Money laundering scheme uncovered in Harris Co. Jail

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says her office seized an inmate's commissary account that had more than thirty thousand dollars, which has never happened in the history of the D.A.'s office. She says evidence showed 35-year-old inmate "Joshua Owens" received the funds through drug smuggling. She stopped by Fox 26 today to tell us about the ongoing investigation and link to numerous fentanyl deaths in Harris County jail.
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[@sincerely9187]

The inmates aren't the ones smuggling it in. As usual, there doesn't seem to be much focus on who is bringing it to the jail. Isiah, you missed a great opportunity here to put the focus where it needs to be.

[@Alyssa-ct2of]

Stop leaving out your officers !! A lot of them responsible duh

[@bigrabyt]

Wat you said 😂

[@landyboatwrighr1963]

She did mention this concerning the officers in the beginning of the conversation.

[@Osay1216]

Their a part but not all of them

[@reggiechapman7275]

Let's use some common sense No contraband can make it behind those walls without the help of Officers.

[@dashawnpotts5497]

Putting all the money on your books crazy

[@AC-eo8kv]

🎯

[@Imrichpoor]

🐷

[@Meohmy724]

That was so dumb 🤣😂🤣

[@priestbrooklyn1094]

Ninja tried to flip it to $80k by flipping Honey Buns

[@worldbfree4u]

Criminals are not the 'sharpest knives in the kitchen'. Anybody that would leave $30k in a commissary account is plain stupid and asking to be investigated.

[@Calvin23]

They need to mind their own business because the prison industry is one of the biggest criminal enterprises in America.

[@UpTownSmoke]

The jail makes money off of the money in the accounts. It’s basically like a savings account that yields 5%. The 5% goes to the jail, not the inmate. So it’s in the jail’s best interest to let those accounts run up.

[@FoundaPeanut]

My guess is, he missed a payment to the warden, and the warden was like “oh yeah”…

[@FoundaPeanut]

Oh, my bad it’s county jail not prison, so he must’ve missed a payment to the sheriff and his deputies… and then they were like “o yeah?”

[@moth450]

Any other high dollar commissary accounts?

[@GhostRider-dp2tc]

I heard hommie was getting his poor lil hole turnt into a rose and squeked to save the prolapse

[@adamchristman7367]

So harris county pissed not getting their cut?

[@neildriver9475]

"Kush can make people act all types of crazy ways" 😂😂😂😂😂 bro she needs to retire 2 decades ago smh

[@TinaSnow1]

😂😂😂

[@TriggaTrey361]

She's talking about k2 not weed

[@CharlesBrewer-k8u]

The “kush” she’s talking about is not the same Kush you’re talking about.

[@cash_junkie214]

I ain't Neva heard of no kush assault

[@marymotherofgod4861]

This rabbit hole is deeper than u THINK!!!

[@antwanwilson7228]

Wow

[@budbrudis5213]

Just an example of how piss poor the jails and prison system are being ran today.

[@toobossedup]

Great job now let’s get a nationwide search because it’s going on all over the country 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@bigrabyt]

Wat you said 😂

[@DarnellHorton-ze7yh]

His Commisary should have never reached this amount. Some of the guards were involved with this scheme

[@soundsofsleep993]

Why does this look like the 80s

[@prettyhandsomegang5227]

😂😂frfrits the close up and the lady

[@CertifiedCarter]

SO SHE TELLING PEOPLE THE LOOP HOLE....SMH

[@latyshal.2286]

Trust and believe, they are going to close that loop hole.

[@720_mitch]

Not new at all

[@reggiep8821]

Somebody snitched.

[@bigrabyt]

Wat you said 😂

[@erycalexander7315]

Don’t call whatever they making in jail Kush😅that’s Dush 🤣

[@Desertfox14]

Toilet wine too 😂😂

[@jdotluke]

Lol 😅​@@Desertfox14

[@GPWGP]

So who keeps the drug money? Im sure Harris County wouldn't spend deug moneyyy

[@bigrabyt]

Wat you said 😂

[@CrashOutK6]

Come to Dallas it normal

[@bigrabyt]

Wat you said 😂

[@kenderay99w.60]

Sitting in the Harris county jail spending all my little time. 😂😂😂😂

[@KevinDekoon]

Rip og style

[@atlsupremeg7462]

What song is that

[@atlsupremeg7462]

I look up And take a shower, funky toes are everywhere

[@sabrinaoliver7727]

Not a damn thing funny about this at all

[@sabrinaoliver7727]

He gonna be spending time now for sure

[@jlynnburton9718]

why doesn't jails have a computer program set to where anytime The inmates balance goes above say $1,000 or $5,000 it sends an alert for investigation ??

[@thecramptons]

Exactly

[@jlynnburton9718]

@@thecramptons They should be proactive not reactive in matters like this

[@h.phillip5245]

That's a whole lot of Ramen.

[@IamThe1NotThe2]

Yeah, I didn’t open up investigation this fast about people dying in jail but when it’s about the money🤔

[@SwitchinLanez720]

Whatever give that mane his money back 🤬

[@RichardBrown-bn4mg]

Should of made out a money remit form and send that money out to someone he can trust

[@gdiup9241]

Seems like jail is not punishing the jailed. Spraying paper. Hope all involved are 'jailed'

[@gdiup9241]

Ogg looks like she is working on whacking all the moles.

[@damonshlds]

Slow group of people

[@2eightfoe]

Why would he put 30k n commissary what a goofy

[@c-mobucks4930]

He shouldn't have kept the money on his commissary, you gotta hold it on a sports betting app like fan duel or draft kings.

[@2eightfoe]

Bingo

[@siliconvalley9347]

How would I do that ?

If you got money you can get amything you want in jail 🙄

[@tonioyendis4464]

I'm sure folks like; Martha Stewart & Bill Cosby had more than $30k in their commissary...

[@hcuhoustonchristiansunited3877]

Why would they? They got banks

[@lilcourtny08]

They had legal money smart guy

[@Firstpickofthedraft]

You could have just deposited $500 and have the rest of the money in another account in a bank account 🤦‍♂️ guess he didn’t trust his family members. NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES 😂😂😂

[@Swoop-TV_]

That’s crazy out one soup cost $.79 cost $.10 on the street. It looks like the jail may be forcing people to survive

[@benderbendingrodriguez6697]

Soups have gone up in price. Basic ramen packets haven't even been 10 cents since the early 2000s.

[@veracitymedcareers9362]

According to you guys....lol great journalism!

[@samantha198607]

😂let tha black man make his money daangg

[@2eightfoe]

He was until they start oding he was up 30 k😂

[@landyboatwrighr1963]

She did mention this concerning the officers in the beginning of the conversation.

[@feleciaclemons5074]

This can only work if the jail is in on it somehow!!!!! TF????

[@toddguillory692]

In other words, the county is failing.

[@sabrinaoliver7727]

Mind blowing...how did it get that far

[@sabrinaoliver7727]

Where is the other arrest...who helped get the drugs in there?

[@Osay1216]

That’s been going on they should have capped all financial accounts

[@EugeneMcCoy-vr8xu]

Put him in prison

[@dionroberson6772]

Trickle down theory

[@cash_junkie214]

Yoo is that the wtf is that reporter😂😂😂 yooo og i thought u quit

[@tyeshaspann8819]

Same thing going on in Augusta

[@johnhinton1357]

Factor do one on the family courts bias towards good Dad's and bad lawyers taking client money without rendering service

[@t-bonena3609]

When it comes to money, the authorities are always concerned. They don't care about the prisoners or they would treat them better, have better rehabilitation programs, better food, a system to rehabilitate those who can change. Oh no, it is about money.

[@TheGOATTee17]

Dudes go to jail and find new ways to do the same type of crimes. Jail definitely isn’t rehabbing these people, just keeping them in the cycle

[@dionroberson6772]

Wow

[@Brandon-bb4mv]

damn right I seen it myself

[@armandocastillo5364]

Some people you just cant help cuz they stupid and dont listin

[@MeMe-ku6gz]

And you don't know how to spell 😅

[@masterzoovie7442]

​@@MeMe-ku6gz😂

[@rrosen7370]

Where’s the governor??

[@Scxoop123]

Its some dudes in prison with hundreds of thousands of different

[@shootingstar9243]

Aw shat! Joshua better come up with that money. 😂

[@2eightfoe]

Or that’s his ssa😂

[@nelsum-solosipp7095]

He was my celly & its a lie... He was only selling commissary double or triple & he been n jail 2 half yrs... They jus wanna seize his money... I jus got out 3weeks ago

[@Savagee5044]

So what they go do with the money ?

[@TheIgnorantGenius]

​@@Savagee5044 he takes cashapp payments for commissary when people run out during the week, more than likely

[@nelsum-solosipp7095]

​@@Savagee5044Harris county want all of it... They lock a couple of his ppl up also dat Waz helping him on the outside bc dat was his support system... So it makes it harder 4 him 2 have a team on da outside fighting 4 him now... Bro really innocent frfr he was only flipping commissary 🚫🧢...

[@nelsum-solosipp7095]

​@@Savagee5044the way they say he made the 💰 is a whole lie bc n Harris county U don't even get yo original mail 4rm da outside they copy it 2 prevent da exact way they claim he made da 💰 off drugs, so it's BS 🐂 💩

[@DeathTrapProductions]

Nothing new and won't ever go away unfortunately. I hear some street dealers make more money in the box and come out rich. Money making schemes continue.

[@MrRalphJack]

Man my boy Chevy had the 2 for 1’s on lock

[@StaySafeENT]

You know this is BS

[@a_soldierz_genetics]

That’s nothing, I l was at a female maximum security unit in Texas. Multiple inmates had $50k+ and same at the male unit I’m at

[@terrellwilliams4207]

20%who gets that just to put money into commissary

[@josephware5663]

30 ladies paying chris brown 1000...why this guy or anyone collecting that kind of money it's drugs

[@atlsupremeg7462]

We send it home on greendot and cash app not commissary account

[@876Valley]

Smh

[@JamesMcBride-w7j]

I'm sure that was hell those guys were sick outrageously sick from fentanyl and imagine being sick like that and some one had what you need but you don't have money or someone else right next to you is feeling fine and you are super sick it's hell on earth

[@kushman425]

That's a red Flagg all day $30,000

[@deneilwilliams4380]

Smart and dumb all at the same time SMH

[@burntbologna]

Is it a different kind of kush other than weed?

[@michaelfowler5760]

I've seen sone pretty large commissary accounts. In upwards if $10,000. Tge fentanyl deaths was the big tip off.

[@user-ph6qv4fd5v]

When they have mail come in scan they letters and pics they have mailed in and give they the copy that will cut down on k2

[@DayuMMTV]

The.officers bring it in

[@MarrsGottiKC816]

Cash app ? Dumb dumb !

[@Kelvin-p8n]

Bout time

[@retired-m9u]

30 grand in jail 2500 in bank go over loose ssi

[@LovenotHate130]

He dum just put all that cash in his Jailers hands lol

[@Linn-vm3xb]

This is sad and a set up. Yall know its a inside job. What r yall getting paid for?

[@KsDontMiss21]

This is nothing they have people taking care of home from inside the walls. They playing games getting on here talking about 30k

[@benderbendingrodriguez6697]

How obvious can you be lmao

[@nj8778]

i don't fw Kim Ogg at all.

[@redjoyce82]

all the time by the detention officer

[@anthonyvargas8704]

Leave him alone you all are not going to do anything He did do😊 nuttin

[@jakaramoore523]

Give that man his money back

[@markfcoble]

Usual suspects.

[@fed1013]

We got more coming Tsf we see yall Fedout..

[@riorio-rt1oq]

Girl y’all been doing this for years nothing new

[@junglekutz5625]

👀

[@josephware5663]

They act like doctors don't do crime 😒 or like Donald Trump if rich people go to jail 🙄 wow 👏 👌 but ok

[@action8859]

lol 😂

[@deelewis8061]

1 soup is $2 lying bishhh

[@Xavier-be2mi]

Cori… get your cousins

[@uncletom4871]

They are either smart and not hard or hard and isnt smart but the two rarely mix these days

[@ryanbrown6172]

This ain't nothing new lol

[@d-taylorpocketbullies2949]

Kush ain’t never had a mf acting crazy😂

[@curtislitten5388]

cops are crooked why not the jail

[@jctravelpartners2890]

Lol ish is crazy

[@esils]

So basically only addicted drug users are being affected by this crime.🤷🏾‍♂️ life in prison is too steep of a punishment imo

[@nicolewhite7919]

I doubt Kim Ogg has actually viewed the latest price list of Commissary....Big mistake the least expensive item cost more than a dollar ....Harris County has most expensive commissary and you ain't nobody without funds the more money the greater the respect

[@21gramz]

J prince jr told on him

[@larryballout4702]

Well she's late so now she's tryna tell somebody how much money u can have in jail.

[@cward2900]

Please go educate yourself on real kush ma’am lol

[@robertthompson4224]

These 🤡’s ALWAYS smart enough to find a loophole in the system. I work with juveniles, in a detention facility. And they are the SAME way. Getting around on the computer @ school, getting pass the fire wall. To log onto IG. Just to say free me. And keep up with what’s going on outside. I tell them, you were JUST outside. Clearly you don’t like it out there, because you KEEP coming back. They need to use the smarts they have to get jobs. Get a trade, etc etc. No, gotta get the fast money. 🤡’s

[@curtisswilliams1228]

Facts

[@jennifermyers66]

😂

[@wishyouknew487]

😂😂😂😂

[@stevenwilliams9006]

You youngins in jail, without bail, but u wanna still use drugs and go ti hail!!!!