Hernandez & his honey bun binge
Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez’s days behind bars included fights with inmates, threats issued to corrections officers and one big binge of honey buns after being hauled out of his McMansion in handcuffs.
The late Hernandez was arrested for the murder of Odin Lloyd on June 26, 2013, and he was held at Bristol County House of Corrections for the majority of his time before trial. He was cagey on the inside, informing sheriff Tom Hodgson that he was “in training camp,” and that he would be proven innocent. Hernandez was eventually convicted of the murder on April 15, 2015 and Massachusetts officials maintain that Hernandez hanged himself in a prison cell last month.
Hernandez was guilty of one violation five months into his stay. On Nov. 20, 2013, Hernandez was on disciplinary detention status for passing notes via a 15-foot fishing line and threatening an officer. The punishment meant that Hernandez was not allowed to order food items from the commissary, but there was a miscommunication among the staff and Hernandez was allowed to purchase 24 honey buns and cosmetics. Hernandez hurried to eat them back in Cell G-1.
“I’m a smart dude,” Hernandez told an officer when approached about the purchase the next day. “I knew you were going to be coming this morning for this stuff. That’s why I ate as much of the food as I could before you came this morning.”
Hernandez twice told the guard, “I am so hungry,” even after downing the honey buns over night. Hernandez kept all the wrappers so that the guard would not think that Hernandez handed the buns out to other prisoners. Hernandez asked if he could finish the final four honey buns, but his request was declined and the buns were confiscated.
Hernandez was sentenced to life for killing Lloyd. He was later acquitted of a double homicide in Boston, but took his life five days later in SouzaBaranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Mass.