Convicted gunman Terrell Tarior Mayers was on Friday ordered to pay a fine of $25 000 for having an illegal gun and ammunition four years ago.
Of that amount, he had to pay $15 000 immediately and will have three months to pay the remaining $10 000. If he fails to pay the balance, he will spend five years in prison, which is the remainder of an eight-year starting sentence.
The Hudson Alley, Reed Street, St Michael resident had pleaded guilty to having possession of a 9 mm pistol and seven rounds of ammunition on September 4, 2018.
“I want to apologise to you, the court [and] everybody that I let down and ask for a little leniency,” Mayers told the No. 3 Supreme Court.
Senior State Counsel Rudolph Burnett disclosed that the illegal weapon and ammunition were discovered when police executed a search warrant at Mayers’ residence which he shared with a woman. Some 19.24 grammes of cannabis were also found.
When asked to account, the woman denied having knowledge of the gun, while Mayers said: “I want to admit that the items found in the house are mine . . . . She has no knowledge of them”.
In his submissions on sentencing, Burnett urged the court to impose a fine of $15 000 to be paid in three months or five years in prison for the gun charge, and $10 000 for the ammunition to be paid forthwith with the same alternative prison sentence.
For the drug possession charge, he asked for a conviction, reprimand, and discharge (CRD), and a $3 000 fine payable in three months, with the alternative of three months in prison, on the trafficking offence.
However, Mayers’ attorney Arthur Holder countered that the drug charges were summary matters which would attract CRDs “in the grand scheme of things”.
For the gun, he asked for a fine of $15 000 and an additional $5 000 for the ammunition.
Justice Carlisle Greaves, in passing sentence, gave Mayers a starting point of eight years in prison. From there, the judge deducted the 11 months that Mayers spent on remand, rounding it to a year, and credited him for his guilty pleas. He was left with five years in prison.
Mayers was sentenced to a $15 000 forthwith fine for the gun and $10 000 in three months for the ammunition or face the alternative time in prison.
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