The case status is Disposed - Dismissed. Escuders client had been sentenced to eighteen months in federal prisonsix months longer than others in his group because hed had the misfortune of appearing before a different judge. The prize for winning was significant: 14,000 pesos ($765), which, coincidentally, was nearly the going rate for running drugs across the border. There was no sewer connection in their trailer, and electricity came from an extension cord that stretched from his grandparents house. Robert Stanley Chambers August 10, 1952 February 4, 2022 Robert Stanley Chambers, of Talty, Texas, passed away on February 4th, 2022, at his home in Talty. ST v CASTILLO,ROBERT EASTMAN Case Summary On 01/26/2018 ST filed an Other - Other Criminal lawsuit against CA ST ILLO,ROBERT EA ST MAN. But, as they staked it out, they realized they were not alone. Vega didnt know the men whod recruited him, which is typical in backpacker cases, so they didnt have any information to offer prosecutors in exchange for a shorter sentence. At his sentencing hearing May 10, Thompson apologized and his wife made a final plea for leniency. Later came the even more formidable Amado Carrillo Fuentes, leader of the Jurez cartel. Refine Your Search Results All Filters 1 Robert Warren Chambers, 83 Resides in Austin, TX Lived In Houston TX, Cedar Park TX Competitors from all over the world, electrified by "Born to Run", made the pilgrimage to the Tarahumara homeland. The third time, though, in February 2007, Border Patrol agents found him and two others hiding in creosote bushes one hundred miles west of Las Cruces, with three backpacks that totaled 194 pounds. Chambers, who cooperated with the DEA, got life also but was released after serving 18 years. Eagle Realty Group & Associate, (573) 336-0003. Cops and crooks are of the same caliber. More than five hundred Tarahumara, Silvino included, resolved to carry on anyway, and the mayor agreed to a version that cut out the downriver loop, where the major shoot-out had occurred. Hed expected to see one person on trial. He was 36, but people still remembered him from the summer of 1986 when he was 19. The female racers wore their everyday clothes: skirts full of reds, yellows, pinks, and blues, and matching head scarves to block the sun. I had worked with him through the years on different situations with students and parents, and we always had a very friendly and professional relationship, he added. And not only did Thompson use Chambers as a confidential source, the sheriff went to bat for him over his legal problems. He had to run. He finished second in an ultramarathon in Austria, the first of many races in more than half a dozen countries where his expenses were paid and the possible earnings were worth the trip. Chambers was well acquainted with smugglers from Mexico and eventually became close to Pablo Acosta, the drug lord of Ojinaga. Paul Chambers was sitting in his Alpine office when he got an email about a new client named Sebastian Vega Genoveva waiting for him in jail. The female racers wore their everyday clothes: skirts full of reds, yellows, pinks, and blues, and matching head scarves to block the sun. He was conditioned to navigating switchbacks. Hed told me that sometimes he felt fated to stay in West Texas, and yet he often felt apart from it. Show Phone. He passed the now extinguished fire pit and its dogs and cats, a fenced-in flock of garrulous turkeys, and local government officials eating breakfast inside the lodges small gazebo. A day before the race, however, Jurez hit men stormed the police station, seizing two officers and a teenager, and American organizers called off the race. Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home OBITUARY Robert Mark Chambers March 17, 1943 - January 9, 2014 Chambers, Robert Mark ("Bob"), 70, of Winter Haven and Ft. Pierce, Florida passed away of heart failure January 9, 2014. By 2010, entire communities had emptied out of the canyons, and some ten thousand had fled to the city of Chihuahua, where they were more easily conscripted into smuggling. Though the Tarahumara largely kept to themselves, poverty and hunger made them targets for narcos looking for mules willing to make the demanding trek to designated drug drop-off points in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Wherever I looked, in Alpine and Marfa and later Presidio, I saw makeshift villages of turnkey houses, the whitewashed barracks of Border Patrol. His wife, Barbara Jean, worked at the Marfa National Bank. Robert Chambers grew up on the border in south Presidio County, where his mother taught in a small school in Candelaria. This was the most common drug crossing in her cases, she said. Buchmeyer gave him the max: Two life terms without a chance of parole. . But I knew, he recalled. A month later, Chambers stood next to Vega againthis time in an El Paso courtroomfor a second and final hearing on his slightly improved sentence. Other Land for Sale in Texas County 30 acres $90,000. View Robert I Chambers results in Texas (TX) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Its untamable, though his family certainly tried. He recalled his 62-mile ultramarathon victory in Costa Rica, where hed felt he might collapse. Spotting the same vehicle minutes later, still driving dark, the agent recognized it. We know that Earlene Love, Erline Love, and three other persons also lived at this address, perhaps within a different time frame. Theyd reach it before daybreak. The sheriffs office in Marfa where former Sheriff Rick Thompson. None of his companions had made it out. A little time in the Western District of Texas jail isnt going to keep you from trying to feed your family.. At first, Vega didnt seem to understand what Chambers was saying through his translator. I couldnt accept the fact that a man I had worked with and trusted for the last five years could possibly be involved in drugs. There were some things you couldnt outrun. The property dispute over Moses Roses Hideout is by no means the first obstacle consultants and city and state officials have faced in the evolution of the Alamo project. Robert Chambers Research Associate Email r.chambers@ids.ac.uk Telephone +44 (0)1273 915723 On this page Academic links Research Opinions Publications Professor Robert Chambers has a background in biology, history and public administration. MLS ID #2490541. View Robert H Chambers's profile for company associations, background information, and partnerships. His first time, in 2005, he did just that, tossing his mochila into the back of a truck on a highway near El Paso. Chambers had seen many of these harsh sentences handed out, including to drug runners who were essentially forced into smuggling. His mother, Christine, didnt want to stay in Alpine because of the publicity. But on the afternoon of March 6, Border Patrol agents found him and five others sleeping in the brush west of Marfa. Search law firms at FindLaw. Volunteers were on hand to offer cheese sandwiches, bananas, and oranges. He messed up one time. He dreaded telling his client. Though clouds had gathered off and on over the villagers homesdark, billowing masses that overshadowed their huts among the fields of cornit had not rained. A pair of uncles on his moms side also went to prison for drug offenses, and so did a paternal uncle. A veteran of the DEA at the time, he had previously served in Mexico and Panama and was partner to Kiki Camarena, the DEA agent violently tortured and murdered in Mexico in 1985. In August 2016, Chvez had decried the work of the cartels in downtown Chihuahua on the International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples before a crowd of several thousand. Thompson in a portrait with his jail staff. Stinson was the lead investigator for the Drug Enforcement Agency in the bust. Robert Emmet Chambers Jr. has spent much of his life in the limelight, after entering the public eye as a 19-year-old youngster who was the prime suspect for the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. Thompson became sheriff in May 1973 after Sheriff Hank Hamilton was shot to death. The smell of charcoal-grilled chicken filled the air. The darkness lifted just beyond the otherwise dreary concrete plaza, revealing the fertile valley that gives Cerocahui its name: between two mountains. The slope up the mountainside was rocky and dusty, the soil eroded from years of logging and grazing. I got involved in politics and in 1976 we had a candidate for sheriff, Manny Rodriguez, a city policeman.. There has to be a better way to deal with this, she said. According to Women's Health, Chambers was the only child born to Phyllis Chambers and Robert Chambers Sr. (His mom is pictured in the photo above with her son.) Chambers also was involved in several gun battles on the border, saved six hunters from a fiery plane crash in the desert, and was shot three times in the back in an assassination attempt on a Mexican fishing boat. Rick Thompson, former Presidio County sheriff, and rancher Glyn Robert Chambers received life terms from U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of Dallas for shipping the cocaine across the Rio Grande River on Dec. 3, 1991. In the middle of August, Silvino and seven others cleared eight acres of weeds by hand amid a plague of red ants, tarantulas, bees, gnats, flies, scorpions, snakes, floods, and 125-degree heat. At the Caballo Blanco, both Silvino and Arnulfo proved themselves, and though Jurek passed Silvino near the end of the 47 miles, he couldnt catch Arnulfo. According to McNamara, Thompson mismanaged task force funds, illegally destroyed its records and grossly exaggerated its accomplishments. True wondered how they would fare against the Tarahumara, and he sought to revitalize these local traditions. ), he added. Most of the visiting runners, who had come from 23 countries, made their way out under military escort. He got along with almost everybody, except those he locked up. Once there, he picked chiles to earn the bus fare farther south to Chihuahua City, where he finally cobbled together the fare to Huisuchi by making cheese at a, Silvino swore he would never run drugs again, but by 2010, there was still not enough food to eat. (He starred in a public service announcement TV ad urging people to call in and help lock up smugglers.). He was sentenced to 19 years behind barswhere he remains today. He grew up believing hed never see him again outside of prison. Vega, it turned out, was a Tarahumara. He would share his produce with family, friends, and neighbors, a true labor of love. He crossed abandoned desert valleys on old Apache land with nothing to eat, drinking only dung-infested runoff water. The sheriff had also helped deliver various loads, the agency claimed, altogether earning him $70,000 to $80,000 in drug money. They were taken from Chambers county, Ala., by said Ware to Texas some-where about the year 1847. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Robert Leroy Chambers to show support. A DEA informant had also linked Thompson directly to the drug deal. He passed fields with corn stalks as tall as the cabins beside them, and a few loose cows and goats. Chambers dug out the sentencing guidelines: a scant .11 pounds of meth would double their potential sentences, from five to ten years. The citizens, he said. Up ahead, they saw the lights of a highway and knew they were within a dozen miles of their drop-off. Robert is a managing . The six-foot-two Chambers towered over him by more than a foot. To help keep them on the ranch, his grandmother Johnnie earned a teaching degree from Sul Ross State University in her forties, and she ran the two-room schoolhouse in Candelaria for 25 years. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents left him in Jurez without enough money for a bus ticket home. Two weeks earlier, sicarios, or hit men, had stopped in Rejogochi to ask for Chvez, the young activist, and her father, Makawi. For finishing third, Silvino earned 8,000 pesos, enough to remain free of the cartels, at least for a while longer. Mounds of melon-size rocks blanketed every grave. At the square, a dozen bedraggled municipal police, a few seemingly too young to grow facial hair, loitered with unloaded AK-47sgoats horns, they called them. Many of these were caught and processed as so-called backpacker cases: groups of six or more Mexican men arrested in the mountains, each carrying about 45 pounds of marijuana. When Border Patrol agents arrested this group of six and weighed the marijuana bricksall 256 poundsthey realized that one felt different. The thick old-growth trees had been chopped down long ago and sent to the sawmills of nearby Bahuichivo. Chambers thought about how Vega wouldnt be there for his two sons as they grew into their teens. Remote and rugged, West Texas, along with much of the southwestern United States, has long been a key drug-smuggling corridor. Silvino, with his farmland afflicted by unrelenting drought, was one of the desperate ones, so he signed on to tote drugs. See the links below for more info. Texas Department of Criminal Justice | PO Box 99 . The reasons for this were, in some ways, fated. It was one of Thompson's more dubious associations, a local man named Glyn Robert Chambers, that apparently led to his downfall. There are people who kill or rape who serve less time, he noted. In. This is a carousel. Soon the sound of the dirt bike faded. The drug lord known as El Zorro de Ojinaga (The Ojinaga Fox) was a mentor to Chambers and played a significant role as The Plaza who controlled all drug movement through the region into the U.S. Acosta, who was gunned down in 1987 by Mexican federales (with the assistance of the FBI) is featured in the recent Narcos Mexico series and the book Drug Lord, by former El Paso Times reporter Terrance Poppa. They had a huge drug bust, but the end result was they got a tiny amount of drugs from college kids, cooks and drifters, McNamara recalled. (Robert Chambers was released in 2005 after serving 13 years. Silvino wore athletic gear and blue-and-yellow Asicsthe trails were too slippery, the roads too hard, for huaraches. He was the snake he had the contacts in Mexico, he said. mother, Christine, didnt want to stay in Alpine because of the publicity. The Chambers' gift creates the J. Robert Chambers '89 and Kimberly A. He wore two hats, as the sheriff and tax assessor. He had grown up on the ancient tales of men who sprinkled bone dust on the course the night before, thought to induce fatigue in your competitors. He became frustrated with the legal system, which he felt was too focused on punishing his family members for their addictions rather than helping them. The Border Patrol had found them. He left three years later as a sergeant. It was March 2015, and the 27-year-old, with sandy-brown hair and a neatly cropped beard, was fresh out of law school. Tarahumara is a Spanish corruption of the tribes name, Rarmuri, meaning ones with light feet or foot runners.. Carrillo earned the nickname, Lord of the Skies, by bringing airliners packed with cocaine directly from Colombia to Mexico, with some of it bound for Presidio County. When I stopped by his office one afternoon to see if he would visit Candelaria with me, he declined. Rick had such good favor. e cartel war ricocheted from one canyon to the next, Urique became one of the last towns to be engulfed by intense violence. In 1977, on a highway south of Marfa, Presidio County Sheriff Rick Thompson, far right, posed for Texas Monthly with his crew (left to right) Jailer Robert Guevara, Deputy Gary Painter, and Deputy Roger Brito. From then on gunfire could routinely be heard in the town and up the canyon. Barajas still recalls the general reaction when Thompson was implicated in the cocaine seized at the fairgrounds. The six-foot-two Chambers towered over him by more than a foot. When he was thirteen, they went to live with his mothers family, in Abilene. Dominguez said he also has a troubled relationship with the DEA, and that he, too, is whispered by some as being corrupt. They both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life in prison. He laughed at the memory of a rarajipari when an opposing team cast a spell on his team. As a result, Vegaperforming the lowest, most expendable role in the drug tradecarried the burden himself. The thick old-growth trees had been chopped down long ago and sent to the sawmills of nearby Bahuichivo. He and his cousins would be paid 15,000 pesos ($825) apiece. But Thompson, with brains, nerve and political savvy, proved up to the all-consuming job of being a rural West Texas sheriff. Runners would have to reach the plaza, grab another bracelet, and then double back to the edge of town before returning. He had escaped, but Silvino continued running through the night, slept half of the next day, and then ran through the afternoon and the next night. Now, 26 years after Thompson was sent to federal prison, his troubling shadow lingers over Marfa. According to the DEA, Thompson had also moved the ton of drugs from the border to Marfa in his green Suburban. The revelation, he said, left him feeling used, humiliated and dumb.. Most of the visiting runners, who had come from 23 countries, made their way out under military escort. The object of their intense interest was a red horse trailer parked at the county fairgrounds east of town. Of course, drug traffickers also know this. He was doing this stuff and they never knew. Chambers, now 65, was quick to cooperate with federal officials and only served 13 years of a life sentence. The end came quickly for Thompson: On Jan. 9, 1992, he was indicted on four federal drug offenses, and was suspended as sheriff. Cook, a native of Alpine, knew the area well and helped manage the surveillance of Chambers and cultivating their informants. Escuder had recently defended a Tarahumara man in his fifties who, they realized, had been in Vegas brickmaking crew. Sunlight broke through the slim canopy. , Now here he was, with six members of his own familynearly a year after, Then, all at once, they saw the spotlights. But I had my suspicions. It seemed that everyone profited except the Tarahumara. Now here he was, with six members of his own familynearly a year after Born to Run had become an international best sellerstriding through the dark up the boot heel of New Mexico. Thomas Chambers. The next day, he drove two hours with Liz Rogers, a thirty-year former federal defender known for pulling out long-shot victories, to the West Texas Detention Facility, in Sierra Blanca, to see Vega. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, Former Presidio County Sheriff Rick Thompson. The second time, he completed his drop at a fancy hotel outside Las Cruces, New Mexico. I have never heard Still, he got paid only if he successfully completed his mission. An informant had told the federal drug agents a tantalizing tale. Chambers told Vega that it was a good deal, and it helped when the Federal Bureau of Prisons sent back a recommendation of 46 months instead of 60. Had he been arrested the second time in New Mexico, she said, he would have faced a mandatory five years in prison. They had come from as far away as Chihuahua, riding two buses for eleven hours combined. The vast majority of cases were for illegal entryimmigration crimes eclipsed all other federal offensesbut they also saw increased numbers of traffickers. Thompson is scheduled to get out April 14, 2018.). He just didnt like coming here, and I could see why. Nobody was warming up when he arrived; the Tarahumara dont stretch. Man, I never saw this coming. It may have been thirty. International runners and film crews descended on the Sierra Tarahumara. Unwrapping it, they discovered a plastic container with a pound of methamphetamine inside. His wife, Hilda, begged him not to go, but he felt he had no choice. Others sought his counsel. Of course, drug traffickers also know this. That ended abruptly with his guilty plea Feb. 11, 1992, forcing them to accept that their Walking Tall law officer was a drug smuggler. In these rugged gorges, they developed a unique running style that eventually brought them fame. Cook, a U.S. Customs agent, was DEA agent Dale Stinsons partner. The only liquids to be found were two cans of Lone Star and three cans of Bud Light that had been left for Boyd at his headstone. Vega and his family had fled the canyons to find work in Chihuahua, and though he got a job as a brickmaker, it barely sustained them. It had once served as an outpost for tourists exploring the natural beauty of the surrounding canyons, which helped keep it relatively tranquil until a Sinaloa bosss nephew was murdered there, in late 2014. Her caseload was so large she had to meet with up to nine clients at a time, but she patiently explained to each one how their case would unfold and made them all laugh. Imagine walking this with forty-four pounds on your back, she said, not counting food and water. He couldnt count on his corn harvest to yield enough food for his family, and his chia project was still unpredictable. ClustrMaps. By early spring their corn was burned on the stalk. It's the 1970s in Far West Texas, and local bad boy Robert Chambers has always found his way to troublewomen, drugs, rock stars, mountain lions. Youve done this before., In fact, Silvino had carried a mochila, as the narcos called it, three times before. Robert Chambers in Texas We found 15 records for Robert Chambers in Lolita, Round Rock and 11 other cities in Texas. Studied Registered Nurse at Lone Star College System Class of 2008 Associates of Applied Science in Nursing Studied Trumpet Performance at Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester September 1, 1993 - May 15, 1994 Studied at Spring High School Class of 1993 High school Went to Spring High School Photos See all photos After the fairgrounds drug bust, he cut a deal to testify against the sheriff. He was in third place. Thompson started as a deputy sheriff in Presidio County, which covers 3,856 square miles and shares more than 150 river miles with Mexico. She helped organize the largest-ever recorded rarajipari in ChihuahuaSilvino led one of the teamsand together they traveled to Brazil, in October 2015, for the inaugural World Indigenous Games. Find top Chambers County, TX Mergers & Acquisitions lawyers and attorneys. Just across the border were powerful drug lords such as Pablo Acosta, the boss of Ojinaga, who was killed in a shootout in Mexico in April 1987. Silvino followed the creek, skirting red-and-white fields of poppy. Silvino wore athletic gear and blue-and-yellow Asicsthe trails were too slippery, the roads too hard, for huaraches. During the day, they slept beneath frayed creosote bushes, concealing their bags nearby, and at night they trudged north toward the freeway, avoiding rattlesnakes, coyotes, and most of all, la migra, the Border Patrol. Soon after, his mother was arrested for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. With the Sinaloa in command, land theft and poppy growing increased. A pair of uncles on his moms side also went to prison for drug offenses, and so did a paternal uncle. Together with her father, an activist, musician, and poet known as Makawi, she pleaded for government officials in Chihuahua to help prevent drug traffickers from stealing their land and their water. In one week, he could make what usually took three months of labor in the Sierraand there was little work. He ate a sandwich and drank a bottle of Coca-Cola. There was also a lot of work leading up to that trial that required international relationships, he said. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the . Organizers across the world sought Tarahumara runners for their races, and those who moved comfortably among chabochi, or outsiders, began receiving regular invitations to race. Location Bellevue, WA, US Work Localization Editor @ The Pokmon Company International QA Localization Tester- Bilingual German and English @ 2k Vegas Quality Analyst @ Teleperformance see more Education He attended school in Alpine, Texas, where he later bought a ranch. As Silvino left the San Isidro Lodge, where he had stayed the night, he glanced over at six mangy dogs and cats sleeping next to the embers of a nearby campfire. 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