Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 25-year-old Khaled Khan of Buffalo pleaded guilty this morning before State Supreme Court Justice Paul B. Wojtaszek to two counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree (Class “B” felonies). The defendant pleaded guilty to the highest count in the indictment against him ahead of a jury trial, which was scheduled to begin next week.

The defendant was the subject of a joint investigation conducted by the United State Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Buffalo Office and the Erie County District Attorney’s Office following numerous fatal overdoses that occurred between Spring and Fall 2018 in the Buffalo region. The defendant is believed to have supplied a potentially deadly mixture of heroin, containing fentanyl and tramadol, to drug dealers and users in the Buffalo area.

Today, the defendant admitted to selling an amount of fentanyl-laced heroin to the informant on two separate occasions. The crimes occurred at the defendant’s home on March 21, 2019 and at another location in the City of Buffalo on April 22, 2019.

Khan faces a maximum of 30 years in prison when he is sentenced as a second felony offender on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. He continues to remain released without bail.

DA Flynn commends the DEA Buffalo Office, Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Erie County Central Police Services Laboratory their work in this investigation. 

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney James W. Mansour, II of the Narcotics Unit and Rachel Kranitz McPhee of the Special Victims/Domestic Violence Bureau.