What’s worse than being fired on your day off? Being fired the day after your day off for stealing over a million dollars worth of fajitas sure ranks high on the list.
Meet Gilberto Escamilla, who up until recently was gainfully employed at Texas’ Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department. On August 7, Escamilla had the day off and the next day when he returned to work he was arrested, charged with first-degree theft-a felony -and is now the subject of an ongoing investigation. Buddy Gilberto was running a side business funded by his main gig, without them knowing.
Here’s what happened: “During his absence, a driver from Labatt Food Service – the Juvenile Justice Department’s meat vendor – called to verify an order they were preparing to deliver: 800 pounds of fajitas. An employee at the department first dismissed the order as a mistake, given the fact that the facility does not serve fajitas.
It was then that the driver informed the woman on the phone that his company has been filling the fajita order to the facility for nearly a decade. ‘When Mr. Escamilla reports to work the next day, he is confronted with the discussion and he admits he had been stealing fajitas for nine years.’
Escamilla was immediately fired from his position and placed under arrest on August 9.
When police searched his home, they discovered his refrigerator packed with fajitas.
Law enforcement officials said that after looking through inventory records and conducting an audit at Labatt Food Service, they concluded that Escamilla had stolen $1,251,578 worth of food. “He would literally, on the day he ordered them, deliver them to customers he had already lined up.”
Source: DailyMail
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