The Troy Police Department caught a local convenience store in the act of selling alcohol to a minor last Friday and is handing the case over to the Alabama ABC Board.

Troy Police Chief Randall Barr said officers discovered the illegal sale while monitoring the convenience store located on U.S. 231..

“We observed a guy that appeared to be under the age of 21 purchase alcohol at the convenience store and identified him and found that the was under the age,” Barr said.

Barr said his department has begun performing routine checks on these convenience stores after residents reported illegal sales to minors.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the ABC Board had been the ones to typically take care of these kinds of incidents, but Barr said after the agencies became spread thin recently, his department decided to take on the role of policing the stores.

“There is no circumstance where that is OK. We want to do everything we can to prevent sale to a minor,” Barr said.

Barr did not identify the minor who purchased the alcohol or the convenience store and said that his department did not make an arrest.