Three felony charges against Jason Terrell Johnson were dismissed, according to court records.
HOUSTON — Three felony charges that have been looming over a Houston defense attorney for about a year have been dismissed, according to court records.
Jason Terrell Johnson was arrested last year after he was accused of smuggling drug-laced papers to a client in the Harris County Jail.
Authorities said he smuggled synthetic marijuana to a client during a court hearing with the help of the client’s fiancé. Prosecutors said Johnson got paid an extra $2,000 to deliver the drugs.
Johnson was charged with organized crime, providing a prohibited substance in a corrections facility and witness tampering.
As of Tuesday, those charges were dismissed, according to online court records. The client and his fiancée weren’t charged in the case because they cooperated with the investigation, officials said.
On Tuesday, Johnson and his attorney spoke to the media. He said the client and his fiancée set him up and the district attorney’s office and sheriff’s office were complicit.
“They dismiss charges clandestinely at 3 p.m. on Friday, over a long weekend, and then don’t even have the decency to call a press conference and say, ‘Hey, we messed up,'” Johnson said.
Johnson was also charged with possession of child pornography. Records showed on Tuesday that charge was also dismissed. Johnson said that the charge stemmed from an incident on an online game in which his own child was targeted by a man who lived out of the state who was pretending to be a child.
“I don’t want to get into the facts of that, but that was a very despicable man who did despicable things,” Johnson said.
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