A federal judge sentenced Savannah’s Marcus Groover to 151 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to distributing psychedelic mushrooms. Groover, 43, must also serve three years of supervised release, according to the sentence imposed by Chief U.S. District Judge R. Stan Baker.
The federal prison system does not offer parole.
The case began with a police encounter in April 2025. Court documents and testimony say Savannah officers found Groover asleep in a vehicle near a Montgomery Street business. They noticed marijuana, plastic bags and a digital scale—items associated with drug distribution, according to the records.
Officers tried several methods to wake Groover, then used a sternum rub. Prosecutors said officers saw a firearm beneath him on the driver’s seat as he woke. After detaining him, they searched the vehicle and found marijuana and dried mushrooms.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Coastal Regional Lab detected psilocin in the mushrooms, identifying it as a Schedule I controlled substance. The Savannah Police Department and the GBI investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Darron J. Hubbard and L. Alexander Hamner prosecuted the case.
Yolonda Harris
News Now Georgia
