Barenaked Ladies Man Agrees to Rehab, Avoids Jail

Drug possession case against Steven Page will be dropped if he stays clean for six months and gets treatment

Steven Page has been presented with a get-out-of-jail treatment card.

The Barenaked Ladies frontman cut a deal in an upstate New York courtroom Tuesday that will allow him to avoid jail time for drug possession if he seeks treatment and manages to stay clean for six months.

If those conditions are met, all charges will be dropped, said Judge Thomas Morgan.

"Based on each defendant's exemplary behavior and positive attitude from the beginning, I fully expect in six months time this will be over, with each of the defendants ultimately benefitting from this painful experience," Page's attorney, Mark Mahoney, said in a statement.

"Once the charges are finally dismissed, there will be no legal obstacle to Mr. Page entering the United States like any other Canadian citizen."

The same goes for two other defendants in the case, Page's girlfriend, Christine Benedicto, 27, and her roommate, Stephanie Ford, 25,as well.

Page, 38, and Ford were charged in July with felony criminal possession of a controlled substance after police, while checking out a parked car with an open driver's side door, spotted the two sitting in Ford's apartment with a suspicious-looking white capsule in front of them.

Upon further inspection, officers determined the substance to be cocaine and took the pair into custoyd. Benedicto, who was not present at the time of their arrest, was later charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession.

Ford later admitted to police that she had snorted what she presumed to be cocaine, according to court documents, which also state that Page told them, "Yeah, it's cocaine."