33-Year-Old Atlantic City Man Will Spend Nearly 2 Decades For 2022, Atlantic County Crime Spree

Friday, July 19, 2024, 7:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.- On Thursday, July 11, 2024, Glen Graves, 33, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, appeared in Atlantic County Superior Court and was sentenced on charges of Kidnapping, Possession of a Handgun, and resisting Arrest. 

     In accordance with a previously entered guilty plea, the Honorable Bernard E. DeLury, J.S.C. sentenced Graves to eighteen years in New Jersey State Prison, subject to the No Early Release Act, which requires Graves to serve 85% of his custodial term before becoming eligible for parole.

     The sentence stems from multiple incidents that occurred back in 2022. According to court filings, on the morning of December 27, 2022, Graves forcibly entered an apartment in Atlantic City, New Jersey, while armed with a handgun. Graves ransacked the apartment and then forced the resident, at gunpoint, to drive to a local bank. While seated in the back seat of the victim’s car, Graves forced the victim to withdraw $600 from the bank’s drive-through ATM. 

     Shortly thereafter, Graves fled from the victim’s car after police received a 911 Emergency Call. Graves fled from police on foot and discarded a pair of latex gloves and a loaded handgun that had been defaced to remove the serial number.

     Detectives identified Graves through surveillance footage, witness statements, and a positive DNA match in the latex gloves recovered by police.

     Graves was also sentenced to concurrent prison terms on charges he committed prior to the kidnapping. On August 5, 2022, Graves fired a handgun at an occupied vehicle that had been driving through the Brigantine Homes in Atlantic City. Additionally, on December 4, 2022, Graves eluded Police Officers from Egg Harbor City when he fled from a motor vehicle stop while in a stolen motor vehicle.

     Graves, after hiding out for nearly two years, was apprehended by federal and state authorities earlier this year.