AUSTIN MAN smashes his wheelchair-bound grandfather's phone to keep him from calling 911 -- days after the old man took him in off the street to help him get back on his feet. His grandfather had to roll himself out of the apartment and go door to door until a neighbor let him use a phone to get help. Six weeks earlier, Julius Estrada, 22, had been arrested on a felony stolen vehicle charge. He was put in a DA Jose Garza diversion program for a felony theft case. It seems it did not rehabilitate him. Two weeks before he attacked his grandfather, police rushed to a Riverside bus stop after a caller reported two men holding a crying woman down on a bench. When officers arrived, they detained Estrada, who was visibly drunk. He jumped a concrete barrier and ran before officers caught him. In May, a man flagged down police at 1am saying a group had just tried to rob him at a 7-Eleven on Airport Blvd. Estrada was there and ran from officers before he was caught. Two weeks later he was arrested with 15 Adderall pills he admitted buying off the street. County Attorney Delia Garza's office declined to prosecute. In July, 4am, in Manor, he fled a traffic stop driving with no headlights in a car that wasn't his. He blew nearly twice the legal limit with a half-empty 4Loko in the cupholder. Three weeks later, a judge removed his electronic monitoring. Four days after that, he went through four cars in an apartment parking lot, ran from a sergeant, and jumped a fence. While officers searched for him with a drone, he climbed into a man's truck at a QuikTrip pump while the owner was inside buying a drink and put it in drive before the owner confronted him. 8 arrests in 17 months. 4 felony cases. 0 convictions. Next week, his cases are set for a mental health diversion hearing. Since prosecutors and judges don't treat him as a criminal who deserves punishment, his odds of being back on the street and abusing his grandfather again look very likely.