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CYPRESS, TX – APRIL 09: Harris County Sheriff officers seal off the campus after at least 14 people were injured in a stabbing incident at the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star College on April 9, 2013 in Cypress, Texas. The community college located in northwest Houston was on lockdown until police detained a 21-year-old male student believed to be a suspect. (Photo by Scott Halleran\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

77-year-old Texas Attorney caught selling Fentanyl, Marijuana to 154 inmates<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…rakes in $180,000 from proceeds of alleged sale of drugs hidden inside bogus legal papers<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*<\/em><\/strong> \u201cWhen Mr. Lewis visited the jail last Friday, Nov. 17, our team was ready. They arrested Mr. Lewis and found him carrying multiple sheets of paper contaminated with a substance\u201d- Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/<\/strong>AMERICA Senior Investigative Editor<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AN ELDERLY TEXAS DEFENSE ATTORNEY, RONALD HENRY LEWIS, has been handcuffed, being prosecuted for being a \u2018major supplier\u2019 of fentanyl, marijuana to inmates in jail, wrapped in bogus legal papers laced with drugs at Harris County.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 77-year-old man was charged with two felony counts of bringing a prohibited substance into a correctional facility, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez announced during a <\/strong>news conference<\/strong><\/a> Monday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonzalez said the sheriff\u2019s office created the jail Criminal Investigations and Security Division in March to stop the flow of drugs into the jail because its medical clinic \u201cwas seeing more and more people requiring emergency treatment for what seemed like emergency overdoses.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt. Jay Wheeler reportedly said recently following two inmate deaths that may have been overdose-related, a probe was launched into the narcotics trade being smuggled into the jail in the form of paper “that was sprayed or dipped with a chemical compound.”<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One month later, the unit received information that an attorney was taking illegal narcotics to several inmates in the jail. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators determined that an attorney was visiting inmates and giving them sheets of paper, often disguised as legal mail or legal documents, that were laced with narcotics such as ecstasy and synthetic marijuana. In return, inmates would pay $250 to $500 for the papers, Gonzalez and Wheeler said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tips from within the jail led investigators to identify Lewis, and a warrant was issued Nov. 9.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Mr. Lewis visited the jail last Friday, Nov. 17, our team was ready. They arrested Mr. Lewis and found him carrying multiple sheets of paper contaminated with a substance now being tested to confirm whether it\u2019s indeed an illegal narcotic,” Gonzalez said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of his arrest, Lewis was found with 11 sheets of paper suspected of being laced with drugs, Wheeler said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From July to November, Lewis visited a total of 14 inmates, and in total 154 sheets of paper laced with narcotics were confiscated from the jail, Wheeler said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wheeler said investigators are working with the Texas Rangers to see whether any narcotics Lewis introduced to the jail led to the death of an inmate. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials said Monday that it is believed other attorneys are involved in the narcotics surfacing at the jail and that the investigation continues. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the State Bar of Texas, Lewis has been a licensed attorney since 1982. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been released from jail after he posted $15,000 bond.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An attorney for Lewis, Tyrone Moncriffe, said Tuesday that \u201cwe are doing a thorough investigation of the facts in this case\u201d and that any comments on the matter will come when it is complete.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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