UPDATED: Authorities Conduct Alcohol Compliance Checks

UPDATE: The two businesses that failed the alcohol compliance checks were Party Mart, 6006 Ringgold Road and Amigo Mexican Restaurant, 3805 Ringgold Rd. Chief J.R. Reed said he wanted to speak with members of the ER Beer Board concerning the checks before releasing the names of the businesses.

Authorities said the businesses have a Jan. 19 date in East Ridge Municipal Court. The Beer Board could suspend license and impose penalties.

In advance of the upcoming New Year’s weekend, the East Ridge Police Department, in a joint operation with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s office, conducted alcohol compliance checks in the area.

According to a press release issued by the ERPD, agencies checked businesses to ensure that ID’s were being checked and that no sales were being made to underage persons. In fourteen business checks, twelve were found to be in compliance with Tennessee state law concerning the sale of alcohol to minors, and two were cited for selling to underage purchasers.

The two non-compliant businesses were not disclosed in the press release.

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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