The Trenton Police Department has cited multiple businesses for selling alcohol to minors.

According to Trenton Chief of Police Tommy Wright the police department participated in an underage alcohol compliance check of local businesses Friday as part of the Midland Empire Alcohol Task Force.

The Task Force is based out of St. Joseph and uses minor employees of the task force to attempt to purchase alcohol from local businesses. If a business sells to a minor officers will enter the store and issue tickets to the employee.

During Friday’s operation there were three stores cited in the City of Trenton where alcohol was sold to a minor. There were twelve locations that did not sell alcohol to the minor.

Chief Wright indicates that the operation was successful in preventing future instances of alcohol being sold to minors. Additionally the Chief indicates that it was a large improvement from the November operation in which nearly 50% of the stores sold alcohol to the minor.

Wright also indicated that this operation was a follow up to the operation held in November of 2014 and the Responsible Alcohol Server training held in February 2015.