Savannah Man Sentenced to 151 Months for Intending to Distribute Psilocin: Firearm and Mushrooms Found in His Car
Marcus Groover, 43, of Savannah, in Chatham County, Georgia, was sentenced on November 13 to 151 months in federal prison, just over 12 and a half years, for intending to distribute psilocin. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia said U.S. District Court Chief Judge R. Stan Baker imposed the sentence, followed by three years of supervised release, in an announcement by U.S. Attorney Margaret E. Heap. There is no parole in the federal system.
Groover had pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute psilocin, the hallucinogenic compound in psychedelic mushrooms and a Schedule I controlled substance.
According to court documents and testimony, in April 2025 Savannah Police Department officers encountered Groover asleep in his vehicle near a business on Montgomery Street. As officers contacted him, they observed marijuana and drug distribution items such as plastic bags and a digital scale. As officers attempted to wake him using a sternum rub, a firearm was observed beneath Groover on the driver's seat. After he was detained, a search of the vehicle found 11 grams of marijuana and 0.89 grams of dried mushrooms; testing by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Division of Forensic Sciences later confirmed the presence of psilocin.
U.S. Attorney Heap said that combining illegal drug distribution with an accessible firearm poses a severe and immediate danger to the community and to officers, and that the Savannah Police Department's vigilance removed the combination from the streets before anyone was harmed. The case was investigated by the Savannah Police Department, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and its Division of Forensic Sciences, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Darron J. Hubbard and L. Alexander Hamner. (Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Georgia)
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Georgia
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Photo: 图：位于 Savannah 的 Tomochichi 联邦大楼与联邦法院，本案由佐治亚州南区联邦检察官办公室起诉。Antony-22 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons，本图已裁为 16:9。 / Photo: The Tomochichi Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Savannah; this case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia. Photo by Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped to 16:9.
