Two sons of Andy Reid targets of gun, drug probes

[1niksder]

Two sons of Andy Reid targets of gun, drug probes

PHILADELPHIA -- Two of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons are under investigation -- one for suspicion of pointing a gun at a motorist, the other for a car accident just hours later, after which police said he admitted using heroin.

Britt Reid was questioned by police after a man matching his description in a sport-utility vehicle registered to Andy Reid and his wife brandished a weapon at another driver during an argument Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Authorities served a search warrant later Tuesday at the home the 21-year-old shares with his parents in suburban Philadelphia. Police said they seized a shotgun and a handgun, along with containers of white powder or residue from the vehicle.

No charges have been filed, but police gave the following account of the incident:

A man matching Britt Reid's description got out of a sport-utility vehicle and yelled at another motorist, then returned to his SUV and pulled out a handgun. He then pointed the gun directly at the other driver, smiled and took off, but the other motorist took down his license plate number.

From the vehicle, police recovered a shotgun, ammunition, a container holding eight clear baggies with white residue, a container with white powder, four small white pills, and a pharmacy bottle holding a green leafy substance, according to a list obtained by The Associated Press.

A pistol and ammunition were also seized from the house.

Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, have not commented publicly about their sons' cases. The couple cut short a California vacation and returned home Wednesday. Garrett and Britt Reid are the eldest of the couple's five children.

On the same day as the alleged road-rage incident, Britt Reid's older brother, Garrett, was found with drug paraphernalia after his SUV collided with another vehicle in nearby Plymouth Township, police said.

According to a police affidavit obtained by WPVI-TV, a Plymouth Township police officer observed a triple beam scale and the butt of a handgun in the SUV Garrett Reid had been driving.

Officers detained Garrett Reid and recovered two used hypodermic needles and a knife. One officer said Reid was unable to follow simple directions or understand what was told to him.

In a statement to police, the 23-year-old Garrett Reid said he had used heroin earlier in the day, admitted he was speeding at the time of the accident and said he did not know what color the traffic light was when he went through the intersection, according to the affidavit.

Police requested a search warrant for the SUV, but it was not immediately clear if investigators had executed the warrant.

Police said Thursday that Garrett Reid was taken to a hospital for toxicology tests, but the results were not yet available. The case remains under investigation, and no charges have been filed.

William J. Winning, a lawyer representing Garrett and Britt Reid, released a statement in which he declined to comment on the specifics of the investigations.

"We are fully cooperating with law enforcement officials in that regard and will continue to do so," Winning said. "Until these matters are resolved, however, neither the Reid family or I will have any further comment and we ask that the privacy of the Reid family be respected."

Prosecutors said Thursday they couldn't comment on the investigations.

According to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer, court records show that Garrett Reid has at least four speeding convictions since 2001. He also pleaded guilty in 2004 to shoplifting, the newspaper reported.

Britt Reid has at least one speeding conviction, according to the Inquirer.

[Jake]

Johnson called 911 and said he had been accosted by "a white kid trying to act like a gangster." He gave them the SUV's tag number, which police say was registered to Tammy and Andy Reid.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/16638826.htm



Sounds like a case of Malibu's Most Wanted.

[Fios]

Johnson called 911 and said he had been accosted by "a white kid trying to act like a gangster." He gave them the SUV's tag number, which police say was registered to Tammy and Andy Reid.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/16638826.htm



Sounds like a case of Malibu's Most Wanted.

Priceless

[UK Skins Fan]

Britt? Good name!

[tcwest10]

I wonder if they were influenced in any way by T ...
eh, nevermind. That dog's been beat.

[SkinsFreak]

Now I understand why Andy Reid is so overweight. He likes the Mexican agriculture his son supplies him and always ends up with a severe case of the munchies. Chronic problem for Mr. Reid.

[jeremyroyce]

Man I really feel bad for this family. These guys need to get help for their drug problems.

[hailskins666]

Police: Reid's son tested positive for heroin at time of accident
Feb. 8, 2007
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports




PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. -- The 23-year-old son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid tested positive for heroin after he caused a traffic accident last week that left another motorist injured, police said Thursday.

rest here....
http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9983682

[Fios]

Andy Reid: Father of the Year

[cleg]

Needless to say this is a HUGE story here in Philly. I think it is funny as hell because Reid is supposed to be this moral, character driven Mormon. These kids are in their early 20s, live at home, get an allowance, and drice fancy SUVs without any jobs. I would not be surprised if Reid leaves the team - at least for a while to deal with this.

On another note, just as I predicted, the stupid Eagles fans are clamoring for Jeff Garcia to be brought back as the starter and to trade McNabb.

[PulpExposure]

Needless to say this is a HUGE story here in Philly. I think it is funny as hell because Reid is supposed to be this moral, character driven Mormon. These kids are in their early 20s, live at home, get an allowance, and drice fancy SUVs without any jobs. I would not be surprised if Reid leaves the team - at least for a while to deal with this.

On another note, just as I predicted, the stupid Eagles fans are clamoring for Jeff Garcia to be brought back as the starter and to trade McNabb.

Stupid Eagles fans. They don't realize how good McNabb is. Yeah, the offense functioned smoother under Garcia, but that's because they actually ran the damn ball with him at the helm.

Give McNabb a balanced attack and he'd be nigh unstoppable. But no...let's just let him throw it 85 times a game!

[1niksder]

Reid is reportedly taking a 30day leave of absents to deal with the issuses of his boys.

[1niksder]

Garrett Reid Picked Up For Positive Drug Test

Sources told NBC 10 News that the 24-year-old's urine was tested Friday and was positive for an opiate.

NBC 10 News cameras caught the eldest son of Eagles head coach Andy Reid leaving the family's Villanova home and arriving at the probation office in Bridgeport.

Asked if he had anything to say as he walked into the probation office, Garrett Reid shook his head, put his palms up to either side and walked inside.

Sheriff's deputies were later seen placing him in a police cruiser and driving him off to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville.

Garrett Reid was released from prison Oct. 22, having served several days time for missing a court-ordered drug test. He said it was all a miscommunication.

At the time, the judge told him that if he missed another drug test he would go straight to jail.

Garrett Reid has been under house arrest waiting to be sentenced on a DUI conviction.

[Countertrey]

You can't cure stupidity...

[GSPODS]

You can't cure stupitity...

Sometimes, you can't even spell it.

[Countertrey]

You can't cure stupitity...

Sometimes, you can't even spell it.

I don't know what you are talking about...

[langleyparkjoe]

Like for real, Philly's head coach's kid has problems, who cares?

[1niksder]

Garrett Reid receives jail term of up to 23 months

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- A son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid was sentenced Thursday to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.

Garrett Reid, 24, could leave jail early if he applies for and is accepted into a special drug court program that would require him to hold down a job, report to authorities regularly and undergo rigorous drug testing.

Reid tested positive for heroin and admitted having used it, and authorities found syringes with heroin and testosterone in his SUV. He was taken into custody again Tuesday after failing a drug test, prosecutors said. He had missed a scheduled test last month, prosecutors and his attorney said.

Reid's 22-year-old brother, Britt, also was in court Thursday to be sentenced for pointing a handgun at another driver Jan. 30, the same day as his brother's crash. He pleaded guilty to a string of charges, including carrying a firearm without a license, a felony.

Both sons lived at their parents' home in suburban Villanova at the time of their arrests.

Andy Reid was in court Thursday. He had taken a five-week leave from the team in the offseason to deal with his family's troubles.

[1niksder]

The Judge was kind of hard on Andy ...

Judge Steven O'Neill questioned whether Reid's 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.

He locked the guy up and the clown still didn't get the message....

Garrett Reid was sentenced to two to 23 months, and authorities said that he had smuggled 89 pills into jail by secreting them in his rectum.

O'Neill said the pills, including Valium, were found in the jail this morning. Reid could face additional charges in connection with the pills.

[cleg]

Who gives a poop? Andy Reid is a Mormon fraud. My disdain for organized religion aside, who cares about that fat, arrogant SOBs kids. He's got the money to send them to good rehabs - I care about the kids from working and poor families, forgot about that jerk.

[PulpExposure]

It's worse than that.

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.

Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, were in court but declined to comment. The judge said the parents clearly loved and supported their children and had tried many times over the years to get them help.

"Andy and Tammy are supportive of their son. That has been their position since this all began. He will not comment on it," Garrett Reid's defense attorney, Ross Weiss, said before the judge's comments.

Both Weiss and Britt Reid's attorney, William Winning, declined to comment after the hearing. Andy and Tammy Reid were quickly led through the courthouse basement, escorted by their personal bodyguard and sheriff's deputies.

Both sons lived at their parents' home in the suburb of Villanova at the time of their arrests.

Andy Reid took a five-week leave from the Eagles in the offseason to deal with his family's troubles. He has routinely declined to discuss his sons' legal troubles, but said he would not resign from the team because of them.

Eagles spokesman Derek Boyko said the team had no comment. The NFL also had no comment, according to spokesman Greg Aiello.

Britt said everything he did, he did without his parents' knowledge, but O'Neill questioned that.

Both Reids can apply for a special drug court program that would require them to report to authorities regularly, undergo rigorous drug testing and hold down jobs.

Britt Reid, 22, was sentenced to eight to 23 months in jail plus four years of probation on gun and drug charges. He can apply for the special drug program after five months.

Garrett Reid, 24, was sentenced to two to 23 months in the county prison plus one year of probation. He told O'Neill that he would apply to the drug court program.

"I am more than willing to do drug court ... if that's what it's going to take to get clean and sober,' Reid said. "If you think that's what's best for me, I want to do it."

Garrett Reid, speaking in court and in a statement to a probation officer, said he made a fast descent into hard drugs and enjoyed being the rich kid who dealt drugs in poor, violent Philadelphia neighborhoods and in the tony Main Line suburbs.

"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'd and just faded into oblivion," Reid said in court.

His addiction persists, according to authorities, who found 89 prescription drug pills in Reid's jail cell Thursday morning. They believe he smuggled them in his rectum when he was jailed earlier this week.

"That's consistent with someone as severely drug addicted as he is," said the prosecutor, Senior Deputy Attorney General Marc Costanzo.

Reid's descent in drug use and dealing was steep, according to a probation report read in court. Reid said he didn't use drugs until he graduated from high school, then started with marijuana and alcohol at age 18. That was followed by prescription pain killers Percocet and OxyContin, and then cocaine and heroin.

By 20, he was in drug rehab.

Reid said he sold drugs to his friends and their parents in the suburbs and in a notoriously tough section of Philadelphia.

"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.

"I did get a thrill out of it," he said. "That was also part of the whole new world that opened up to me when I smoked that first joint."

The coach's two sons got into separate legal trouble on Jan. 30.

Garret Reid tested positive for heroin and admitted having used it that day. He ran a red light in Plymouth Township and hit another car. Authorities found syringes with heroin and testosterone in his SUV.

Britt Reid pointed a handgun at another driver following a dispute the same day. He pleaded guilty to a string of charges, including carrying a firearm without a license, a felony.

[langleyparkjoe]

Drugs man.. messing up the world in every aspect

[BeeGee]

His addiction persists, according to authorities, who found 89 prescription drug pills in Reid's jail cell Thursday morning. They believe he smuggled them in his rectum when he was jailed earlier this week.

That is some next-level stuff, man. Seems like they need more than a few months in jail. No matter what your profession, can't lose touch with your kids, man.

[welch]

BG said

That is some next-level stuff, man. Seems like they need more than a few months in jail. No matter what your profession, can't lose touch with your kids, man.

Exactly right. As one parent looking at another, and therefore being reluctant to tell someone else what to do, I'd still tell Andy Reid to resign and look after his kids. Some things are clear, and your kids have to come before your pro football team.

This is a miserable story. Sad, sad.