Former sheriff escapes prison time
By Gregg Romero Wendorf
Hard to say why the name of Former Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño always brings to mind, at least for me, the late, great Warren Zevon’s song: “Lawyers, Guns, and Money.” Perhaps it’s the lyric that stands out: “Send lawyers, guns, and money, Dad, get me out of this.”
It is, after all, hard to think of Lupe Treviño without thinking of his son, Jonathan Treviño, who also ended up in the same place as his father: the federal pen. When Jonathan Trevino’s troubles with the law were first made public in December 2012, his dad’s ties to a drug dealer were still a secret, so the elder Treviño had the lawyers, guns, and the money, but he couldn’t quite get his son “out of this.”
Now that Lupe Treviño has been released from the federal pen approximately six months before his 60-month sentence for conspiracy to commit money laundering was scheduled to end, the whole dirty-cops scandal comes to mind for those of us who lived through it. Treviño still has to serve the remaining six months of his
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