Goldberg renews bid to crack down on campus drinking

Underage college students hoping to score a six-pack of beer, box of wine or bottle of booze, beware. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and Treasurer Deb Goldberg have launched this year’s “Operation Safe Campus” to put a dent in underage drinking on college campuses and in surrounding communities as the school year gets underway. Since enhanced enforcement programs launched in 2005, the ABCC has found 11,901 minors in possession of or transporting alcoholic beverages, 3,569 adults procuring alcohol for minors, and 1,690 individuals in possession of false identification. Officials have confiscated 5,507 cases of beer and 4,680 bottles of alcohol, which the ABCC said prevented delivery to 74,260 underage individuals.