Mother of Richard Tabler TX DR Charged w/Paying Cell Phone Mins on Illegal Cell

[Heidi Salazar]

"Under the new proposal, intensive high-tech screening equipment — much like the machines used at airports"

Someone please slap me in the face and call me naive...I thought that type of security was implemented in our prison systems long before 09/11

[63Wildcat]

*SLAP*  Nope...

[Michael]

if I would have some cruel ideas about the world I would say that the machine producers smuggled the phones into the prison to generate some new markets after all the airtports bought their machines. 

I think we had to deal with technical innovations from time by time and we had to spend the money to improve airports, buildiungs AND prisons.

Michael

[Lloyd]

Livingston said that included the purchase of six dogs trained to sniff out cell phones and an upcoming test of cell-phone jamming equipment on Dec. 18 at an Austin prison.

Seeing as how we know where they are hiding these cell phones, I feel sorry for these poor dogs.

[Michael]

Yes. somebody had to inform PETA about this circumstance. 

Michael

[Granny B]

Livingston said that included the purchase of six dogs trained to sniff out cell phones and an upcoming test of cell-phone jamming equipment on Dec. 18 at an Austin prison.

Seeing as how we know where they are hiding these cell phones, I feel sorry for these poor dogs.

  sniffers?   

[Jeff1857]

AUSTIN — A Texas death row inmate and two relatives have been indicted and accused of smuggling cell phones into a prison, leading to a statewide lockdown.

Special Prosecutions Chief Gina DeBottis told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that Richard Lee Tabler, 30; his mother, Lorraine Tabler, and his sister Kristina Martinez, 36, were indicted Friday on charges of possessing contraband in a state prison. The third-degree felony carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

Authorities accuse Lorraine Tabler and Martinez of paying for minutes on a cell phone that had been smuggled to their condemned relative. The minutes are a “component” of a cell phone that is illegal in a prison, prosecutors said.

Martinez didn’t return a phone call seeking comment. Information on attorneys for Tabler and his mother wasn’t immediately available.

A second inmate, Michael Roy Toney, 43, was indicted on similar charges.

Toney was on death row at the time of the investigation but has since been granted a new trial.

Toney was convicted in a Thanksgiving Day 1985 bombing in Fort Worth that killed three people.

A former guard and two Polunsky Unit inmates were also indicted for bribery amid allegations they paid the guard more than $1,100 over a few months to smuggle tobacco into the facility.

A Polk County grand jury also indicted Richard Tabler on a felony retaliation charge. He's accused of threatening to kill state Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston. Officials said Tabler sent a letter to Whitmire.

Tabler’s alleged use of a cell phone from death row sparked the statewide prison sweep, which led to the confiscation of hundreds of banned items, including cell phones and weapons.

The probe was tied to reports accusing Tabler of calling Whitmire and saying he knew the lawmaker’s daughter’s name. Whitmire is chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, which oversees prison operations. He reported the calls to authorities.

Tabler was convicted of shooting a strip club manager and another man in Killeen in 2004. His execution date has not been set.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6404012.html

[Moh]

In Italian, they have the following saying: "La madre dei cretini è sempre incinta." It means that the mother of cretins is always pregnant.

[JT]

I'm sure that a death-row inmate is just petrified of being sentenced to 10 years in prison...

In Italian, they have the following saying: "La madre dei cretini è sempre incinta." It means that the mother of cretins is always pregnant.

And it's one good argument for legalised abortion.