{"id":447022,"date":"2026-09-25T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447022\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:46:08","slug":"attorney-accused-of-smuggling-drugs-into-jail-cuts-deal-to-avoid-jail-time-himself-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447022\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney accused of smuggling drugs into jail cuts deal to avoid jail time himself, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A local attorney accused of bringing his client drugs inside the Harris County Jail cut a deal to stay out of jail himself, court documents reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hunter Simmons was charged in 2024 and was one of three attorneys accused of similar crimes in separate cases that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">PREVIOUS REPORT: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/houston-defense-attorney-2-others-charged-alleged-operation-smuggle-drug-laced-papers-harris-county-jail\/15544270\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston defense attorney and 2 others charged in jail drug smuggling operation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court documents show that to avoid jail time, Simmons entered a no-contest plea and was sentenced to three years of deferred adjudication-a type of probation where he has to stay out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His accomplice, Tanisha Butler, was charged alongside Simmons and was given a similar deal and deferred adjudication last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Simmons was accused of passing paper laced with synthetic marijuana to a client who was charged with murder back in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Because Simmons is a licensed attorney, he must report the no-contest plea to the State Bar. It is unclear how that would affect his license.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A local attorney accused of bringing his client drugs inside the Harris County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[154110,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-447022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-154110","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}