Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 30 year-old Gregory Covington of 2650 Seneca Street in West Seneca pleaded guilty today to two counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3^rd Degree and one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 2^nd Degree before Acting Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia.  

Covington was the subject of an investigation by the New York State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team.  On April 22^nd and April 29^th of 2016, Covington sold a dangerous mixture of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl to an undercover state trooper.  

On May 5^th of 2016, the State Police arrested Covington and executed a search warrant on his vehicle.  They recovered a loaded .380 semi-automatic pistol underneath the gear shifter plate in the vehicle.  

Covington faces a maximum prison sentence of 45 years when he is sentenced before Justice Buscaglia on March 1, 2017, at 11:15 a.m.  

The case was successfully prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys John P. Gerken, Jr. and Lauren Nash, who are assigned to DA Flynn’s newly-formed Narcotics Bureau.