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'Big Brother 9' winner seeks bail in drug case

WEAR ABC 3 - 20th Nov 2009

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Heroin : BOSTON (AP) -- The winner of the CBS Reality TV show "Big Brother 9" accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller is again asking to be released on bail until his trial. Adam Jasinski , of Delray Beach, Fla., was charged last month with attempting to sell 2,000 Oxycodone pills. They can produce a Heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected. He's been held without bail after a federal agent testified Jasinski told him he had been selling thousands of the...

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