In today’s episode of Lubbock’s Brightest Stars, 31-year-old Christopher Roy Prieto has been handed a two-year vacation in federal prison. Why? Because he decided that standard semi-automatic handguns were just too “low-energy” for the 806 and decided to spice them up with some illegal machine gun conversion switches.
How did the feds catch this local munitions mastermind? A high-stakes undercover sting? A coordinated SWAT raid? Nope. He got pulled over for expired registration. That’s right—in a city where people treat red lights like suggestions and the wind speed routinely outpaces the local IQ, our guy got bagged because he couldn’t be bothered to visit the DMV.
Once the cops noticed his tags were older than a dusty bottle of Chilton mix, they searched the car and found a “switch”—the nifty little device that turns a handgun into a full-blown machine pistol. Apparently, Prieto was feeling chatty, because he then admitted he had a whole collection of these DIY felony-makers back at his house.
The moral of the story? If you’re going to turn your Glock into a miniature A-10 Warthog, maybe—just maybe—spend the $75 to keep your sticker current. It turns out the Lubbock PD might ignore the guy doing 90 mph in a school zone, but they will absolutely ruin your life over a piece of paper that expired in 2024.
Prieto still has state charges pending, so he’ll have plenty of time to think about his life choices while he’s trading honey buns for protection.
Is it really a “Hub City” weekend if someone isn’t trying to bring 1920s Chicago energy to a Taco Villa parking lot?
