Mandeville Police issues summons for selling alcohol to minors

Undercover operation targeted 15 businesses

By Suzanne Le Breton
St. Tammany News
Published on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:41 PM CDT

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Mandeville Police issued summons to four individuals Friday during an undercover operation targeting the sale of alcohol to minors.

Officers used a 19-year-old confidential informant to target 15 businesses.

During the operation the 19-year-old informant was sent into the businesses and attempted to purchase alcohol.

The following individuals sold the teenager alcohol and were issued summons for unlawful sale of alcohol to persons under the age of 21:

• Connie Angelo, 45, at Jemworks, 500 N. Causeway Blvd.;

• Timothy Tully Jr., 30, at the Obelisk, 22 St. Ann Drive;

• Jonas Gurnditz, 22, at the Barley Oak, 2101 Lakeshore Drive;

• Clay Cavignac, 45, at Donz, 1951 Lakeshore Drive;

• George Turlington, 28, at the Beach House, 124 Girod St.;

This was the second time in a row that a clerk at the Jemworks on North Causeway was cited.

The clerks at the following locations were commended for refusing to sell alcohol to a minor:

• Cracker Barrel, 1948 Florida Street

• Texaco, 2000 Florida Street

• Fresh Market, 1816 North Causeway

• Chevron, 3890 Louisiana Highway 22

• Northshore Shell, 501 North Causeway

• Spur, 3810 Louisiana Highway 22

• Winn Dixie, 619 North Causeway

• The Wine Loft, 1901 U.S. Highway 190

• Ruby’s Roadhouse, 840 Lamarque Street.

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1 comment(s)

Reason wrote on Aug 25, 2010 11:34 AM:

" Typical CI trap. Notice this person is not a Citizen Informant. There's a difference.

To those busted - Plead Not Guilty. Have an attorney look into MPD's policy on CI usage, even better if they have no policy at all.

File a motion to disclose the identity of the CI since he was a material participant to the crime. Look that person up for priors and see what he stands to gain by helping MPD.

A RS 14:93.11 guilty plea is a $500 fine and you will have a criminal record. "

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