DATE/TIME: Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 5:00-10:00p.m.
INCIDENT: Tobacco Minor Decoy Operation
LOCATION: City of Chino Hills
SUSPECT(S): Kumphak Tep, 39-year-old Male, Resident of Pomona, CA
VICTIM(S): State of California
SUMMARY: On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, between the hours of 5:00-10:00 p.m., personnel from the Chino Hills Station Multiple Enforcement Team (MET), conducted a tobacco Minor Decoy operation within the City of Chino Hills. The operation was funded by a tobacco grant, awarded through the Department of Justice (DOJ). The operation consisted of a decoy under the age of 21, who was used to contact store clerks at 14 different locations in the city of Chino Hills, to attempt to purchase tobacco products. One clerk, Kumphak Tep, agreed to sell tobacco to the underage decoy and was issued a citation for PC 308(a)(1), furnishing tobacco to persons under 21 years of age.
The Chino Hills Station will continue Shoulder Tap and Minor Decoy operations in accordance with the California Department of Justice Tobacco Grant Program in the near future.
Refer: Sgt. Ian Golditch
Station: Chino Hills Station
Phone No. 909-364-2000
Case No. 222202235
SHANNON D. DICUS, Sheriff-Coroner
San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department
