Adam Jasinski, 'Big Brother' Winner, In Massive Oxycodone Bust

BOSTON — The ninth-season winner of the reality TV show "Big Brother" told a federal agent that he used 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 on "Big Brother 9" in April 2008. The CBS reality show features contestants who 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.

Comments

[forestyan]

11:14 PM on 10/20/2009

He got caught by a "governmen­t witness" following a show called "Big Brother"..­. couldn't get more ironic.

[JJinWI]

11:22 PM on 10/20/2009

LOL, and now his agent has him booked on "The Biggest Loser".

FAIL

[the964kid]

11:07 PM on 10/20/2009

They should keep looking for evidence, because, judging by that picture, that guy looks like he's on a lot of other drugs too.

[stringer]

11:00 PM on 10/20/2009

The sad part was he looked EXACTLY like that on the show. As a matter of fact that was one of the more normal stills of him at the time. And his behavior was even weirder than the way he looked.

This is one of those pretty much everyone could sort of see coming.

[wadenelson1]

10:57 PM on 10/20/2009

First he makes fun of autistic kids, calling them "ret.ards" on national TV, and now he gets to go to jail.

Who sez there's no God?

[Gin1234]

10:51 PM on 10/20/2009

Take a look at this guys picture and ask yourself if you would rather have him selling your kids drugs, or if you would rather have him in jail. It's a no brainer.

[jsociety]

10:04 PM on 10/20/2009

Here's the math on how much Big Brother's pills stood to earn him:

http://blo­gs.current­.com/vangu­ard/2009/1­0/21/big-b­rother-win­ner-stood-­to-profit-­handsomely­/

[Hamatreya]

11:57 PM on 10/20/2009

Excellent link. Unfortunat­ely there's no mention of the prison industrial complex that is also profiting from this disaster.

[rbryanh]

09:57 PM on 10/20/2009

Big Pharma is not amused when the little guy moves in on their market. It's hardly surprising they sent in their enforcers.

[Dannydel]

09:40 PM on 10/20/2009

Lighten up you judgementa­l twit.

[ChiGuy]

09:37 PM on 10/20/2009

Looks like Ru sh has to scramble to find a new dealer.

[cirrus9]

09:41 PM on 10/20/2009

chuckle.

[in4success]

09:11 PM on 10/20/2009

never seen the show . . . but this guy looks like a winner.

[jsociety]

09:06 PM on 10/20/2009

Florida is the "Colombia of prescripti­on drugs".
http://ow.­ly/vxVW

[BeefSupreme]

09:05 PM on 10/20/2009

Are Americans finally beginning to realize that the kind of people who enjoy being on reality shows tend to be sociopaths­?

[cirrus9]

09:44 PM on 10/20/2009

No, but America IS finally beginning to realize the kind of people who enjoy making baseless blanket generaliza­tions in blog strings tend to be mocked.

[liberalsrheros]

09:51 PM on 10/20/2009

;)

[hardlyhikin]

08:57 PM on 10/20/2009

Couldn'ta happened to a nicer guy. Have a great time with the "real" Big Brutha.

[butterflywings]

08:36 PM on 10/20/2009

When he was on Big Brother he shad a job working for the Autism foundation and working with kids on the autism spectrum. Yet when he was on the show he repeatedly made fun of the kids he worked with, calling them retards etc. The foundation fired him soon after.

My 10 year old son has autism. I can remember at the time, after hearing how Adam made fun of autistic kids and adults, wondering what kind of parents raised him to have such a lack of compassion and decency. He may find my son worthless, but I beg to differ and I have never applied for any disability benefits for my son and never will because I do not want him labeled disabled and I don't want him thinking he is. Once a person is labeled disabled they identify with that label.

I hate to think my son has to deal with a holes like Adam who think nothing of denigratin­g those with neurologic­al conditions that they were innocently born with.

God riddance, Adam.

[butterflywings]

08:49 PM on 10/20/2009

I apologize for the typo in my first sentence. Obviously I meant he "had" a job. I wish HP had an edit button. lol

[Texocrat24]

08:52 PM on 10/20/2009

They do. It's called a backspace key. Use it sometime!

[theblakelvis]

08:28 PM on 10/20/2009

its nice to see a white guy makin moves