Attorney says he was tricked into giving drug-laced paper to inmate

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association is warning its members after another lawyer was tricked into smuggling drug-laced paper into the Harris County Jail.

“This is becoming a prevalent thing,” Brent Mayr, president of the association, said.

According to a newly released search warrant, undercover deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office were watching Nov. 19 when Edward Brown walked into a courtroom and handed the so-called K2 paper to attorney Tucker Graves.

The deputies say they then saw Graves hand the paper to his client, Byron Moses, who he was representing on drugs and weapons charges.

Graves told Eyewitness News that Brown was claiming to be the owner of a gun that had been in his client’s possession and had asked him to hand his client a piece of paper with some phone numbers on it.

He said he had no idea the paper tested positive for a synthetic cannabinoid, as investigators claim.

“Individuals are taking advantage of lawyers that are trying to build trust with their clients. They’re taking advantage of that trust,” said Mayr.

In this latest case, Graves was not charged, but investigators did build a case against six other people, including Moses and Harris County detention officer Asean Dickerson.

Investigators say Moses’ girlfriend, Meagan Henderson, who advertises her tax preparation services on Instagram, was making the drug-laced paper.

In a since-deleted video, they say she can be seen cutting strips of the treated paper, smoking the material to test potency and even traveling to a nearby corner store where she offers a sample to someone.

They say Henderson asks her sampler if the paper was “good enough for the jails,” to which they reply that “it’s good enough for the free world.”

Out of an abundance of caution, Mayr is urging attorneys not to hand any original documents to inmates.

“Photocopy whatever that document is that was given to you. Photocopy it, give the inmate the photocopy and don’t give them the original document. Throw that away,” he said.

Henderson remains at large as of Tuesday evening. Jail records show she’s also wanted in Comal County on drug charges.

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