Texas worker stole $1.2m of fajitas over 9 years
STOP! That fajita might be stolen. Fox reports on a $1.2m fajita scam:
Former Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department employee Gilberto Escaramillo missed work one day in August for a medical appointment, the same day a delivery driver called the kitchen about having 800 pounds of fajitas to drop off, the paper said.
A woman informed the driver that the juvenile department didn’t serve the Tex-Mex food – but the driver said he’d been delivering it for nine years, Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz told the Herald.
“When Mr. Escaramilla reports to work the next day, he is confronted with the discussion and he admits he had been stealing fajitas for nine years,” Saenz said.
Escaramilla was fired that month and arrested after investigators obtained a search warrant and found packages of the Tex-Mex food in his refrigerator, Saenz explained.
They also checked invoices and determined he would intercept county-funded food deliveries and deliver them to his own customers, according to the newspaper.
He was determined to have stolen $1,251,578 of fajitas, the report added. Escaramilla was arrested last week on a felony theft charge.
At least he used his own fridge…
Posted: 18th, October 2017 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
