Garrett and Britt Reid were sentenced to jail today on charges stemming from January traffic incidents, and in a dramatic moment, the judge likened their home environment to a "drug emporium."
Their father is Eagles coach Andy Reid.
Judge Steven O'Neill questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.
"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon. . . . This is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.
Garrett Reid was sentenced to two to 23 months, and it was disclosed in court that he had smuggled 89 pills into jail by secreting them in his rectum.
Britt Reid was sentenced to eight to 23 months, and four years stemming from a road-rage incident during which he flashed a gun.
Andy Reid did not comment after he left the courtroom.
Earlier in the day, Garrett Reid told court officials he had sold cocaine in the past, and had started abusing drugs when he was 18.
O'Neill said the pills, including Valium, were found in the jail this morning. Reid could face additional charges in connection with the pills.
After sentencing, Garrett Reid, 24, was returned to jail. His father and his mother, Tammy, were in the courtroom. Neither spoke.
At the sentencing hearing, Reid said he had struggled with drugs since high school. He also voiced despair.
"I'm at the point in my life where I have already made the decision that I don't want to die doing drugs."
"I don't want to be that kid who was the son of the head coach of the Eagles who was spoiled and on drugs and OD'ed and just faded into oblivion," he said in court.
Reid ran a red light on Jan. 30 in Plymouth Township and his vehicle plowed into a car, seriously injuring Louise Hartmann, 55, of Mount Carmel, Pa. He told police he had used heroin earlier in the day.
Reid pleaded guilty in July to drug and traffic charges from the accident and was initially released on bail pending sentencing.
O'Neill read in court a report that said Reid started using drugs and alcohol when he was 18, and started selling cocaine in 2000.
"I liked being the rich kid in that area," the report quoted Reid as saying, apparently in reference to North Philadelphia. "I could go anyplace in the 'hood. They all knew who I was. I liked being a drug dealer. . . . These kids were scared of me, I was even selling to their parents."
He later started selling OxyContin and "began using."
O'Neill had first revoked Garrett Reid's bail on Oct. 16, sending him to Montgomery County jail for seven days after he failed to appear for a court-ordered drug test.
Reid gave multiple reasons for missing the test, saying there was a "miscommunication." He said he couldn't get a ride, didn't feel the urge to urinate, and could not get a taxi in time. Reid did not fail the test given after he was sent to jail, and was then released.
Then, on Tuesday, O'Neill sent Reid back to Montgomery County jail for the second time when he failed a court-ordered urine test.
On the same day in January that Garrett Reid was involved in the accident, his brother Britt, 22, waived a hand-gun at another motorist in an apparent road-rage incident. A search warrant uncovered drugs and drug paraphernalia in his truck.
Britt Reid pleaded guilty and was free on bail when he violated conditions of his release and went to a Plymouth Township sporting goods store. In the store's parking lot, Britt Reid's truck was seen weaving before it struck a shopping cart. He failed a police sobriety test.
On Aug. 24, O'Neill revoked Britt Reid's bail and sent him to the Montgomery County jail.
Judge Calls Andy Reids House A "drug emporium"
Judge Calls Andy Reids House A "drug emporium"
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