Garrett Reid sentenced
Garrett Reid was sentenced yesterday to two years in a relatively new state corrections program that combines incarceration and intensive drug treatment.
Garrett Reid was sentenced today to two years in a relatively new state corrections program that combines incarceration and intensive drug treatment.
The eldest son of Eagles coach Andy Reid received three years probation, was ordered to pay $30 a month supervision fees, and undergo random and frequent drug testing.
The Montgomery County court recommended Garrett Reid be sent to the State Intermediate Punishment Program (SIP), at the state prison in Chester County.
In January 2007, Reid, of Villanova, ran a red light in Plymouth Township and seriously injured a woman from Northumberland County. He told police he had used heroin before the crash.
His younger brother Britt Reid, 23, was arrested the same day in an unrelated road-rage incident.
At their simultaneous November sentencing for the accident and road rage incident, it was disclosed that Garrett Reid had smuggled a variety of pills into his prison cell by secreting them in his rectum.
About 700 inmates are enrolled in the SIP program, which began in 2005. Only defendants who have committed nonviolent crimes are eligible.
In the first phase of the program, defendants are sent to a state prison for seven months with at least four of those months in an intensive, inpatient drug-treatment program. It is followed by at least two months in a community-based treatment program. The inmate is then moved to a halfway house and receives outpatient treatment. The final stage is supervised reentry into the community.
Britt Reid, after serving about six months in jail, has been paroled into Montgomery County's drug treatment court to finish his sentence in the road-rage incident.
