the businesses license to sell beer for a period of time. The last violation of the beer ordinance by Mack’s employees was in 2013, it was noted.

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy Marty Ray told the board that on March 16 an underage male buyer working with authorities on a “sting” entered the store on Ringgold Road in the early afternoon. The buyer told Deputy Ray that the clerk never asked for any identification. An East Ridge officer was called to the scene and a citation was issued to the clerk for selling to an underage individual. The criminal charge was dismissed in East Ridge Municipal Court, officials said.

It was noted that the clerk was the only employee in the store at the time and that he was talking on his phone to his wife who had recently been hospitalized. 

Pamidi told board members that he has sent his employees for special training and that he recently purchased new point of sale hardware that requires a person purchasing alcohol to have their ID entered into the system.

 

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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