Clyde's Tower Oaks Lodge Target of Police Alcohol Sting

From Montgomery Community Media:

Clyde’s Tower Oaks Lodge restaurant is suspending its popular Monday drink specials after a Montgomery County Police sting resulted in several alcohol-related citations at the restaurant.

On Aug. 11 starting at about 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. on Aug. 12, officers from the Montgomery County Police Department-Alcohol Initiatives Section and an inspector from the Department of Liquor Control monitored Clyde’s restaurant and bar for alcohol violations. Plainclothes officers watched activity inside and outside of the restaurant at 2 Preserve Parkway in Rockville, according to a release from police.

Police reported the following citations and arrests:

· 7 civil citations issued for possession of fake identification. All seven patrons were under 21 years old.

· 5 civil citations issued for possession of alcohol under 21. All 5 patrons were drinking inside the establishment and all had a blood alcohol content over 0.10.

· 5 DUI arrests of patrons who said they had been drinking at Clyde’s-Tower Oaks Lodge. Blood alcohol Contents ranged from .09 to .22. The legal limit in Maryland is .08.

Claude Andersen, operations manager for the company, told MyMCMedia Friday that the Monday drink special will be suspended indefinitely.

“We want to make sure this never happens again,” Andersen said. “We are pretty upset by this.”

Andersen said his employees have called the police themselves for help in spotting fake IDs, which he said have gotten hard to distinguish from real ones.

“We card everybody. IDs have gotten so good they got past us,” Andersen said.