Jailed Montgomery awaits hearings on heroin charges

Tim Montgomery, once hailed as the world's fastest man, can only sit in jail and wait until next week for a hearing after being indicted on heroin distribution charges.

Authorities said Friday that the 33-year-old former Olympic champion now disgraced as a dope cheat faces a Monday afternoon detention hearing before Judge F. Bradford Stillman who will decide whether to release him on bond.

Stillman can keep Montgomery in custody until his trial date, which is likely to be set in an arraignment that probably will be held Wednesday.

Montgomery, being kept in nearby Portsmouth city jail, faces charges from the US Attorney's Office of conspiracy to possess heroin with intent to distribute.

He is set to be sentenced next month in connection with a check-fraud case.

Montgomery received a career-ending two-year doping ban in 2005 that wiped out his world-record 100-meters time of 9.78 seconds from September of 2002.

Neither he nor Marion Jones, the mother of his son Tim Jnr, ever tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. But Montgomery was banned based upon evidence linking him to the BALCO scandal and THG, a once-undetectable steroid.

Montgomery won 2000 Sydney Olympic gold in the 4x400 relay and a silver medal in the same event four years earlier in Atlanta.

Jones admitted to doping and was sentenced to six months in prison earlier this year for lying to federal investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs.

She has been stripped of the medals she won at the 2000 Olympics, including gold in the 100 and 200 and 4x400 relay and bronze in the long jump and 4x100 relay.

Teammates from both Jones' medal-winning performances have appealed to the International Olympic Committee to have their medals returned by the Court for Arbitration of Sport.