NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.
"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.
"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.
Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in "the 'hood," to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.
O'Neill said that searches of the Reid family's house and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.
While police found only weapons and ammunition -- and not drugs -- at the house, O'Neill apparently based his remarks on Britt Reid's statement that he once mistakenly grabbed a Vicodin tablet instead of health supplements out of a pill drawer at the home.
He said both boys had been overmedicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.
"It sounds more or less like a drug emporium there with the drugs all over the house, and you're an addict," O'Neill told Britt Reid.
Police found a shotgun and hollow-point bullets along with cocaine, marijuana and OxyContin, a painkiller, in the vehicle Britt Reid was driving during a Jan. 30 road-rage encounter, and later found a handgun at the house that they believe he had brandished at the other driver.
They found vials of heroin and steroids, more than 200 pills and a drug scale in Garrett Reid's car the same day, when he injured another motorist.
With each day, the news about Andy Reid's sons gets more and more disturbing. We've already learned that Reid's oldest son, Garrett, admitted to using heroin before crashing into a woman's car and seriously injuring her, and that Reid's next-oldest son, Britt, is accused of pointing a gun at another driver in a road rage incident.
Today comes news that these incidents aren't the first time Reid's sons have committed serious traffic offenses. Murray Nathanson, 60, was seriously injured five years ago when Britt Reid totalled Nathanson's car.
In spite of Garrett Reid's confession and the laundry list of weapons, bullets and drug paraphernalia that cops recovered from both of the Reid brothers' cars, neither has been charged with committing a crime.
It turns out Garrett was rather popular in the 'hood and enjoyed that lifestyle.
"I liked being the rich kid in that area and having my own high status life," Reid told a probation officer in a statement read by the judge. "I could go anywhere in the 'hood. They all knew who I was. I enjoyed it. I liked being a drug dealer."
He said in court Thursday that he has stopped selling drugs.
It is possible that Reid will face more charges after the drugs were found in his possession while in jail.
90 pills he put in his rectum. sheesh he must have been hard up
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If this was a player son's involved in this type of reckless behavior I wonder if that player would be linked in some type of way and crucified as a unfit dad and all.
I even wonder if the player would still be on the team.
There is definetely different standards for coaches and players.
[Edited by - playa2 on 02-11-2007 13:42]
JAMES DOLAN on Isiah : He's a good friend of mine and of the organization and I will continue to solicit his views. He will always have strong ties to me and the team.
