In these rugged gorges, they developed a unique running style that eventually brought them fame. Hed run rarajipari as a boy, and, per Tarahumara tradition, gambled on the race from an early age, winning soap, pens, and sometimes even a chicken. Chambers, who cooperated with the DEA, got life also but was released after serving 18 years. A landmark in Marfa, the old Presidio County Courthouse housed Rick Thompsons tax assessors office. Silvino followed the creek, skirting red-and-white fields of poppy. He attributed part of the Tarahumaras success to their minimal footwear; they ran with a lightness unfamiliar to American runners, landing on the midpoint of their foot instead of the heel. A pair of feral dogs dozed near Silvinos feet. People who think that are mentally unstable. At 7:48, Silvino spotted the worn arrow that directed runners to take the footpath to the scenic overlook called El Mirador del Cerro del Gallego. The next 21 miles were unpaved. The actual number was likely much higher. Later came the even more formidable Amado Carrillo Fuentes, leader of the Jurez cartel. The female racers wore their everyday clothes: skirts full of reds, yellows, pinks, and blues, and matching head scarves to block the sun. No one, even back then, would have trusted someone with that quantity of drugs, unless they had a reliable track record. There were hairpin turns where the drop-off was thousands of feet, and he passed several roadside memorials. The Border Patrol had found them. Robert Chambers. His mother had been a running champion in her day, and one of her sisters was the mother of Arnulfo, his greatest competitor. Of course, drug traffickers also know this. He claimed $1.5 million in narcotics seized when in fact $5,000 was seized. Hed hoped that once there he could stay a short time and workin the Permian Basin oil fields, perhapsand then return home with money for his wife and two sons. Chambers remembers his grandfather watching the Weather Channel regularly, hoping for rain. Then again, he spent much of his life severed from them. He is preceded in death by his parents, Ralph E. and Lois C. Chambers also of Winter Haven. (Robert Chambers was released in 2005 after serving 13 years. From there, the runners followed white arrows spray-painted on the ground into a forest of pion pine, juniper, and small oak trees. He didnt believe in spells, but Silvino felt the pressure of what hed come to donot just for his own survival but for the survival of his people. Spectators wagered clothes, goats, or money on the outcome and lit the way at night with pine-resin torches. Three paper bracelets from the race still hung around his left wrist. When I visited Chambers at his office in January, his desk was makeshift: two long folding tables down the hall from a few other lawyers in a one-story brick building on the main street. They said the sheriff of that county was La Puerta, (the door), that he controls everything, he noted. He just didnt like coming here, and I could see why. He had to have demonstrated loyalty to the people who were moving this type of narcotics, Barajas said. All I know is I worked for five months for him. In 2003, Robert Chambers walked out of prison, after 15 years, a free man, still pursued by his own infamy. He ate a sandwich and drank a bottle of Coca-Cola. Eagle Realty Group & Associate, (573) 336-0003. He did not respond to a letter sent to him in prison requesting an interview. Chambers had been selling drugs out of his girlfriend Shawn Kovell's Manhattan apartment. That same summer, Silvino landed a job as a manager for a chia cultivation project for 400 pesos (about $20) a day. He and his cousins would be paid 15,000 pesos ($825) apiece. Two days later, he reached Ascensin, close to where theyd picked up the drugs. She worried about Tarahumara children losing their running traditions, so she regularly put on races in the region, including all-female events called ariweta. Best described as a muckraking journalist, McNamara launched a scrappy newspaper, The Nimby News, in Alpine to cover stories often left out of the local newspaper, and later wrote a column for the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa. 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. I caught a load of pot the other day. AKA: Robert C Chambers, Claude Chambers, Bob Chambers Work: - Electrical Contractor, Amarillo Construction LLC - Chief Executive Officer College: TEXAS STATE TECH COLLEGE WEST TEXAS High School: TASCOSA HIGH SCHOOL View Reputation Profile Robert Wayne Chambers , 59 Lives in Leander, TX AKA: Robert W Chambers ), he added. Even still, looking at the slight, dark-haired, shackled Vega, his anger bubbled up. Someone said it was like seeing the Marlboro Man go up in flames, he said. After drug traffickers had taken over the ejido in Basihuare, Makawi had given an interview to a newspaper in Chihuahua, describing the situation and the growing recruitment of Tarahumara youth into organized crime. Robert Chambers grew up on the border in south Presidio County, where his mother taught in a small school in Candelaria. In late 1965, he enlisted in the Marines, serving in Vietnam as a radio man and military policeman. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Robert Stanley Chambers (Seagoville, Texas), who passed away on February 4, 2022, at the age of 69, leaving to mourn family and friends. In his book on his travels through the Sierra Madre mountains, Unknown Mexico, he recounts that when the Jesuits first arrived and asked the Tarahumara about the canyons depth, they replied, Only the birds know., For centuries the Tarahumara got by as subsistence farmers. Escuder had recently defended a Tarahumara man in his fifties who, they realized, had been in Vegas brickmaking crew. 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. His father was a videocassette distributor and his mother worked as a private nurse, once treating a young John F. Kennedy Jr. for bronchitis and arranging a play date for him and Robert. There, it also became common to see Tarahumara children begging or selling candy and key chains on the streets. At that time Manny told us this guy is involved in the drug business but we didnt believe it, he said. Strapped to his back were two homespun burlap packs, one filled with 45 pounds of marijuana bricks and the other with enough burritos and gallon jugs of water to survive another week in the wilderness. With the Sinaloa in command, land theft and poppy growing increased. Robert Leroy Chambers Obituary It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Robert Leroy Chambers of Victoria, Texas, who passed away on June 21, 2022, at the age of 66, leaving to mourn family and friends. But I had my suspicions. Light-footed. It turned out to be people burning salt cedar, an invasive species that saps water from the earth. He recalled his 62-mile ultramarathon victory in Costa Rica, where hed felt he might collapse. In the days leading up to the 2015 Ultra Caballo Blanco, an eight-hour battle erupted in a village along the planned racecourse. None of his companions had made it out. Thompson and former County Judge Bobby Martinez shake hands. Stinson was the lead investigator for the Drug Enforcement Agency in the bust. Robert Chambers in Texas 442 people named Robert Chambers found in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria and 20 other cities. That ended abruptly with his guilty plea Feb. 11, 1992, forcing them to accept that their Walking Tall law officer was a drug smuggler. People say that because I worked for Rick Thompson, I was dirty. Chambers remembers law enforcement coming to his house after his father had been arrested, though he was too young to comprehend the reason. Mahallah Escoe seeking her brother Robert Cofield Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 14, 1884. He also was the first to question the close relationship Chambers had with Thompson. Still, he got paid only if he successfully completed his mission. 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. At approximately 1:15 a.m., Agent Fort observed a green Chevrolet Suburban driving east on the Fairgrounds Road with the lights off, DEA Agent Dale Stinson testified at a later court hearing. He had run one hundred miles. It may have been thirty. I got involved in politics and in 1976 we had a candidate for sheriff, Manny Rodriguez, a city policeman.. I thought I knew him extremely well. He accompanied her to court as an intern. A reception will be held in her honor at St. Mark's United Methodist Church, Baytown, Texas from 4-6 pm on Saturday, January 21. far west texas when austin-based journalist rob d'amico started calling west texans in 2017, asking what they knew about robert chambers, rick thompson and the 1991 billion dollar bust of a cocaine-filled horse trailer in presidio county, many "quite frankly said, 'this is done, you don't need to dredge it up,'" d'amico said in an interview In 1986, Chambers led a raid on the municipal jail in Ojinaga, kidnapped an inmate wanted in the United States for rape, brought him back to Texas and chained him naked to a tree for authorities to find, according to popular lore. 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. Multinational corporations seized the merchandising opportunities, and soon, people all over the world were wearing barefoot-style shoes. 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. He wore two hats, as the sheriff and tax assessor. Silvino wore athletic gear and blue-and-yellow Asicsthe trails were too slippery, the roads too hard, for huaraches. He found a friend to front him enough to get to Janos, the first town on his route back. He moved swiftly. Even for a strong farmer like Silvino, who used oxen to plough his fields in Huisuchi, cultivating chia in Urique proved biblical in its afflictions. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the . Silvino remembered the women in Huisuchi who used to weave baskets out of the pine needles. 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. With Vegas case resolved, Chambers moved on. He quickly worked his way up to a key operator in smuggling drugs into the U.S. and after Acostas death, he even held the title of The Plaza (the kingpin who controlled all drug movement through Ojinaga)a strange position for an American. Candelaria was well on its way to becoming a ghost town. But by the time he arrived, what he found was troubling: because of years of drought, famine, and encroaching cartel violence, in some areas the tribes running traditions were almost entirely dormant. After successes in Costa Rica and Spain, he landed on the cover of Runners World Mxico, in December 2014. Now serving his sixth term as Presidio County sheriff, Danny Dominguez, 55, is one of the few in town who had a direct tie to Thompson. For Silvino, new opportunities eventually arose from the attention generated by the book. Offender is currently in the Parole Review Process The parole review process begins approximately six months before the parole eligibility date for a first review and four months before the eligibility date in additional reviews. 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. 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. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents left him in Jurez without enough money for a bus ticket home. The Tarahumara would know how to survive this. TX 78721-1510 is the last known address for Robert. For finishing third, Silvino earned 8,000 pesos, enough to remain free of the cartels, at least for a while longer. Sunlight broke through the slim canopy. According to McNamara, Thompson mismanaged task force funds, illegally destroyed its records and grossly exaggerated its accomplishments. Rogers pulled off on Farm-to-Market Road 2810, better known as Pinto Canyon Road, where the asphalt ended. At his sentencing hearing May 10, Thompson apologized and his wife made a final plea for leniency. Federal agents and others had learned that his nickname in Mexico was La Puerta, the door to smuggling. The South Bank Show returns to Sky Artsthis November with a sensational line-up of exclusive interviews, showcasing six brilliant women from across the arts: comedian Tracey Ullman, soul singer Beverley Knight, opera star Danielle de Niese, theatre producer Sonia Friedman, publishing powerhouse Gail Rebuck and a special show highlighting the importance of the arts in education . He was just a phenomenally likeable guy, former District Attorney Richard Barajas said. Ten minutes after six, the runners approached the starting line, adjacent to the, three-hundred-year-old red-earthen, yellow-domed Jesuit church, and took off. According to the Mexico Citybased magazine Proceso, at least five indigenous activists were assassinated in 2015 and 2016. To meet the surging demand for heroin in the United States, they also began seizing additional farmland in order to increase poppy cultivation. They both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life in prison. 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.) The squat white, Thirty minutes later, the second finisher arrived, and Silvino three minutes after him. Chambers grew up on the border. He was doing this stuff and they never knew. The case status is Disposed - Dismissed. The reasons for this were, in some ways, fated. The only difference is that cops carry badges, he said. Robert Chambers is a resident of Austin. When he returned with seven new competitors in 1994, they dominated the race again. Barajas, who counted Thompson as a friend, worked closely with him on the notorious Rio Grande sniper case, in which a teenager, shooting from a canyon rim on the Mexican side, killed a tourist rafter and wounded a guide in 1988. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, Former Presidio County Sheriff Rick Thompson. Witnessed: Borderlands is a new true-crime podcast from journalist Rob D'Amico, set during the peak of the War On Drugs. 6, Border Patrol agents found him and five others sleeping in the brush west of Marfa. Thomas Chambers. Ponton, a defense attorney, was hired by Chambers for a weapons charge and suddenly found himself defending a man busted with a ton of cocaine. Years earlier, while serving as an attach in Mexico City, Stinson had heard Mexican federal police mention Thompson in connection with the Ojinaga drug trade. Of course, drug traffickers also know this. Unlike many of his classmates, he didnt have to wait long for work. He grew up believing hed never see him again outside of prison. In one week, he could make what usually took three months of labor in the Sierraand there was little work. Hed expected to see one person on trial. According to the DEA, Thompson had also moved the ton of drugs from the border to Marfa in his green Suburban. Don Robert Hendrix, loving husband, caring father, loyal friend, devoted educator, world traveler, Houston sports fan, and music lover passed away in peace at his home on April 28, 2021. Rick Thompson had charm. 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. Jackson was a regular, and he later devoted most of a chapter in his book One Ranger to a tortured examination of their relationship. In the distance, Rogers noticed a cloud of black smoke rising downriver. Tall and lithe, his skin browned from years of laboring under the desert sun, he strode through the darkness. There are people who kill or rape who serve less time, he noted. His first time, in 2005, he did just that, tossing his, After his release, it took Silvino two months to get home. 1992 Press Photo Mayor and council members in City Hall chambers, Texas . Tell Rick Thompson Im still investigating this. FCS Financial will contact you about financing this property. PECOS, Texas (AP) _ A former county sheriff and a rancher were sentenced to life in prison Friday for supervising a midnight haul of cocaine worth $48 million last December. A fine salary, but it was an experimental crop: a 64-year-old American named Mickey Mahaffey, who had lived among the Tarahumara for two decades and married Silvinos younger sister, Carmen, struck up a deal to grow eight acres for an energy-bar company based in Richmond, Virginia. That year, many had shown up to the event starving, walking or hitchhiking from hundreds of miles around, bringing only the clothes on their backs. Hed hoped that once there he could stay a short time and workin the Permian Basin oil fields, perhapsand then return home with money for his. It was still dark when Silvino woke two hours before the big race in Cerocahui last October. Two weeks earlier, sicarios, or hit men, had stopped in Rejogochi to ask for Chvez, the young activist, and her father, Makawi. It was a half hour after midnight and Silvino Cubesare Quimare was approaching the ghost town of Separ, in southwest New Mexico. His wife, Hilda, begged him not to go, but he felt he had no choice. He called his colleague and friend Jaime Escuder, who had also been assigned a defendant in the case. The nickname some people gave him here was Walking Tall, Rivera recalled. In late 1991, when Chambers was four, his father was arrested in the largest drug bust on record in West Texas. This was the most common drug crossing in her cases, she said. He had to run. But besides stamina, rarajipari demanded selflessness and strategy. It was around the twelve-mile mark. Find Robert Chambers in Midland, TX - phone, address, email. Had he been arrested the second time in New Mexico, she said, he would have faced a mandatory five years in prison. Organizers across the world sought Tarahumara runners for their races, and. Finally, after a few hours, Vega asked the translator if she could speak more slowly. 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. Nobody was warming up when he arrived; the Tarahumara dont stretch. Puro Tarahumara de ahora en adelante. Thats whats hard to understand, he added. He would share his produce with family, friends, and neighbors, a true labor of love. He was 36, but people still remembered him from the summer of 1986 when he was 19. Contacted recently at his home in Oregon, McNamara, 80, said he still is trying to get to the bottom of it all. But help never came, and speaking out became risky. Silvino wore athletic gear and blue-and-yellow Asicsthe trails were too slippery, the roads too hard, for huaraches. The explorer Lumholtz had surveyed Urique from up here more than a century ago. Then, with the path hugging a creek, he entered tiny Porochi. We drove west to Marfa before hooking southwest through the Chinati Mountains. And over his four terms in office, Thompson had led a regional drug task force, filmed anti-drug television spots for U.S. Customs and was the president of the Sheriffs Association of Texas. Case Details Parties Dockets Case Details Case Number: Hell walk straight. It was big news, from the Big Bend Sentinel (The Marfa Coke Bust, it blared) all the way to the New York Times. After razing the corn and bean fields, they planted poppies instead. He considered skipping the race, which was 37 miles, but the next event was four months away. After going to law school, in northwest Indiana, he thought hed never return to West Texas, but it was Liz Rogers who persuaded him to come back. 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. PECOS, Texas (AP) _ A former county sheriff and a rancher were sentenced to life in prison Friday for supervising a midnight haul of cocaine worth $48 million last December. $10.00 + $4.99 shipping . By early spring their corn was burned on the stalk. . PeopleFinders is the best people search for contact info and public records. The address PO Box 134 Hardin, Texas 77561 Thank you for reading! Sunlight broke through the slim canopy. He was arrested and sentenced to eight months. Traditionally they ran as a form of religious ritual, such as to celebrate the harvest, in two-team races called rarajipari. And we posted it on Facebook. International runners and film crews descended on the Sierra Tarahumara. In one week, he could make what usually took three months of labor in the Sierraand there was little work. 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. When they arrived at the orchard, there were no pecans. Up ahead, they saw the lights of a highway and knew they were within a dozen miles of their drop-off. In a bizarre news conference held just days later, Thompson admitted the ton of cocaine was his, but he claimed it was part of a one-man reverse sting. If I dont take the risk during a race, then I dont get any reward.. Any other way, Chambers learned, and the courthouse would be backed up for years. There was also a lot of work leading up to that trial that required international relationships, he said. The Border Patrol had found them. I think its worth it. They were more optimistic souls in a long line of people who have tried, often futilely, to farm the floodplain. The female racers wore their everyday clothes: skirts full of reds, yellows, pinks, and blues, and matching head scarves to block the sun. A few months later, Sinaloa won control of the areanearly a dozen planes flew out of the town of Urique in one day with the remaining Jurez fightersbut conditions worsened. Buchmeyer gave him the max: Two life terms without a chance of parole. 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 And so when Micah True hosted the second Caballo Blanco, Silvino couldnt make the race; he was sitting in a New Mexico prison. 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. Listing provided by BURMLS $549,000 3 bds 2 ba 2,305 sqft - House for sale 9 hours ago Loading. Thank you for reading! Their huts clung to the granite slopes and crevices of the canyons, which are connected by a vast system of narrow footpaths. The six-foot-two Chambers towered over him by more than a foot. Fisher struck deals with sponsors; he paid his runners with bags of corn and beans. Tax lawyers can assist with understanding tax law and resolve tax liens, back taxes, tax debt recovery and relief, and IRS compliance issues. Robert Chambers - Football Official - Texas Association of Sports Officials | LinkedIn Robert Chambers Environmental Engineer at Austin White Lime Company Austin, Texas, United States 735. In the years ahead, she cycled in and out of prison for similar charges. He explained that Spanish was his second language. The former girlfriend of Preppy Killer Robert Chambers is breaking her silence about their relationship as a docuseries airing on Sundance and AMC takes a new look at the infamous murder. When I stopped by his office one afternoon to see if he would visit Candelaria with me, he declined. Then the judge asked Vega if he had anything to add. He didnt believe in spells, but Silvino felt the pressure of what hed come to donot just for his own survival but for the survival of his people. When Chambers arrived at the detention facility, the 39-year-old Vega stood up to greet his lawyer. His late paternal grandfather, Boyd, was a rancher on the Sierra Vieja, a small mountain range that locals call the Candelaria Rimrock, after the nearest town. Some Tarahumara activists tried to make their plight known, like Irma Chvez Cruz, a 25-year-old mother who was a friend of Silvinos. 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. Its untamable, though his family certainly tried. He hadnt eaten anything, not even the pocket-size bean burritos and salsa he normally ran with. He crossed abandoned desert valleys on old Apache land with nothing to eat, drinking only dung-infested runoff water. Search our database of over 100 million company and executive profiles. Silvino couldnt compete in the U.S. because of his arrest record, but he still needed to race to remain financially free of the cartels, so he often stuck to races closer to home, like the upcoming ultramarathon in Cerocahui, which included a four-thousand-foot ascent up a road out of Urique. The end came quickly for Thompson: On Jan. 9, 1992, he was indicted on four federal drug offenses, and was suspended as sheriff. Listing provided by TMLS Thompson is being released this month after serving 26 years in prison for cocaine smuggling. Tarahumara is a Spanish corruption of the tribes name, Rarmuri, meaning ones with light feet or foot runners.. In that era, there were many unsupervised border crossings and the Border Patrol was understaffed. The wide, grassy highlands behind us appeared lush compared with the volcanic landscape ahead: canyons and mesas, haystack buttes and dry arroyos, a psychedelic moonscape with no end in sight, where the only color came from the sky. He did. Rogers pointed to the barely visible Rio Grande just under a mile beyond, and San Antonio del Bravo farther still. And he was making a pittance compared to Robert and ACF (Amado Carillo Fuentes. 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. 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. He laughed at the memory of a rarajipari when an opposing team cast a spell on his team. That summer, he saw around four hundred cases come through the Alpine office, and within a few years its annual caseload had more than doubled. He read about races that went on for several days and about the ultramarathon that now brought the best long-distance runners to the Sierra Madre. Silvino, with his farmland afflicted by unrelenting drought, was one of the desperate ones, so he signed on to tote drugs. The tribes runners had never ventured far from home and remained largely unknown until 1993, when an opportunistic American photographer named Rick Fisher brought several members, including a 55-year-old grandfather and a 40-something goat farmer, to an old Colorado mining town called Leadville to enter its 100-mile ultramarathon. He and his cousins would be paid 15,000 pesos ($825) apiece. 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. Chambers had seen many of these harsh sentences handed out, including to drug runners who were essentially forced into smuggling. Thompson was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole, but a change in sentencing guidelines led to his eventual release in April of 2018. Silvino flung his bags into the sand and began to run. Advertisements . 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