REAGAN'S GRANDSON SENTENCED TO DRUG REHAB

Cameron Michael Reagan, the troubled grandson of the former U.S. president
and son of talk radio personality Michael Reagan, was sentenced Monday to
90 days in a drug rehabilitation program after he was found with a small
amount of marijuana.

The 22-year-old Van Nuys man was also ordered by Los Angeles County
Superior Court Judge Michelle Rosenblatt to attend anger management
counseling at Calvary Ranch, a Christian residential drug and alcohol
treatment center near San Diego, and not associate with drug users or
sellers. "Mr. Reagan, I hope you will take this seriously," Rosenblatt said.

Reagan, who had violated probation after his 1999 conviction for receiving
stolen property, could have received up to three years in state prison. But
Deputy Dist. Atty. Lea Purwin D'Agostino said she believed the penalty was
fair.

"I didn't want him treated differently from anybody else just because he
comes from a famous family," D'Agostino said. "Our major concern is that
Mr. Reagan is never with us in court again."

Reagan's parents, Michael and Colleen Reagan, sat in the courtroom and
declined comment. Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and his first
wife, Jane Wyman, is a syndicated talk radio show host.

"The family is grateful for how things turned out," said Cameron Reagan's
lawyer, Ronald Lewis.

According to court documents, Reagan was convicted in 1999 after a November
1998 incident that involved burglarizing cars. At the time of his arrest,
he was on probation for vandalism for allegedly trying to scratch his name
into a store window.

Pleading for mercy, Reagan's lawyer at the time told the judge the young
man had suffered from attention deficit disorder since childhood, which led
him to fail at college and made him unable to hold down a job. At one
point, Reagan was penniless and living in the streets, according to court
documents.

"He is just a boy who has a lifelong emotional problem that needs
treatment," said attorney Donald Wager during the 1999 hearing.

On Monday, Lewis said Reagan "has been working at an undisclosed location"
and added that the young man, who was found with less than 1 ounce of
marijuana, may also go back to college after he completes his rehab
program, which he would begin immediately.