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A former Lansdale woman will be sentenced in November after admitting to perjury and conspiring to hinder apprehension in connection to helping her boyfriend who was give life in prison for his role in the murder of a former Reading man on the Schuylkill River Trail in West Norriton in March 2023.
According to the Mercury, Hailey Anne Covelens, 21, of the 300 block of West Marshall Street, Norristown, and formerly of the 1100 block of Beechwood Avenue, Lansdale, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday.
Covelens also gave false testimony to the grand jury investigating the homicide, per the report.
Cody Kavon Reed, 24, is the boyfriend of Covelens, who was sentenced Monday to life imprisonment, per the article. His accomplice in the shooting death of Daquan Kennard Tucker, 25, on March 2, 2023, Marquise Alexander Johnson, 24, of East Johnson Street, Philadelphia, was also sentenced Monday.
Both were convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder, according to court documents.
By pleading guilty, Covelens admitted to aiding Johnson’s girlfriend, Brianna Rose Radley, 21, of Oxford Circle, Upper Gwynedd, in the getaway of their boyfriends after the homicide, per the report. The open guilty plea means Covelens has no deals with prosecutors regarding her potential sentence, which could be up to nine years in state prison.
Radley is awaiting sentencing in October after pleading guilty to perjury.
“Both Radley and Covelens were vague, non-committal and at times lied during their grand jury testimony,” county Detective Heather Long alleged in a criminal complaint. “Radley and Covelens supplied transportation, monetary funds and housing to Johnson and Reed, which allowed them to hide without detection for over a month.”
An investigation revealed Covelens used her credit card to buy food in New Jersey for the murderers.
The duo were eventually nabbed in Atlantic City by U.S. Marshals on April 6, after 34 days on the lam.
