Clements Bar Alcohol License Suspended After Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales Investigation

CLEMENTS (CBS13) — A barroom successful a tiny San Joaquin County municipality has had its liquor licence suspended aft an probe into allegations that it was selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards.

The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says intoxicant income astatine the Old Corner Saloon successful Clements are prohibited arsenic of Nov. 1.

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ABC says Old Corner Saloon’s proprietor has signed a stipulation that accepts the disciplinary enactment alternatively of an administrative hearing.

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Earlier successful the year, undercover agents confirmed that fake COVID-19 vaccination cards were being sold astatine the bar. The undercover agents were capable to bargain fraudulent vaccine cards connected respective occasions, ABC says.

The proprietor of the barroom was subsequently arrested.

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Alcohol income astatine the barroom are suspended for astatine slightest 75 days and volition enactment suspended until the licence is transferred to idiosyncratic else. The licence tin perchance beryllium revoked if it’s not transferred wrong six months.

CBS13 Staff