Adam Jasinski Used 'Big Brother' Prize to Buy / Sell Pills

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Oct 20th 2009 01:33PM

Adam Jasinski, the winner of last year's 'Big Brother,' has confessed to authorities of using his $500,000 prize to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and resell them. The Florida native, 31, has been charged with attempting to sell 2,000 pills in Massachusetts to a government witness and faces years of prison time.

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.

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Comments

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Wednesday 21 October

By a1exjet

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1st AOL should do a MUCH BETTER job when it comes to posting comments. I'm sick of reading Ads for face creams or sex tapes and they're always the first comments on the site START POLICING your website AOL and start with your own people because those sex tape ads are always 1st sounds like an inside job to me.
2nd What a surprise another reality contestant who got paid,doesn't want to live in THE REAL world and have a REAL job and who isn't very smart(for what you did, who you sold to and admitting it to the cops) Reality TV = exploited kids and whack jobs.

By Jamey

So the man was making investments come on where is the praise for his money making prowess? So you win half a million dollars and soon after throw your life away what a winner this guy is.

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