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Directing the Department of Safety and Inspections to proceed with adverse action and the imposition of a $500 matrix penalty against 1NE Stop Food Market INC d/b/a 1NE Stop Food Market INC (License ID #20220001938) for the premises located at 604 Western Ave N.
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WHEREAS, the Tobacco Shop license (“License”) held by 1NE Stop Food Market INC d/b/a 1NE Stop Food Market INC under (License ID #20220001938) for the premises located at 604 Western Ave N., in Saint Paul (“Licensed Premises”), which is owned by Ahsan Khalid was the subject of adverse action pursuant to an June 24, 2025, Notice of Violation and Request for Imposition of $500 Matrix Penalty (“Notice”) (Exhibit # 1) in which the Department of Safety and Inspections (“Department”) provided notice to the Licensee of its intent to request imposition of a $500 matrix penalty because the Licensee failed an Tobacco Underage Buyers compliance Check on May 7, 2025; and
WHEREAS, the Notice detailed that on May 7, 2025, at 11:22 a.m. DSI Inspector, Luis Sanchez-Panadero conducted a Tobacco Underage Buyers Compliance Check at the Licensed Premises. As part of the Tobacco Underage Buyers Compliance Check, a twenty-year-old male, retained by DSI to perform underage compliance checks, entered the Licensed Premises to purchase cigarettes. He was not asked to show his identification nor was he asked of his age. Nevertheless, the clerk sold him a pack of Marlboro Light Cigarettes; and
WHEREAS, On May 8, 2025, a letter was sent to Ahsan Khalid, 1NE Stop Food Market INC, and to Thomas Huynh, from DSI Inspector, Joseph Voyda. The letter informed the Licensee that DSI had recently conducted a State mandated annual inspection and the person under the age of 21, hired by DSI to conduct the check was successfully able to purchase cigarettes; and
WHEREAS, the Notice laid out the basis for adverse action and the Legislative Code upon which the Department was relying as follows:
Saint Paul Legislative Code §31...
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