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| Indictments for Smuggling Cell Phone |
| By kbtx.com |
| Published: 05/03/2009 |
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A grand jury in East Texas has indicted Central Texas death row inmate Richard Lee Tabler, his mother and his sister in an alleged cell phone smuggling case that led to a statewide prison lockdown. The Polk County Grand Jury also indicted Tabler, 30, who was convicted in the murder of a Central Texas nightclub owner and another man, on a felony retaliation charge for threatening to kill state Sen. John Whitmire of Houston. Special Prosecutions Chief Gina DeBottis told the Austin American-Statesman that Tabler was indicted along with his mother, Lorraine Tabler, 60, and sister, Kristina Martinez, 36, of Salado, on charges of possessing contraband in a state prison. Another inmate, Michael Roy Toney, 43, was indicted on similar charges. Toney was on death row but is now awaiting a new trial. The cell phone with which Tabler was caught was used to make, 2,800 calls in 30 days.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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