After conducting its year-end alcohol compliance check last week, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said his office is requesting that the Nevada Attorney General’s Office include vaping and other tobacco products that businesses shouldn’t be selling to minors in future stings.
The CCSO’s school resource officers, in conjunction with Partnership Carson City, held their final sting on Dec. 28 to ensure local businesses aren’t selling alcoholic beverage products to minors.
The compliance check was held with the support of three volunteers aged 16 to 18 who were sent to screen eight local businesses. Only one failed.
Furlong told the Nevada Appeal his request for expansion is to acquire greater resources to keep vaping and tobacco products from being easily accessible to teens in storefronts.
“I have instructed our team to proceed and coordinate with the AG’s office and determine if we can likewise add vaping and tobacco with the alcohol,” Furlong said. “(The businesses) would get a citation.”
Furlong said he hoped to hear soon from the Attorney General’s Office on the compliance checks, which are conducted every six to eight weeks.