Man pleads guilty to using homicide victim's bank card
A Butler Township man, charged with using the bank debit card of a man killed last year in his East Butler home, pleaded guilty in Butler County Court on Wednesday.
Raheem R. Archer, 24, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia and receiving stolen property before Judge Timothy McCune.
The plea agreement calls for a sentence of 24 months probation, restitution fines and costs. He is scheduled for sentencing on Dec. 28.
Archer was initially charged with felony possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance, receiving stolen property and access device fraud, after the investigation into the use of 74-year-old homicide victim James S. Martin's bank card.
The paraphernalia charge to which he pleaded was later added, and the remaining charges will be dismissed as part of the plea.
Archer was charged alongside Christopher M. Cannon, 27, of Butler, following an investigation into the use of Miller's bank card after his body was found on Dec. 31.
Cannon was later charged with stabbing Martin to death on Dec. 30.
A full story will appear in Friday's Butler Eagle.
