Bar Employee Pleads In Underage Alcohol Case; Purchaser Arrested

May 20, 2011

A Century bar employee has entered a plea on a charged that she sold alcohol to a man under 21, and the purchaser has now been arrested.

Daniel Dontavious Woods, 20, of Flomaton was arrested on an outstanding warrant for liquor possession by a person under 21. He was released from the Escambia County Jail on $250 bond.

Bonnie Blackmon, 29, of Jay, was charged in March with selling alcohol to a person under 21. Blackmon pleaded no contest to the charge last week and adjudication was withheld. She was ordered to pay $303 in court costs.

An Escambia County deputy observed Woods at the drive-up window of Odoms Bar in Century with a blue Pontiac parked beside him. As he turned around to pass the bar again, the deputy said the same vehicle nearly collided with his patrol vehicle on Ivey Street.

After conducting a traffic stop on the car, the deputy determined that Woods, the driver, was the person that had made the alcohol purchase moments before at Odoms Bar. There were, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report, three other people in the vehicle, all under the age of 21.

Woods said the person that sold him the Seagrams Blue Beast for about $13 did not ask for his identification. According to the ECSO report, Blackmon admitted selling a bottle of Blue Beast “to a black guy”. She first told the deputy that she asked for his identification. She later recanted that statement and admitted to deputies that she did not card him, but she said she did recognize him from previous purchases in which he was carded.

The Seagrams Blue Beast was seized as evidence.

Comments

7 Responses to “Bar Employee Pleads In Underage Alcohol Case; Purchaser Arrested”

  1. haley blackmon on January 19th, 2016 1:59 pm

    Dear mom, I love and miss you I hope if you are reading this see if they would let you have me and I can live at nana’s while you work I want to be with you not George & Trudie any longer please I need my real mom in my life really bad.

    Love always,
    Haley Blackmon Your Daughter

  2. tj on May 23rd, 2011 8:23 am

    the guy looks 30 years old to me!!!!!!!!!!!
    would you have carded him? hmmm.

  3. 429SCJ on May 23rd, 2011 7:22 am

    Alcohol, Its a bad drug!

  4. Dan on May 21st, 2011 7:45 am

    The bartender took an unexcusable shortcut.
    She needs to feel the full repercussion under the law !!!

  5. David Huie Green on May 20th, 2011 6:05 pm

    REGARDING:
    “the guy is old enough to fight in a war and vote”

    If he’d been fighting in a war, we’d cut him some slack. Still…..drinking and driving isn’t very civic minded.

    David for doing away with age limits
    but NOT while driving at any age

  6. joe on May 20th, 2011 11:37 am

    the drinking age should go back to 18. that is what it was when I was growing up. there were fewer underage offenders then.
    I agree there is a problem when you can fight a war and die for your country but god forbid you have a beer!
    perhaps the answer is for those in uniform (military) to be allowed to buy and consume at the age of 18. perhaps more would join the service then. they would be legal when they got out.

  7. huh on May 20th, 2011 10:49 am

    1 year off, the guy is old enough to fight in a war and vote, but yet not drink. Our country has really lost its liberties

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