SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police have arrested a man who allegedly was running a black market booze operation from his East Side home.
Anthony Stevenson, 48, was taken into custody after an undercover operation that lasted at least two months.
In an arrest warrant affidavit, police said they had received word that Stevenson was buying and selling stolen booze on the street.
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Undercover detectives, posing as thieves sold Stevenson bottles of booze at a deep discount on three different occasions, telling him that the liquor was stolen, the affidavit said.
In the latest transaction, which occurred Tuesday, detectives sold him more than $3,800 worth of alcohol for $300, according to the affidavit.
They said they then watched each time as he resold it to someone else for a profit.
Stevenson faces a charge of organized retail theft.