Escamilla’s first mistake was taking a day off from work on August 7th for a doctor’s appointment. On the day in question, the Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department received an order of 800 pounds (!!) of fajitas, supposedly for the office’s kitchen to prepare for detainees. Fajitas aren’t on the menu at this particular institution, though, and when the delivery driver was told this he answered back that he had been making such deliveries there for almost ten years. And so, when Escamilla showed up for work the next day, he confessed to the crime of stealing hundreds of pounds of fajita fixins under the false auspices of the Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department. He was immediately fired, but it wasn’t until investigators searched his home and followed a paper trail stretching back nearly a decade that they were able to total up the value of his stolen fajita haul: $1,251,578 (it’s unknown how many fajitas this is, but it must be an awful lot). Escamilla reportedly made bail following his first arrest, but once authorities realized the extent of his crimes he was arrested again on felony first-degree theft charges.
