A prisoner’s commissary account is their lifeline when locked up. The higher amount in their account, the more snacks and products they can purchase.
One inmate at Harris County Jail in Houston was able to accumulate quite the fortune in his commissary. You can probably guess that it wasn’t through honest work and savings.
Apparently, 35-year-old Joshua Sinclair Owens, who is incarcerated for five felony charges including murder, worked with two family members outside of jail on creating an elaborate criminal enterprise where he would sell fellow inmates cannabis-laced papers.
According to ABC 13, officers found papers soaked in synthetic marijuana in Owens’ jail cell earlier this year, and upon listening to his phone calls discovered the enterprise the trio was creating.
Inmates paid Owens through a CashApp account, and he was soon able to grow his commissary account to $30,000 in total!
Harris County District Attorney Kimberly Smith says they have no idea how Owens was able to sneak the drugs into prison, and an investigation is ongoing.
Smith said, “We feel confident this investigation is far from being complete. It is far from being done. We hope to have more charges in the future.”
Owens and his two family members now face up to life in prison for “engaging in organized criminal activity."
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