A Tarrant County jury this week took 20 minutes to sentence a former Everman deputy fire chief to life in prison for his role in orchestrating a home invasion and rape, officials said.
Joel Jones, 54, admitted Monday to hiring a man to rape a woman he knew as part of a role-play fantasy.
Jones falsely told the man, 31-year-old Tobasia Griffiths, that the woman consented to the attack, and paid Griffiths $100 to carry it out, according to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office. On Feb. 21, 2025, Jones helped Griffiths go to the victim’s house in Fort Worth, enter the home and violently assault her…