Waight pleaded guilty in November of 2010 to keeping an unlicensed firearm and keeping unlicensed ammunition after police busted him and his 11 year-old brother inside a vehicle with a gun stashed under the driver's seat. He took the rap so that his brother could be freed of the charges.

The sitting magistrate sentenced him to serve 2 years on each count, which was to run consecutively. His attorney, Brian Neal, argued to Justice Dennis Hanomansingh that Waight's sentence should be reduced because the magistrate could have handed down a sentence of 2 concurrent terms of 2 years for both counts.

He also told the court that there were no other aggravating factors against Waight because the gun was not used to commit a crime, and that his guilty plea saved the court time and resources.

Justice Hanomansingh agreed with Neal despite the objections from Crown Counsel Kaycia Grant, the DPP's representative. Justice Hanomansingh then set aside that previous sentence aside and ordered that Waight should serve 2 years.