LEONARDTOWN, Md. — The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Alcohol Enforcement Unit conducted tobacco and alcohol compliance checks at 44 businesses throughout St. Mary’s County on Aug. 12, 2026. Of the 44 businesses checked, 41 passed the compliance check by requesting identification and verifying the CI’s age.
The compliance checks were conducted using a 20-year-old Sheriff’s Office confidential informant, or CI, who attempted to purchase tobacco and/or alcohol products from the businesses. The CI was dressed in shorts and a short-sleeved shirt and was accompanied by Sergeant Robert Merritt of the Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Division. Sgt. Merritt, who was dressed in plain clothes, observed the transactions.
Three businesses failed the compliance check and sold a tobacco product to the CI without requesting identification or otherwise verifying the CI’s age. The clerks involved in the violations were issued DC-028 Uniform Civil Citations for selling tobacco products to a person under 21 years of age.
The businesses that did not pass the compliance check and failed to ask for identification:
- Dash In Store, 26065 Point Lookout Road, Leonardtown
- Family Dollar #21601, 40955 Merchants Lane Unit #23, Leonardtown
- Shivas Smoke Shop, 29015 Three Notch Road Unit 12, Mechanicsville
The businesses that passed the compliance check:
- Shell/Birdies, 25355 Point Lookout Road, Leonardtown
- Pal Liquor & Gas (Citco), 25965 Point Lookout Road, Leonardtown
- Centre Liquors, 40955 Merchants Lane Unit #9, Leonardtown
- Leonardtown Cigars, 40955 Merchants Lane Unit #14, Leonardtown
- Optimal Vapor, 40955 Merchants Lane Unit #16, Leonardtown
- Walgreens #19471, 40955 Merchants Lane, Leonardtown
- Food Lion Store 656, 40955 Merchants Lane Unit #656, Leonardtown
- Merchants Lane Fine Wine & Spirits, 40845 Merchants Lane, Leonardtown
- Dollar General #15445, 21907 Budds Creek Road, Leonardtown
- St. Mary’s Gas Station, 23950 Colton Point Road, Clements
- Captain Sam’s Liquors, 22664 Colton Point Road, Bushwood
- Murphy’s Town & Country, 21270 Abell Road, Avenue
- Village Liquors, 25731 Budds Creek Road, Chaptico
- Race N In, 36755 Stone Corner Lane, Mechanicsville
- Vape Pro, LLC, 29220 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- New Market Exxon, 29290 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- Sheetz, 37692 John Knight Road, Charlotte Hall
- Fred’s Liquor, 30075 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- Charlotte Tobacco & Grocery, 30090 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- Dash In Store, 30100 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- Vino 2 Wine & Liquors, 30320 Triangle Drive Unit #2, Charlotte Hall
- Walgreens #17672, 30283 Triangle Drive, Charlotte Hall
- Food Lion Store #1319, 30290 Mount Wolf Road, Charlotte Hall
- Wawa Store #588, 30320 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- Dollar General #12211, 30547 Potomac Way, Charlotte Hall
- Family Dollar #26129, 37670 Mohawk Drive, Charlotte Hall
- Atrium Spirit, 37680 Mohawk Drive #13&17, Charlotte Hall
- Lighthouse, 30411 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- Shell #30295, Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- 7 Eleven #21067, 29969 Three Notch Road, Charlotte Hall
- New Market Spirits, 29233 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- Vapors Lounge, 28934 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- 7-Eleven, 20835, 28240 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- A & B Liquors, 28260 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- DJ’s One Stop, 28035 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- Dollar General #13939, 27300 Old Village Road, Mechanicsville
- Wawa Store #583, 27605 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
- Shell/Korner Karryout, 27350 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville
Boatman’s Mini Mart, 41106 Oakville Road, Mechanicsville
Third Base, 28085 Point Lookout Road, Leonardtown
