GUILDERLAND — Joshua Bojkovic, who was arrested in March for selling drugs out of a motel office, pleaded guilty, on Dec. 4, to felony criminal possession of a controlled substance, in Albany County Court.

The 27-year-old was a manager and tenant of the Western Motel, at 2019 Western Ave., and was arrested on March 31, by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, after a months-long investigation.

The sheriff’s office had been watching the motel, a run-down building located directly behind the Western Diner, for three months, after receiving a tip from an informant about suspicious activity.

An undercover informant made several controlled-drug purchases out of the motel’s office.

When a search warrant was executed, a flurry of unanticipated activity was going on at the motel, and, in total, five people were arrested on drugs and weapons charges.

Bojkovic had nine ounces of powdered cocaine, a quantity of MDMA, and other narcotics in his possession at the time of his arrest.

He was charged, in March, with first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony; third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony; second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a felony; third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony; and two counts of second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor. He was ordered to be held at Albany County’s jail without bail.

On Dec. 4, he pleaded guilty to one county of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, before Judge Peter A. Lynch, in Albany County Court, according to a release from the Albany District Attorney’s office.

Bojkovic faces five years in state prison, followed by three years of post-release supervision, when he is sentenced on Jan. 29, 2015.

Assistant District Attorney Kurt Haas of the Street Crimes Unit is prosecuting the case.