Adam Jasinski, Ninth-Season Winner of Reality TV Show "Big Brother," Confesses to Using $500K Prize to Buy Oxycodone Pills & Resell Them

Another reality show cast member has found himself on the wrong side of the law. Authorities said Adam Jasinski, 31, the ninth-season winner of reality TV show "Big Brother" has confessed to using his $500,000 prize to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and resell them. He has been charged with attempting to sell 2,000 pills in Massachusetts to a government witness. A fool and his money will surely part company quickly, especially if his motives are less than honorable.

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. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Todd Prough said as agents tried to arrest Jasinski at a strip mall in North Reading, he struggled and threw the sock under a car parked nearby.

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 house-guest 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. 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. This incident is proof that old habits die hard. I find it hard to believe that he was not engaged in such criminal activities before he appeared on the reality show. This is another blow for reality television and the nutjobs and criminals they seem to attract.