According to court records, 45-year-old Lorenzo Robles was finally arrested this week for an assault that allegedly happened all the way back in August 2024, plus a separate drug possession charge out of Terry County—because of course there’s a bonus charge from another county. The arrest came after a warrant was issued in November and quietly sat around for a couple of months, presumably enjoying the West Texas winter.
The victim told police Robles convinced her to book a hotel room so they could “talk about their relationship,” a phrase that in Lubbock continues to mean anything but talking. Once inside, the conversation reportedly escalated into Robles threatening her life, physically assaulting her, strangling her, and hitting her with a glass weed pipe. In a truly bleak display of creativity, he allegedly forced her to sit in broken glass, slammed her to the ground, and tried to suffocate her with a pillow.
The only thing that stopped it was a hotel cleaning employee knocking to offer fresh towels—accidentally becoming the MVP of this entire story. That brief interruption gave the victim enough time to grab her keys and escape. When she later contacted police, officers documented visible injuries and heard her claim that Robles warned he would kill her if she went to authorities. A threat that, thankfully, didn’t work.
Robles is now in the Lubbock County Detention Center with bonds totaling $90,000, which feels like the bare minimum price tag for turning a hotel room into a crime scene and a relationship “discussion” into attempted murder.
So… how many warning signs does it take before “let’s talk about us” stops being the most dangerous phrase in Lubbock?
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