A juvenile justice department employee in Texas was recently fired and arrested for a crime that is nearly unbelievable. Gilberto Escaramillo was jailed for stealing fajitas. But it wasn't just swiping a brown paper bag or two that got him locked up for felony theft. Escaramillo had been stealing fajitas for close to a decade from his job, invoicing his department, and reselling them to his own customers.
It is estimated that Escaramillo stole approximately $1.2 million worth of fajitas, which was delivered to his job at the Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department, and invoice the costs to the department. Investigators found that Escaramillo had the scheme going for 9 years, until he missed a day of work to attend a doctor's appointment in August, and forgot to cancel the order for the day. When a delivery driver contacted the department about 800 pounds of fajitas he had been expecting, one of Escaramillo's co-workers informed him that they did not fulfill such requests, which prompted him to remind her that he had been doing business with the department for as long as he could remember.
After reviewing the case the department realized that Escaramillo was one of the reasons it had been consistently over budget. Authorities raided his home to find packages of the food in his refrigerator. “If it wasn’t so serious, you’d think it was a Saturday Night Live skit. But this is the real thing,” Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz told the Brownsville Herald, about the case. "He would literally, on the day he ordered them, deliver them to customers he already had lined up,” he said.
Source: foxnews.com
