JACKSON – A Montana man will serve 26 months in jail after being sentenced in federal court on drug charges as well as state charges for failing to pay child support. Robert Earl Reed, 35, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, in Billings, Montana, for conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. Reed was also sentenced by Judge Marcus Gordon in Leake County Circuit in Mississippi for violating his probation of felony non-support of child.
Reed was sentenced in May 2009 in Mississippi for felony non-support of a child.
Reed will serve his time in the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons, a federal prison, in Florence, Colorado.
Within 90 days of his release from the federal penitentiary, Reed is to begin paying an extra $200 in addition to his regularly scheduled child support payment.
Reed’s arrearage amount of $40,000 is to be totally paid at the end of his probation.
“If this defendant does not pay his child support, I have every confidence that Judge Gordon will send him to [the state pen] after he is released from federal prison,” says Attorney General Jim Hood. “Doesn’t matter who you are or where you are, if you don’t pay your child support obligation in Mississippi, we will make you.”
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