Starr County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census,its population was 65,920. Its county seat is Rio Grande City. The county was created in 1848. It is named for James Harper Starr,who served as secretary of the treasury of the Republic of Texas.
Juan Raul Garza was an American murderer and drug lord who was executed by the United States federal government for three drug-related murders. In addition,Garza was linked to at least five other drug-related murders in Texas and Mexico. He was executed in 2001,eight days after Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas is the federal district court with jurisdiction over the southeastern part of Texas. The court's headquarters is in Houston,Texas,and has six additional locations in the district.
Donna Independent School District is a public school district based in Donna,Texas (USA).
Filemón BartoloméVela was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The infighting in the Gulf Cartel refers to a series of confrontations between the Metros and the Rojos,two factions within Gulf Cartel that engaged in a power struggle directly after the death of the drug lord Samuel Flores Borrego in September 2011. The infighting has lasted through 2013,although the Metros have gained the advantage and regained control of the major cities controlled by the cartel when it was essentially one organization.
The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is a local law enforcement agency serving the nearly one million residents of Hidalgo County,Texas,United States. It is headquartered in Edinburg,Texas,the county seat of Hidalgo County.
J.E. "Eddie" Guerra is the Sheriff of Hidalgo County,Texas. The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is a local law enforcement agency serving the over one million citizens of Hidalgo County,Texas,United States. On April 2,2014,the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court appointed J.E. "Eddie" Guerra,who was Hidalgo County Precinct 4 Constable at the time,to replace Guadalupe Treviño,who resigned on March 28,2014,saying both internal and external pressure started building on December 12,2012,when the Panama Unit scandal broke. On November 4,2014,Sheriff Eddie Guerra was elected by a majority of voters to the post he had held for seven months and the victory kept him in office until 2016,since former Sheriff Treviño was in the second of a four-year term. In 2016,he was up for re-election to a full term.
William G. McConnell Unit (ML) is a Texas state prison located in unincorporated Bee County,Texas,along Texas State Highway 181,1 mile (1.6 km) east of the city limits of Beeville. It is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).
Irene Garza was an American schoolteacher and beauty queen whose death was the subject of investigation for several decades. She was last seen alive on April 16,1960,when she went to confession at a church in McAllen,Texas. She was reported missing the following morning. Following the largest volunteer search to that date in the Rio Grande Valley,Garza's body was discovered in a canal on April 21. An autopsy concluded that she had been sexually assaulted before being killed;the cause of death was suffocation.
On March 3,1993,Saint Joseph Academy high school senior Albert Joseph "Joey" Fischer Jr. was shot dead outside his home in Rancho Viejo,an upscale community north of Brownsville,Texas. Dora Cisneros,the mother of his ex-girlfriend,was responsible for orchestrating Fischer's murder after he broke up with her daughter Cristina. Fischer and Cristina had broken up the previous summer,but Cisneros became obsessed with their relationship and insisted that Fischer date her daughter again. After he refused a US$500 offer from Cisneros,she consulted María Mercedes Martínez,a fortune teller,to cast a spell on him.
JoséManuel Garza Rendón,also known as La Brocha,is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico. In 1979,he was convicted of drug-related charges in the U.S. Back in Mexico in 1985,Garza Rendón joined the Federal Judicial Police;released in 1989,he joined the Gulf Cartel. His roles in the cartel were managing drug shipments from the U.S. to Mexico and serving as bodyguard to former kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.
Gilberto García Mena,also known as El June,is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico. He began his criminal career as a small-time marijuana smuggler in his teens,and later joined the Gulf Cartel under kingpin Juan García Ábrego. García Mena was arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas while possessing marijuana in 1984,but was released without a conviction. He returned to Mexico,and established a center of operations in Nuevo León. García Mena was arrested on drug-trafficking charges in 1989,but authorities were again unable to convict him. Released in 1990,he rejoined the Gulf Cartel.
Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna is a Mexican convicted criminal and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico. He was also a senior member in Los Zetas,the Gulf Cartel's former paramilitary group. In the 1990s,de la Cruz Reyna was an officer in the Tamaulipas State Police while working as a hitman for the Gulf Cartel. After he left the agency in 1999,he became a bodyguard for former Gulf Cartel kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén,and was eventually promoted to regional leader of the cartel in Tampico. He reportedly had policemen on his payroll,and managed international drug trafficking shipments from Central and South America.
Carlos Landín Martínez,also known as El Puma,was a Mexican former police chief and convicted drug lord. He was a high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico,and worked as the second-in-command of the cartel in Reynosa from 2005 to 2007. Landín Martínez was a trusted enforcer of the kingpin Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa. Among his responsibilities were managing international drug trafficking shipments from Tamaulipas to Texas,collecting taxes from independent traffickers who operated in his turf,and managing money laundering operations. Landín Martínez was also a commander in the Tamaulipas State Police,where he headed the homicide taskforce. According to a witness who testified against him in court,Landín Martínez worked for the Gulf Cartel while still employed by the state police.
Gilberto Lerma Plata is a Mexican former police chief and convicted drug lord. He began his career in 1993 as a police officer in the Tamaulipas State Police when his cousin Manuel Cavazos Lerma became Governor of Tamaulipas. Lerma Plata was eventually promoted to police commander in Reynosa and Miguel Alemán. In the late 1990s,while still working for the police,Lerma Plata joined the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,for whom he facilitated drug trafficking operations from Mexico to the US,coordinated cash smuggling operations,and aided in the procurement of firearms.
Idalia Ramos Rangel is a Mexican business owner and suspected drug lord. According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),she is a high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico. In the cartel,Ramos Rangel is known by her aliases Big Momma and La Tía. She has reportedly been responsible for coordinating international drug trafficking shipments from Mexico to the United States since the mid-1980s. Her role in organized crime is unusual,as a woman active in the male-dominated Mexican drug trafficking industry over several decades.
María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata is a Mexican former police officer and convicted drug lord. She worked as a Tamaulipas State Police officer from 1992 to 1996. During her tenure in the police,she was subject to several investigations by the National Human Rights Commission for alleged human rights violations. In the late 1990s,she became involved with the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico,after being hired to work under the kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. She was responsible for coordinating drug trafficking shipments from Colombia,Guatemala,and Mexico to the U.S. The drugs were often guarded by corrupt policemen and smuggled overland through Reynosa and McAllen,Texas. Her role in organized crime is unusual since she held a leadership role in the male-dominated Mexican drug trafficking industry.
Ediel López Falcón,also known as La Muela or Metro 5,is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel,a criminal group based in Tamaulipas,Mexico. He was the regional boss of Miguel Alemán and helped coordinate international drug trafficking shipments from South and Central America to Mexico and the U.S. His roles in the cartel were also to coordinate oil theft operations. In 2012,he was indicted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for drug trafficking activities. After fleeing Mexico to avoid gang-related violence,López Falcón was arrested in Texas during a sting operation in 2013. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2015. He is currently imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution,Fort Dix in New Jersey. His expected release date is in 2029.
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club has been designated an outlaw motorcycle gang by the U.S. Department of Justice. The club is involved in drug trafficking,weapons trafficking,prostitution,money laundering,explosives violations,motorcycle and motorcycle-parts theft,intimidation,insurance fraud,kidnapping,robbery,theft,stolen property,counterfeiting,contraband smuggling,murder,bombings,extortion,arson and assault. The Bandidos partake in transporting and distributing cocaine and marijuana,and the production,transportation and distribution of methamphetamine. Active primarily in the Northwestern,Southeastern,Southwestern and the West Central regions,there are an estimated 800 to 1,000 Bandidos members and 93 chapters in 16 U.S. states.
