July 11, 2008 04:00 pm
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Staff Reports
Four bartenders in Lockport, Niagara Falls, Newfane and Lewiston were arrested Wednesday night as park of a muti-agency underage drinking sting.
In Lockport, officials arrested Andrea Sherwood, 23, of Lockport, a bartender at Taboo on Main Street.
Shari Moore, 27, of Burt, a bartender at Scrupples on South Main Street in Newfane, was also arrested.
In Niagara Falls, Christine Weber, 41, of Niagara Falls, a bartender at the Model City Inn on Model City Road; Joseph Olscamp, 43, of Wheatfield, a bartender at The Office on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls, were each arrested.
Each was charged with unlawfully dealing with a child and selling alcohol to a person under the age of 21.
The effort was a joint operation of the New York State Police, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Department, the New York State Liquor Authority and the Niagara County Probation Department.
Fifteen bars across the county were targeted, according to a press release from the state police.
Uniformed and plain-clothed troopers participated in the sting, along with operatives under the age of 21.
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