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January 9, 2008

3 Warren stores cited for selling cigarettes to 17-year-old

WARREN -- Three stores face potential $250 fines after selling cigarettes to a 17-year-old who was sent inside in a police investigation to see whether clerks asked for identification and turned the teen away.

Five Warren stores did ask for an ID and then refuse to sell the cigarettes, but Super Mart, at 747 Main St., owned by Al Youssef; Valero DB Mart, at 625 Metacom Ave. owned by Mohammad Rashid; and Pop’s Filling Station/Salem Gas, owned by Nafez H. Salem, were cited for violations, the police said in a news release today.

A Jan. 11 court date for violating law that someone must be 18 to buy cigarettes is set for District Court, Providence.

According to the police, the teenager went into each store alone but was electronically monitored by a sergeant. The teen asked for a pack of Marlboros.

“I expect additional surveys with cooperating juvenile witnesses to occur later in the year," Chief Thomas D. Gordan said in the statement.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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