A man accused of illegally selling bottles of booze from his Erie residence at a time when the state s liquor stores were closed because of COVID-19 was ordered on Wednesday to pay a fine.
Erie County Judge Daniel Brabender fined 25-year-old Tayvon M. Lindsey $500 and imposed no other penalties after Lindsey pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of unlawful sales of liquor.
The sentence followed an agreement reached between prosecutors and Lindsey s lawyer, Eric Hackwelder, at Lindsey s preliminary hearing in August. He waived the unlawful sales charge to court at the hearing after prosecutors withdrew one misdemeanor count of unlawful possession or transportation of liquor or alcohol.
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Authorities said DNA evidence connected him to the crime.
The defendant, Montelle J. Brown, 28, was held for court on charges including first-degree felony counts of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and burglary in the attack on the female student in her dorm room in Ravine-Narvik Hall on the Allegheny campus on Dec. 10, 2019.
Meadville police accuse Brown of raping and sexually assaulting the victim at gunpoint.
The attack remained unsolved for more than a year until authorities announced in February that DNA evidence collected in the rape investigation matched Brown s DNA.
Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz said in announcing the filing of charges against Brown that, at the time forensic evidence was initially tested in the rape case, Brown s DNA was not in the Combined DNA Index System database.