Texas Arresting People In Bars For Being Drunk
POSTED: Thursday, March 23, 2006
UPDATED: 8:04 am EST March 23,
2006
Undercover agents in Texas are arresting people inside bars who seem to be drunk in a new controversial police tactic.
Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission agents said they are going undercover in bars around Texas and taking intoxicated people into custody, Local 6 News reported Thursday.
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The first sting operation was conducted in a Dallas suburb, where agents arrested 30 people for public intoxication in bars, according to a Reuters report.Officials hope the crackdown will keep people from leaving bars and driving drunk or committing a crime, Local 6 News reported.Being in a bar does not exempt people from the state laws against public drunkenness, an official said in a report.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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IMAGES: More strange stories, images MOST POPULAR: Six-Legged Lamb Born The first sting operation was conducted in a Dallas suburb, where agents arrested 30 people for public intoxication in bars, according to a Reuters report.Officials hope the crackdown will keep people from leaving bars and driving drunk or committing a crime, Local 6 News reported.Being in a bar does not exempt people from the state laws against public drunkenness, an official said in a report.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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