GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A former Green Bay Packers’ player has been ordered to pay a $500 fine after pleading no contest to a marijuana possession charge Monday.
Sam Shields was facing up to six months in jail for the October incident, where police smelled marijuana as they were walking up to his house for a check-up visit that stemmed from previous drug-related activity.
The cornerback admitted to the officers that there was marijuana in his house and showed them where to find the illegal drugs.
Before being released in February, Shields spent all seven NFL seasons in Green Bay.
He missed most of the 2016 campaign with a concussion sustained in the team’s week one win in Jacksonville.
