George Vera, Obese Texas Inmate, Hides Gun In His Flabs Of Fat

HOUSTON — An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.

Twenty-five-year-old George Vera was charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility after he told a guard at the Harris County Jail about the unloaded 9mm pistol. The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs.

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin. Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.

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Information from: Houston Chronicle, http://www.houstonchronicle.com

Comments

[DallasBlue]

probably not the most respectable way to gain your 15 minutes of fame, but impressive just the same.

[wadenelson1]

Let me get this right. YOUR and MY tax dollars are being used to incarcerate this guy for being an entrepreneur and selling bootleg CD's instead of collecting welfare.

Bwaahahahahahahah

[rr00]

Looks like a few of the quality women from Craigslist's w4m section.

[stephanemot]

Initially, Vera was smuggling CDs. He got caught when he started smuggling boomboxes and refrigerators to cool the beer.

[stephanemot]

supersize me : I'll have a Magnum menu with an extra serve of ammos

[Mikeeee]

How come this obese waste of space is not a program to get him healthy?

[Death603k]

Oh I love it! That's great! Hahha!

[lionzion]

Those correction officers did not want to go, where no man had gone before.

[teepeeyoyo]

lol....wonder if he had a concealed permit....ROTF

[WhatDaBleep]

Oh, I also want to know WHY the Texas prison guards did not thoroughly Frisk this individual - after all - that's why their are Rookies on all Guard teams!

[Hollywooddeed]

They didn't know rolls of fat were body cavities.

[Bude]

Please take down that hideous picture.

[MajorKong]

I wouldn't have been surprised by a .22 - but that's some impressive flab to be able to hide a 9mm in there!

[We-Are-The-Ones]

Yep. A shelf and a cover.

[BadgersBite]

Didn't he have to go through a metal dector? Just wondering...

[teepeeyoyo]

Obviously not......Just saying...

[truenortherner]

The story says 9mm pistol. Glock makes a 9mm from polymers. No metal.

[berooobeee]

The Glock slides are metal, the lower part is polymer.

[EmmaJ76]

I read this and did a little throw up in my mouth.

[BBryan]

Okay, a few comments here:

1) Ick
2) I can see how something like that might make it past a "body search". Most people I know wouldn't want to go poking into the nooks & crannies of a 500-lb man.
3) As a Texan, I cringe whenever I hear of something like this. We're really not all like this! I swear! At least not in Austin!!
4) In regards to other posted comments about getting obese in prison, people should realize that prison food is mainly fats & carbohydrates, and there's an incentive placed on staying in your cell.

BBryan

[thepoliticalcat]

Dude, I just want to point out to you that Austin is a REAL outlier in Texas. You could carve Austin right out of Texas and it would make a whole buncha Texans very happy, if they even noticed. Most Texans (outside Austin) are a lot more like Mr. Vera than like you.

[jbs902]

Austin might as well be in another state. It is nothing like the rest of that lunatic state.