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A former prison official in South Texas was sentenced last week to 50 years (FIFTY. YEARS!) in prison for stealing fajitas (fajitas?) from the state.

Gilberto Escamilla, 53, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of theft by a public servant, according to the Brownsville Herald.

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“It was selfish. It started small and got bigger and out of control,” Escamilla said in court, according to the paper. “It got to the point where I couldn’t control it anymore.”

Escamilla spent more than eight years lifting fajitas meant for the juvenile inmates of Cameron County, near the Mexican border, and selling them on to private customers.

His scheme unravelled last summer when he took an ill-timed personal day, the Herald reported in October. A driver from Labatt Food Service, the juvenile system’s meat supplier, appeared at the jail on Aug. 7 with an 800-pound order of fajitas.

The only problem: the jail doesn’t serve fajitas.