The former co-owner of a Mayfield strip club who admitted to allowing prostitution and gambling at the business will be allowed to serve the rest of his sentence on house
In his regular job, state Trooper Robert E. Covington Jr. enforced state gambling laws at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Plains Twp.
In his spare time, Covington co-owned and operated the Sinners Swing strip club in Mayfield where he conspired with others to break the same laws and promote prostitution, according to a statewide grand jury presentment unveiled Thursday.
Troopers charged Covington, 48, of Olyphant; his business partner in the strip club, David P. Klem, 39, of Archbald, a convicted drug dealer; Michael P. Ball, 49, of Dalton, Covingtonâs friend; and Deanna E. Tallo, 32, of Throop, a stripper at the club.
State police suspended Covington, a 13-year force veteran whose trooper salary was $98,228, without pay. He was on unspecified restricted duty before that.
PSP trooper charged for alleged role in illegal activity at strip club
A state trooper has been arrested on charges stemming from his alleged involvement in a prostitution, gambling and money laundering scheme that ran out of a Lackawanna County strip club.
Trooper Robert E. Covington Jr., co-owner of Sinners Swing Gentlemen’s Club in Mayfield, faces eight charges, the Pennsylvania State Police announced Thursday.
The PSP and prosecutors from the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office investigated the matter after the initial tip, brought by Troop R to the PSP Bureau of Criminal Investigation, “indicated the club was being used to promote illicit activity.”
Updated: 12:07 PM EST February 11, 2021
MAYFIELD, Pa. A Pennsylvania State Police trooper is among four men arrested for alleged involvement in illegal activity at a Lackawanna County gentlemen s club, State Police announced Thursday.
Trooper Robert E. Covington Jr., 48, a 13-year veteran of the police force, was allegedly co-owner of the Sinners Swing Gentlemen s Club in Mayfield Borough, police say.
He, along with the club s other co-owner and two employees, are accused of promoting illicit activity involving prostitution, gambling, and money laundering, according to police.
Covington was assigned to the Bureau of Gaming Enforcement s Pocono Downs Wilkes-Barre Office, State Police said in a press release announcing the charges. He had been on restricted duty during the investigation of the allegations against him and is currently suspended without pay pending resolution of the charges, according to State Police.