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<br />CERTIFIED MAIL – RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED <br /> <br /> <br />October 27, 2025 <br /> <br />Elk River Tobacco, LLC. Noman Husein <br />1148 111th Lane NE 19262 Evans Street <br />Blaine, MN 55434 Elk River, MN 55330 <br /> <br />Re: Fourth Offense: Tobacco Sales Violations to Persons Under Age 21 <br />1. Hearing and Notice of Suspension and Potential License Revocation <br />2. Penalty Fee $1,000 Due Wednesday, November 26 <br /> <br />To Noman Husein: <br /> <br />On Friday, October 17, 2025, the Elk River Police Department, working with Sherburne <br />County Health and Human Services, conducted compliance checks and cited Elk River <br />Tobacco, LLC/Elk River Tobacco for selling tobacco products to a person under the age of <br />21. This is your fourth violation within a 36-month period <br /> <br />On Tuesday, June 18, 2024, the Elk River Police Department, working with Sherburne <br />County Health and Human Services, conducted compliance checks and cited Elk River <br />Tobacco, LLC/Elk River Tobacco for selling tobacco products to a person under the age of <br />21. This was your third violation within a 36-month period. <br /> <br />On Thursday, August 8, 2024, the Elk River Police Department again conducted a <br />compliance check and cited your establishment for selling tobacco products to a person <br />under the age of 21. This was your second violation within a 36-month period. <br /> <br />In a further review our records, we determined there was a violation that occurred Monday, <br />December 5, 2022, which would have been your first violation to have occurred within a 36- <br />month period. <br /> <br />Due to the four citations, you are in violation of Minnesota Statute 461.12, Subd. 2: <br />Administrative penalty for sales and furnishing; licensees, which provides in relevant part: <br /> <br />“If a licensee or employee of a licensee sells, gives, or otherwise furnishes <br />tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices, or nicotine or <br />lobelia delivery products to a person under the age of 21 years, or violates <br />any other provision of this chapter, the licensee shall be charged an <br />administrative penalty of $300 for the first violation. An administrative <br />penalty of $600 must be imposed for a second violation at the same location <br />within 36 months after the initial violation. For a third or any subsequent <br />violation at the same location within 36 months after the initial violation, an <br />administrative penalty of $1,000 must be imposed, and the licensee's <br />authority to sell tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices, <br />Page 268 of 379