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Obese Houston inmate found with gun after 5 searches
By DALE LEZON Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 6, 2009, 12:41PM
Harris County Sheriff's Department
George Vera, 25, is charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility.
An obese Harris County jail inmate turned over a pistol that had been hidden in the folds of his skin after he went through at least five searches upon his arrest and was booked into two different local lockups, authorities said.
George Vera, 25, is charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility. He also is charged with possessing or selling unlabeled recordings, the original reason for his arrest.
Authorities said he was caught with 439 compact disc recordings which did not have labels noting manufacturers or distributors.
Vera is free on a total of $10,000 bail. The Chronicle was unable to reach him at his home.
The Houston Police Department, which operates the city jail, and the Harris County Sheriff's Office, which operates the county jail, are investigating.
The case comes on the heels of the county jail passing a state inspection last week after the facility corrected problems found during a previous inspection in April.
"It's certainly troubling and that's why we're conducting an investigation to see what happened," said Christina Garza, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.
A spokesman for the Houston Police Department, Kese Smith, said that procedures call for a suspect to be searched upon arrest, twice at the city jail and once more upon his transfer. He said there's no special provision regarding obese people, but officers are trained to thoroughly search suspects.
Vera, who is 5-foot-10 and weighs more 500 pounds, was arrested by Houston police and booked into the city jail Sunday on suspicion of bootlegging compact disc recordings, said Donna Hawkins, spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
By Monday, Vera was transferred to the county jail, where he was searched at least once. While he was in the shower that day, he told a guard that he had weapon on him.
Garza said officers found a 9-millimeter handgun beneath folds of his skin. The gun was not loaded and it was unclear whether bullets were found.
The incident comes after the troubled jail at 1200 Baker passed a surprise inspection last week by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The review found that all deficiencies cited during the April inspection had been corrected.
In April, the lockup failed inspection because of malfunctioning intercoms, broken toilets and crowding in holding cells, where inmates are placed before they are formally booked.
dale.lezon@chron.com
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I dont even want to know where this thing was hidden.
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That thing has begun estrogenization via obesity.
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That thing has begun estrogenization via obesity.
Its a sin what this guy did to himself through eating and slothful behaviors.
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yet another reason to get serious a about obesity..8)
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Its a sin what this guy did to himself through eating and slothful behaviors.
I don't know... I have a feeling that certain levels of obesity have less to do with eating & slothful behaviour than they do with severe imbalances on an endocrinological level. :-\
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I don't know... I have a feeling that certain levels of obesity have less to do with eating & slothful behaviour than they do with severe imbalances on an endocrinological level. :-\
This guy/girl just looks really unhealthy.
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I don't know... I have a feeling that certain levels of obesity have less to do with eating & slothful behaviour than they do with severe imbalances on an endocrinological level. :-\
Too many people blame their obesity on thyroid irregularities and shit like that.
How about just cleaning up the diet and stop feeding your kids with enormous amounts of sugar and fat?
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Too many people blame their obesity on thyroid irregularities and shit like that.
How about just cleaning up the diet and stop feeding your kids with enormous amounts of sugar and fat?
I know what you're saying, ...but I can't believe some forms of obesity are simply due to enormous amounts of sugar and fat. Empty calories are just that, ...and I would think someone would die from malnourishment from useless empty calories before they had the chance to deposit that much fat on a person. I truly think it's got to be endocrinological for the much fat to develop on a person. Some switch got flipped and the metabolic furnaces in the mitochondria stopped firing or something. That's just way too much fat to be attributed to just sugar & lethargy :-\
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I know what you're saying, ...but I can't believe some forms of obesity are simply due to enormous amounts of sugar and fat. Empty calories are just that, ...and I would think someone would die from malnourishment from useless empty calories before they had the chance to deposit that much fat on a person. I truly think it's got to be endocrinological for the much fat to develop on a person. Some switch got flipped and the metabolic furnaces in the mitochondria stopped firing or something. That's just way too much fat to be attributed to just sugar & lethargy :-\
point taken...but consider this...there are hardly any fat people in 3rd world countries....soo why so many countries that have a surplus of food produce more obese people?
there is prolly a middle ground