I’m guessing Union thugs.
I don’t know about VA but here in PA which is also an ABC Commonwealth meaning the Commonwealth controls the sale of alcohol via “state stores”, the Liquor Control Board (LCB) workers are all unionized and I would guess that includes the “agents” who aren’t really the police but are given police powers when it comes to the sale and consumption of alcohol.
From what I understand, beer and wine can be sold in some grocery and convenience stores in VA and there are now a very limited number of grocery stores here in PA that can sell beer but here in PA most beer is sold by specially licensed “distributorships” but they can only legally sell beer by the case. All liquor and wine is sold only through LCB stores in PA where you are waited on by unionized Commonwealth workers with all the charm and attention to customer satisfaction that you would expect to find at PennDot when you go to get your driver’s license renewed.
For the past couple of years here in PA there has been legislation proposed to completely privatize the LCB stores and you should hear the commercials that their union has been running – the scare tactics, among them that without the highly trained LCB workers, little children will see their parents die because of drunk drivers – I’m not kidding.
Any decent Defense lawyer will get her and his future daughters college paid off with this case.