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.