TYNETH Santos Mariur will serve a four-month prison term for trespassing and pulling a blanket covering a woman who was sleeping while he stood beside her bed in the early morning of Nov. 12, 2022.
After Mariur, 19, pled guilty to criminal trespass and disturbing the peace, Superior Court Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo sentenced the defendant to six months’ imprisonment for criminal trespass, but all suspended except for four months, not subject to parole, early release, or work release.
For the charge of disturbing the peace, Mariur was sentenced to six months in prison, all suspended.
In his judgment and commitment order on Thursday, Judge Govendo also gave Mariur credit for the 86 days the defendant had already served since Nov. 12, 2022.
Mariur will be released from the custody of the Department of Corrections on March 24, 2023, at 8 a.m., the order stated.
Mariur will also pay a $200 fine and $25 in court cost to be paid during the period of his probation.
After serving his sentence, Mariur will be placed on supervised probation for two years beginning on March 24, 2023.
He will pay a probation fee in the amount of $240 and perform 40 hours of community work service.
Chief Public Defender Douglas Hartig represented the defendant while Chief Prosecutor Chester Hinds appeared for the government.
Background
According to the complaint against Mariur, Department of Public Safety officers responded on Nov. 12, 2022 to a call about an attempted rape in a residence in Chalan Kiya at around 4:11 a.m.
At the scene, the officers met with the victim who was in tears inside a car near her house.
She told police that she got home from work at around 10 p.m. and went to bed. She said she left her door unlocked in case her boyfriend would arrive.
At around 3 a.m., she was awakened by someone pulling off her blanket. She said when she looked up, she saw Mariur standing next to her by the bed and holding her blanket. She said she began screaming, stood up and asked him what he was doing there. She then made her way outside to her car where she called her boyfriend and the police.
Mariur, who police said smelled heavily of alcohol, claimed that he heard someone at the back of his house so he went over to the victim’s residence to ask the woman’s boyfriend, a police officer, to help him look around for “stealers.”
When no one responded to his knocks, Mariur said he entered the home and called out the woman’s boyfriend from the living room.
He said the woman woke up and asked him what he was doing in her house, to which he responded that he was looking for her boyfriend.
When the victim told Mariur that her boyfriend was outside their house, he went out to look for him. When he returned to the woman’s house, she told him to go back to his own house.
