14 DAY TRIAL // A cast member that is featured in the "Amish Mafia" show on Discovery has been sentenced for injuring a state trooper during a police chase.
Alan Beiler is massively featured during the first season of the show and dubs himself as connected to both the Amish community and the life outside of it.
He was pulled over for an expired registration last year on July 7, five months before the show was on the air.
Since he had marijuana in his 2004 Jeep Liberty he refused to stop and changed lanes, swerving into incoming traffic.
Police inspecting the vehicle also recovered muscle relaxer Carisoprodol, oxycodone, and anti-anxiety drug Alprazolam inside.
The chase begun at roughly 9 a.m. on the corner of routes 11/15 and 22/322 in Reed Township, Dauphin County.
He started traveling eastbound on Route 22/322 until he reached Duncannon. At that point, he changed to Route 11/15, where he was going south in the northbound lanes.
His vehicle nearly missed five more cars before causing the state police squad car to crash. An officer was injured as police chased after Beiler.
Beiler was charged with drug possession and leading police on a high-speed chase, the Harrisburg Patriot-News informed.
He has been sentenced to 3 to 23 months in Perry County Prison and the judge told him that the situation could have been worse.
"You're lucky no one was killed," Perry County Judge Kevin A. Mummah notes.
"There was definitely an angel sitting in my passenger seat," Beiler described after the incident. The officer that was wounded only incurred a minor concussion.
He told the judge that he stopped using drugs in July of 2013 and that he has become a "better person and a new man."
Daily Mail documents that Beiler was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was adopted by an Amish family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.