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Rio Grande Detention Center is a privately owned prison for men located in Laredo, Webb County, Texas, operated by GEO Group under contract with the U.S. government Office of the Federal Detention Trustee. The prison was originally built in 2007, opened in 2008, and has an official capacity of 1900 federal detainees awaiting trial. [1]
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The John Kinney Gang, also known as the Rio Grande Posse, was an outlaw gang of the Old West which operated during the mid-1870s into the mid-1880s. The gang was organized by outlaw John Kinney, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. From its beginning, the gang primarily committed acts of robbery and cattle rustling.
John Knight Giles (February 16, 1895 – February 8, 1979) was an inmate at Alcatraz prison, most well known for an escape attempt in 1945. [1] [2] [3] He was originally sentenced to the United States Penitentiary on May 11, 1935, for attempted robbery of the Denver and Rio Grande Western mail train; he had previously been serving a life sentence in Oregon for murder before escaping.
Sánchez was born into a Mexican American family in Rio Grande City, Texas. He spent one year at the University of Texas at Austin on an ROTC scholarship, eventually transferring to Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where he graduated in 1973 with a double major in mathematics and history. Sánchez was named a Distinguished Military Graduate ...
[7] [5] According to Diário do Grande ABC, he was the "greatest serial killer the state's history" at the time of his arrest. [ 8 ] In February 2002, Guimarães was sentenced to 171 years, 4 months and 20 days imprisonment for the commission of 14 crimes (7 homicides, one attempted murder, 3 robberies, 2 attempted robberies and one rape).
The Presidio de San Miguel el Grande, founded in 1542 in San Miguel de Allende. The Presidio de León, founded in 1576 in León. The Presidio de Santa Fe de Guanaxuato, founded in 1576 in Guanajuato. The Presidio de la Purisíma Concepción de Zalaya, founded in 1570 in Celaya. The Presidio de León, founded in 1576 in León.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1] The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas, Mexico.