{"id":615307,"date":"2026-04-30T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615307\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:31:09","slug":"atlantic-city-man-faces-four-years-in-five-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615307\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic City man faces four years in five cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingac.com\/photos\/2026\/apr\/30\/220229\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shelton_archer_t800.JPG\" alt=\"Shelton Archer (Atlantic County Justice Facility)\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                        Shelton Archer (Atlantic County Justice Facility)<\/p>\n<p>An Atlantic City man faces four years in prison after admitting to five drug cases spanning more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton Archer, who turned 22 in jail this month, pleaded guilty this week to five counts, including three third-degree drug distribution charges and fourth-degree joyriding.<\/p>\n<p>He was 19 years old when he was first arrested Sept. 2, 2023, after fleeing from an Atlantic City car stop,.<\/p>\n<p>He was apprehended a short time later, and found with 143 wax folds of a heroin-fentanyl mix. Archer was briefly jailed on a warrant, and then released.<\/p>\n<p>He had 48 wax folds of heroin-fentanyl Dec. 27, 2024, when Atlantic City police arrested him again. This time he was released on a summons, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Less than five months later, a traffic stop led to a K-9 sniff of the vehicle Archer was driving May 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The dog&#8217;s positive indication led to more heroin-fentanyl, along with marijuana and mushrooms. He was again released on a summons.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, he was stopped when police saw the vehicle he was a passenger in had been reported stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Archer admitted during his plea that he knew the vehicle he was riding in July 17, 2025 was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>He has been jailed since his last arrest Dec. 6, when Archer was found asleep in the driver&#8217;s seat of an idling vehicle in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<p>Officers saw a wax fold in plain view, leading to a search that found a total of 206 wax folds containing a mixture of heroin and fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Archer admitted during his plea that he intended to distribute all of the drugs that were found during his arrests.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a four-year term when he is sentenced June. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shelton Archer (Atlantic County Justice Facility) An Atlantic City man faces four years in prison after admitting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-615307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}