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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By James O&#8217;Malley</p><p>jomalley@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Meth charges have earned a Plymouth man two years in a state reintegration program.</p><p>Robert Jones, 30, was sentenced Monday by Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough to 24 months in the State Intermediate Punishment (SIP) program, according to court papers.</p><p>He pleaded guilty in November to two counts of manufacturing more than 100 grams of methamphetamine, and must make $2,843 restitution, court documents indicate.</p><p>Jones was one of three arrested in December 2013 in connection with a meth lab operating out of a West Main Street apartment building in Plymouth. He was also charged with running a similar operation out of the Poplar Street residence he was last known to inhabit.</p><p>As part of the SIP program, Jones will spend a minimum of seven months in prison, at least two months in a community-based therapeutic community and at least six months in outpatient treatment.</p><p>The program is designed for defendants whose crimes were motivated by addiction to drugs or alcohol, according to the state Department of Corrections. Both prosecutors and a judge must recommend a defendant for SIP in order to be admitted.</p><p>Treatment plans are tailored to suit the needs of each participant, the DOC says, and an offender who fails the program faces resentencing under traditional sentencing guidelines.</p><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta>Reach James O&#8217;Malley at 570-991-6390 or on Twitter @TL_omalley.</shirttailMeta></div>

Plymouth man sentenced to State Intermediate Punishment program on meth charges