ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Atlantic City police arrested a suspected known drug dealer during a warrant search fo a hotel room on Thursday.
An approved search warrant was executed by detectives from the Special Investigations Section and members of the Atlantic City Police Department’s SWAT Team on Thursday at a hotel room located in the 3000 block of Pacific Avenue by members of the SWAT Team.
Detectives observed the suspects, Sheldon Ward and Jamal Johnson, exiting the room prior to the execution of the search warrant, at which point they were detained. The subsequent search of the hotel room yielded distribution quantities of cocaine packaged for street sale as well as numerous items used for packaging illegal narcotics, including scales and hundreds of empty wax folds used for packaging illegal narcotics.
In addition, approximately $1,000 in US currency, reportedly the proceeds of narcotic sales, was seized.
The investigation was directed by Detective Chris Dodson with assistance from the FBI Atlantic City Safe Streets Task Force. The arrested was identified as Sheldon Ward, 24, of Atlantic City.