Texas Arresting People in Bars for Being Drunk
Undercover agents will bust you in a bar for public intoxication--so you don't get behind the wheel of a car, or something like that.Undercover agents will bust you in a bar for public intoxication–so you don’t get behind the wheel of a car, or something like that.
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Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.
The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission’s Carolyn Beck.
Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Beck said.
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