Two sell cigs to minor in Rock Falls compliance checks

Created: Saturday, March 2, 2013 1:15 a.m. CDT

ROCK FALLS – Clerks at two businesses sold cigarettes to minors during tobacco compliance checks Monday, Rock Falls police said.

Barbara Brown, 72, of Rock Falls, sold cigarettes to a minor at a Walgreens store, 1700 First Ave., and Shilo Fielding, 38, of Rock Falls, did the same at a Mobil station, 201 12th Ave., police said.

Police sent a teenager younger than 18 into stores to buy cigarettes.

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