BOSTON (AP) — The winner of reality TV show “Big Brother” has confessed to using his $500,000 prize to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and resell them, authorities said.
Adam Jasinski, 31, of Delray Beach, Fla., has been charged with attempting to sell 2,000 pills in Massachusetts to a government witness.
Federal prosecutors said Jasinski was arrested Saturday after he flew to Boston and showed the witness a sock containing two plastic bags filled with oxycodone, a powerful painkiller that is a popular street drug because of its euphoric effects.
As agents tried to arrest Jasinski at a strip mall in North Reading, he struggled and threw the sock under a car parked nearby, Todd Prough, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, said in an affidavit filed in court.
Jasinski won $500,000 last year on the CBS reality show in which contestants live under constant surveillance and vote once a week to evict each other in hopes of becoming the last houseguest standing and winning the grand prize.
Prough said in the affidavit that Jasinski told him that he has been using his winnings to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and has been reselling them along the East Coast for the past several months.
Jasinski’s lawyer, Valerie Carter, did not immediately return a call Tuesday.
He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine on a charge of possession of oxycodone pills with intent to distribute.
It’s because of IDIOT’S like this guy that makes it harder for a guy with 3 herniated and 2 ruptured discs to get the proper medication without feeling like a criminal. Thanks JACK ASS!! Anthony
Read the Book the Mind Body Prescription , by Dr. John Sarno if you have back pain. It will get you off the meds. it works! Not a gimmic. I have the same thing and do not take pain medication.
Either this guy is just that retarded, or he owes some ’serious’ people a lot of serious cash.
Sad.
this guy was a loser from the beginning…he’s an obnoxious, idiotic, really BAD GUY!! I hope he gets to spend a lot of time in jail where he belongs…but this time not winning ANYTHING when he gets out!!
What an IDIOT!!! He had it made and spends it on drugs to make a profit? What about investing it LEAGALLY? What a thug…serves him right!
kim Murphy
What a dumbass! There are so many constructive things he could have done and apparently he’s lost his mind by choosing the stupid road!
were in a recession he had to make the quickest investment possible. he just got caught. Call your broker and see if he is doing everything legal?
You can’t fix stupid.
Oh boy, i know Adam personally. I cant say im surprised but at the same time he had a few legal business ventures that seemed like they were going well since he won the money, he had bought a few houses at auction and seemed to be working hard to turn his winnings into more. Seems he was working harder then i thought. I feel bad but he had to have known the risk but opiate addiction + money is never a good combo.
Amen Anthony C !
I too suffer from herniated disc’s and the process in getting legitimate pain medication makes you feel like YOU are the criminal.
It is not the Doctor’s fault, they have to answer to the FDA the paper work involved and the scrutiny they are under because of street abuse is just absurd. I hate the B.S. that I have to deal with because of the abuse of this medication.
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