Welcome to the Hub City, where the only thing flatter than the horizon is the career trajectory of our local criminal masterminds. Today’s episode of Lubbock Sucks: Crime Edition brings us the heartwarming tale of five local entrepreneurs who decided that the best way to spice up our dust-blown plains was by importing enough fentanyl to make a CVS pharmacist weep.
Adam Baber and Jessica Clauson just received their gold watches—in the form of 19 and 20-year sentences in federal prison—for their roles in a drug-trafficking ring that treated the New Mexico border like a Costco run. Along with their buddies “Dreds” (who is now looking at a cool 30 years) and the rest of the crew, these geniuses were responsible for flooding our streets with 100,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of meth. Because if there’s one thing Lubbock was missing, it was more reasons to hallucinate while driving down Slide Road.
The most charming detail from the DOJ report? These aspiring kingpins referred to their hauls of 10,000 pills as “yachts.” Nothing says “I’m a sophisticated drug lord” quite like using high-seas terminology in a landlocked desert where the closest thing to a body of water is a flooded playa lake after a half-inch of rain. Unfortunately for them, their “yachts” hit an iceberg in the form of a traffic stop in New Mexico and a search warrant that uncovered a small arsenal and enough drugs to kill half the South Plains.
So, while Adam, Jessica, and “Dreds” spend the next two decades reflecting on their nautical adventures from the comfort of a federal bunk, the rest of us can get back to the usual Lubbock pastimes: complaining about the wind and wondering why we can’t have nice things.
If they wanted to see a “yacht” that badly, wouldn’t a weekend trip to Possum Kingdom have been cheaper than 20 years in the clink?
https://www.kcbd.com/2026/02/05/two-defendants-sentenced-lubbock-drug-trafficking-ring/