Weekend Sting Catches San Bruno Business Selling Tobacco to Minors

Deputies from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s office teamed up with officers from San Bruno , Daly City and South San Francisco to conduct tobacco compliance checks at 161 businesses in San Mateo County on Saturday, March 30, 2013.

Minors working with law enforcement personnel entered 37 San Bruno businesses and attempted to buy tobacco products but only one did allow the sale and the employee who sold the tobacco to the minor was cited.

The business that sold tobacco to a minor is:

• Rollingwood Gas and Shop on Sneath Lane.

According to a release sent from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s office, at least 99 percent of the merchants where the minors tried to buy tobacco asked the decoy for identification. The vertical format of the CA identification card and the technology of current cash registers made recognizing a minor easier and prevented the majority of the sales.

The tobacco compliancy program is funded by a grant from the Sab Mateo County Health department

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