Leif Garrett Sent To Jail (Heroine A HELL OF A Drug)

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LOS ANGELES - Leif Garrett has been sent to jail for 45 days after failing several drug tests while staying in a strict drug rehabilitation program, authorities said Thursday.

The 44-year-old former teen idol began the sentence March 30 after a Superior Court commissioner determined he had violated terms of his rehab program, according to Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Garrett agreed to enter the program for violating probation in a cocaine case stemming from a 2004 arrest.

After his last progress hearing March 9, Garrett told reporters he had made improvement in fighting his addiction.

"I'm going down the right path," he said at the time.

Commissioner Melissa Widdifield scheduled his next progress hearing for May 11.

Garrett also faces felony heroin possession charges after officers who stopped him Jan. 14 for allegedly trying to ride a Los Angeles subway train without a ticket said they found suspected narcotics. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.

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