Brian Hodgers acknowledged that he sold beer to a minor in a state request. Now, he says that opponents want to “fall” as a criminal

House candidate Brian Hodgers He sent an E -mail explosion saying that the political opponents made the arrest file. “I have never been arrested,” Hodgers wrote.

But he recognized in a request for a real estate license in Florida, that he once pleaded any competition to sell a minor beer.

Hodgers is one of the three candidates who apply in the Republican mayor in a District House 32 Special Elections To replace the representative out. Debbie Mayfield.

Pulled out of the E -Email explosion after it appeared in a Florida Today forum in which opponent Terry Cronin He said, “I am the only candidate who has no criminal record.” Also, Hodgers alludes to letters to the attacks paid from “one of our opponents and its liberal allies”, who are trying to “fall as having a criminal past”.

“On the problem of the criminal past, my father and I had a gas station together about 30 years ago,” wrote Hodgers. “One of our officials was quoted for the sale of a minor adult beer, and our business had to pay a fine. I have never been arrested. My opponent does things and uses a forged document to suggest that I was arrested. “

But a search for Lexisnexis shows the judicial documents indicating that it was cited in May 1996 and had to appear in court in a second-degree crime. The document indicated that he promised “Nolo Content” and the award was finally detained. The document lists a two -day prison sentence.

A license request with Department of Business and Professional Regulations reveals additional details. Part of this form asks if the applicants have ever been convicted of a crime, were found guilty or did not plead any competition. Hodgers scored “yes”.

He also establishes a more detailed narrative that explains the crime and acknowledges that the cited official was himself.

“I also realize that my request can be maintained because of a criminal offense in which I received award with Held to sell an alcoholic beverage to a minor, while working for a gas station comfort in 1996,” Hodgers wrote in the application.

In the candidate’s forum, Hodgers said that there is no registration about the fact that he was arrested with Broward County, who did not publish records on his site dating back to 1996. He said that Cronin has “beautified” a minor crime. He said again that he and his father owned more gas stations, and he blamed someone else for the crime again.

“I had an official who was caught, I think what you would call a stinging operation in which they brought a mining person and sold a beer to this minor person. And I, as a business owner, received a summons, ”said Hodgers. He has ever denied “prison days”.

But this differs significantly from the account that he wrote manually in the state request for his license. There, he explained that he was the one who made the sale.

“As a cashier at a gas station, I wrongly sold a beer box to a minor,” he wrote. “I paid the costs and the award was reunited.”

The request also includes additional written explanations about the incident, including the fact that a judge informed him that the stings were led by the office of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and that the incident was a “lesson to be learned”, but “it should not appear in my record”. “I have never had problems and I have a clean registration, except for this court,” wrote Hodgers.

The Lexisnexis document shows that the costs have risen to only $ 45. Hodgers was 23 years old at the time of the crime.

FL DBPR – License – Hodgers (29) of Jacob Ogles on the scribe

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