Marriott Hotel technician fined and given 50 hours' service for 1.4 g of marijuana
A 23-year-old audio-visual technician at the Guyana Marriott Hotel in Georgetown pleaded guilty to possessing 1.4 grammes of marijuana found in his shirt pocket at work and was fined GYD$20,000 and ordered to do 50 hours of community service. He faces six months in jail if he does not complete the community service.
A 23-year-old audio-visual technician at the Guyana Marriott Hotel Georgetown
was fined GYD$20,000 and sentenced to 50 hours of community service by a
Georgetown court on 2 February 2016.[1]The court was told that police
arrested him at about 1 AM on 28 January 2016 after 1.4 grammes of marijuana was
found in his left shirt pocket at the Marriott Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown.[1]He pleaded guilty to possessing the marijuana, and was ordered to serve the
community service at the Georgetown City Constabulary.[1]
The court said that if the community service is not performed he would be jailed
for six months.[1]Police prosecutor Deniro Jones told the court that officers
found the narcotic in his left side shirt pocket when they arrested him.[1]He
told the court he had kept the marijuana on his person instead of in his locker
because of the hotel’s policy, and asked for leniency, saying he had applied for
a job in Chicago and feared the case would harm his chances.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 2 February 2016 sentencing date comes from the article's phrase that the fine and sentence were imposed "Tuesday"; the article was published that day.
Only one account of this case was found; no second outlet or court statement was available.
The sentencing court is described only as a Georgetown court (the community service was assigned to the Georgetown City Constabulary); the magistrate is not named.
No appeal, and no outcome of the Chicago job application, was reported.
No photo of the event could be listed: the page's only image is a portrait of the accused, which is left out.
Timothy Mc Garrell, 24, pleaded guilty at the Vigilance Magistrate's Court on 18 February 2026 to introducing cannabis into the Lusignan Prison hidden under his slipper soles. Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce sentenced him to three years in prison and fined him $30,000.
Nishart Samsundar, 20, was jailed for four years and fined G$1,778,400 on 31 January 2024 after pleading guilty to trafficking and cultivation following a CANU raid on a cannabis farm at Hauraruni Village.
Arrested 2Plants destroyed 5,200Cannabis 1.976 kgPrison 4 years
Latchman Sankar, 39, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined G$49.6 million on 18 January 2024 after admitting possession of more than 55 kg of cannabis. CANU officers had arrested him with Sanya Ramrattan three days earlier at Hubu Parika, seizing 102 parcels valued at about G$20 million.
Guyana police arrested three Venezuelans at Arakaka on 20 October 2023 after finding three pistols, ammunition, 64.7 grams of marijuana and cocaine in a house search. One man pleaded guilty and was jailed for three years for marijuana trafficking plus further terms for cocaine and weapons, while the other two denied the charges.
