Fajita-gate! (Only in Texas...)

[Crissi]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/south-texas...beef/484240457

BROWNSVILLE - A South Texas county employee was arrested after allegedly stealing a large sum of money, not to buy diamonds or drugs, but beef fajita.

It may sound ridiculous but how can someone get away with over a million dollars’ worth of fajita? Authorities say a juvenile detention center employee was somehow cooking the books for 10 years... Talk about over-done steak!

The KENS 5 Border Team followed the smell of this sizzling story all the way to the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office to ‘meat’ with ‘top chef’ Luis Saenz about “Fajitagate”.

After all, it’s his office that will be doing all the ‘grilling’.

Saenz said that in the course of nine years, Gilberto Escamilla, the head cook of the Cameron County Juvenile Detention Center, used county funds to buy a total of about 180,000 lbs. of the Tex-Mex beef skirt. That’s the total weight of about 90 - 2,000 pounds cows.

With an average price of $7 per pound of fajita, Escamilla is accused of spending,“$1,250,000” Saenz said. “He would ask the driver of the vendor company to call him when they were on their way to deliver the fajita so that he, himself, would take delivery.”

The detention center staff blew Escamilla’s cover in early August when he left the building for a doctor’s appointment and another employee answered the vendor’s call to deliver the meat.

The problem is beef fajita is not part of the official lunch menu.

The District Attorney said Escamilla would sell the fajita to restaurants for profit. If so, how could it be overlooked for so long?

“The investigation has also uncovered that the auditor was pretty negligent in her protocols and in checking,” revealed Saenz.

The KENS 5 Border Team paid a visit to the Cameron County’s Auditor’s Office and were soon turned away without comment.

What’s most upsetting to Saenz is that the county is strapped for funds and this kind of news ‘butchers’ the county’s reputation.

“’We’re short $800,000 to run the county.’” Saenz recalled a comment made during the county’s commissioners court. “Well guess what? Guess where the $800,000 is? It just went up in fajitas.”

The District Attorney’s Office isn’t naming the buyers and restaurants the fajita was sold to. Saenz says they don’t believe they will be able to recover any of the meat or the money since it has already been spent. However, the DA isn’t ruling out pursuing restitution.

Im not sure whats worse, 1.2 mil stolen for fajita to be resold, or the amount of puns in this news story.

[Independent voter]

That's a lot of puns! That's my only beef with this story.

[ReD-EyeD]

I had to google fajita. Now I want it.

[Cerilis]

Definitely the puns.

[unfilteredJW]

I was less impressed after I read he was selling them rather than eating 1.2 million in fajitas over 9 years.

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I had to google fajita. Now I want it.

Super easy and cheap to make. The hardest part is deciding corn or flour tortilla.

[Video Games]

Free that man. He did nothing wrong.

[Mihalik]

Im not sure whats worse, 1.2 mil stolen for fajita to be resold, or the amount of puns in this news story.

There's someone in Florida reading this and going- Hold my mojito!

[Video Games]

Floridaman is reading this and going- Hold my bath salts!

Ftfy
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[bladeXcrasher]

I was less impressed after I read he was selling them rather than eating 1.2 million in fajitas over 9 years.

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Super easy and cheap to make. The hardest part is deciding corn or flour tortilla.

Flour is for breakfast, if you like flour. Corn is best all the time. Flour is too filling and just plain nasty.

[Treno]

People having a cow over the puns.

[unfilteredJW]

Flour is for breakfast, if you like flour. Corn is best all the time. Flour is too filling and just plain nasty.

Yeah, for me it's a no brainer and to always go corn. But some people like flour.

But once you grill a corn tort and use it you don't go back.

[Molis]

I like flour for something like a burrito that needs to stay folded.

For Taco, Fajitas, etc corn all the way

[God Save The King]

Flour is for breakfast, if you like flour. Corn is best all the time. Flour is too filling and just plain nasty.

I can't stand corn tortillas >.>, taste like cardboard and go all grainy when you chew them. It's like they're almost soggy or something?

[unfilteredJW]

I can't stand corn tortillas >.>, taste like cardboard and go all grainy when you chew them. It's like they're almost soggy or something?

Grill them before you serve them, rather than steam. Most places just toss them in the microwave.

Changes the flavor and texture.

[God Save The King]

Grill them before you serve them, rather than steam. Most places just toss them in the microwave.

Changes the flavor and texture.

You heat them? I just put stuff in them and ate them out the fridge like the delicious flour counterparts.

I must try this soon.

[unfilteredJW]

You heat them? I just put stuff in them and ate them out the fridge like the delicious flour counterparts.

I must try this soon.

You definitely want to heat them. Corn is just neat in that it changes flavor and texture when you apply heat to it. You can even just do it in a pan rather than use a grill (simulates a flat top).

Hell, next time, do it with a flour ones. Take 1 to 3, cover them in a wet paper towel, and heat them in the microwave for like 15 seconds. Flour torts are denser so they won't get that mushy mouth feel like you were describing with the corn.

[Belize]

Super easy and cheap to make. The hardest part is deciding corn or flour tortilla.

"Hard" you mean you don't always just go for corn?

What are you, a pleb?

[unfilteredJW]

"Hard" you mean you don't always just go for corn?

What are you, a pleb?

You should read the rest of the posts :P

[Video Games]

You heat them? I just put stuff in them and ate them out the fridge like the delicious flour counterparts.

I must try this soon.

I can't fathom how you never thought to try this out.

[Belize]

You should read the rest of the posts :P

But I'm le tired.