Lubbock police say 18-year-old Adrian Castilleja spent the better part of a year doing his own personal Grand Theft Auto: Lubbock Edition—complete with convenience store robbery, drive-by shooting at his ex’s house, and threatening to blow his girlfriend’s brains out. Real romantic, this guy.
It all started last December, when our masked entrepreneur strolled into an EZ Mart at 3 a.m. wearing a hoodie that literally said “Make Money, Not Friends.” He fired a shot into the ceiling to show he meant business. Unfortunately for him, the clerk—who is almost certainly over this town’s bullshit—simply said no. And he left. That’s right. Fired a warning shot and still got denied like a sad man at a club closing.
Fast forward to April: shots fired in a neighborhood, shell casings found, and Dad identifies him as his daughter’s abusive ex. Video evidence, Nissan Altima, temporary tags—because nothing says “I blend in” like the Official Car of Lubbock Crime.
Then in May, police say he beat and choked his girlfriend, threatened to put a hole in her face, and she managed to escape. By July, cops found the gun, mask, and enough ammunition to reenact Red Dawn… and yet somehow this took nine months to culminate in an arrest even though everyone involved seemed to know exactly who he was the entire time.
But justice did eventually come knocking. And surprisingly, it did not just shrug and go, “Ah, he’ll turn himself in later, probably.”
He’s now in the Lubbock County Detention Center on bonds totaling $200,000, where hopefully the only thing he’s shooting off is excuses that sound as flimsy as that sweatshirt slogan.
Imagine committing multiple felonies across three city blocks and still thinking you are the main character. Only in Lubbock.
