Special to El Rrun-Rrun
In what is becoming a dreaded chronicler's task, we are the bearers of bad news to those who considered Gus Reyna Jr. one of their friends.
Gus passed away today after suffering complications from a cardiac event. Our condolences to his family, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and fellow law men and women.
Gus was born in Brownsville, Texas. He and his wife Martha made their home in Brownsville and were the proud parents of two (2) boys; Gus III and Gerardo.
He graduated from James Pace High School, attended Texas Southmost College and the University of Texas at Brownsville. Gus started his law enforcement career in October of 1983 as Deputy Sheriff in the Patrol Division. He was later assigned Investigator under the Criminal Investigations department, a position he served until August of 1990. From August 1990 through May 1994 he served as Lieutenant with the Civil Process Division.
From May 1994 through April 1997, he advanced his professional abilities and continued his career by being assigned as Major/Jail Administrator of under the late Sheriff Omar Lucio in the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office.
Gus was born in Brownsville, Texas. He and his wife Martha made their home in Brownsville and were the proud parents of two (2) boys; Gus III and Gerardo.
He graduated from James Pace High School, attended Texas Southmost College and the University of Texas at Brownsville. Gus started his law enforcement career in October of 1983 as Deputy Sheriff in the Patrol Division. He was later assigned Investigator under the Criminal Investigations department, a position he served until August of 1990. From August 1990 through May 1994 he served as Lieutenant with the Civil Process Division.
From May 1994 through April 1997, he advanced his professional abilities and continued his career by being assigned as Major/Jail Administrator of under the late Sheriff Omar Lucio in the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office.
At the time, the position included the day-to-day supervision of 163 employees and a $5 million dollar jail budget. Being qualified and experienced, Gus was promoted by Lucio to Chief Deputy of the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office in February 1999.
His responsibilities included the duties of being the Public Relations Officer and Media Spokesman and also administering the day-to-day operation of 261 employees and a then-annual budget of $8.5 million plus contributing to the planning and development of the $20 million dollar Carrizales-Rucker detention facility and law enforcement administration building located at 7300 Old Alice Road in Olmito, Texas.
After leaving the sheriff's department, he and Lucio were hired as deputy constables by Pct. 2 Constable Abel Gomez.
May peace be with them and their families.
30 comments:
Thank you for your service to Cameron County RIP
Great family I bought several chevys at the downtown dealership from Mr. Reyna his dad.
RIP. my condolences
gracias Juanito for the info.
I worked briefly with Officer Reyna a long long time ago and found him to be the ultimate professional. RIP my friend.
Real Chief, not the dumbass we have right now, who is about to promote Angel the sex-offender.
It's "a dreaded chronicler's task" only cause you let it.
No one is forcing it on you.
fact.
(Everybody dies. No surprise.)
No one, no chuco or cop, gets out of here alive.
Live it, for it is short.
Los vicios acaban
Todo duele.
Tarde o temprano, todo duele.
RIP sir, thank you for your long service to Cameron County.
Condolences to the Reyna family.
It was good working with Chief Reyna . He was a pretty cool guy to us when I was in SIU … He always backed us up and let us work in peace… RIP Chief….
Nothing compared to the crap of the Sheriffs office there is today ..
Good Man. For the People. Professional, and would always exact justice for the common man.
Thank You For Your Service Mr. Gus Reyna. May God Bless You.
"He on whose heart the dust of Mexico has lain will find no peace in any other land..." - Malcolm Lowry
"complications of a cardiac event"
sounds like he had a heart attack. Just say it, Montoya. your parsing of words is annoying. Gus Reyna died of a heart attack.
simple, see.
Omar Lucio is still dead.
When the dept was in the hands of real law-mans not stupid corrupted clerks
Descanse en paz, bendiciones a su familia
A very respected man and an awesome Lawman!! Learned alot from this man !! He was a man of Honor!! He did so much for the community and people!! My condolences to his family!! They dont build them like this anymore!! Rest in Peace you will be missed so very much!! Thank you for your Service!!🫡
And who do we have now? Guy who has no fucking idea where to direct the office.. taking advices from Gilbert, Angel and Cruz go figure this non-sense.
November 15, 2022 at 7:40 AM
Your comments are more annoying its his blog not yours pendejo!
November 15, 2022 at 6:59 AM
Good quote. Write more quotes when you have free time.
Thank you.
Real lawman? As a former deputy,I beg to differ.Cameron County citizens know who the Reyna Brothers are really like. Don't idolize a human being that has passed and made a tremendous amount of mistakes which lead too many ex-employees and current ones despise them. Unless ofcourse you contributed in campaigns.
Let the man rest in peace. Stop the bullshit.
Let us work in peace? Too many lies here.
And now we are stuck with muffin top Cisneros. As our Chief he can’t get us new units, yet he has his new expedition. He can’t get us more Deputies on the field, yet his friends Hector, Angel and Gilbert are at the office all day hanging out inside of the admin hall with their feet up on the desk. He choose Mendieta as the head of the jail yet he doesn’t have an active jailer license. And now Silver is on the verge of promoting Angel and Servando yet says “our relationship out of work has nothing to do with work”. Gus being a drunk and asshole still makes him a better Chief than Silver, which should tell you everything you need to know about how pathetic this administration is.
I worked under Gus. Great man . Would always look out for you. He would have been a much better sheriff than the Idiot and Pigs we have now. Rest in peace. And thanks for being there for me.
Le gustava tomar al viejo. Y siempre estaba en 🌶️ tomando
Puro vato lloron y panochon aqui. Si no les gusta su jale pos rumbenle ALV.
Carrizales drama
Starting with Victor Vela
@ November 18, 2022 at 2:14
Igual que una pinche vieja abriendo la mamadora.. No andes de panochon
A lot of people are sighing with relief right now! A lot of corrupted secrets went with Reyna!
Rumor is that the democRAT party in CC wants that suspected crook, Abel Gomez to run for Sheriff? That' all we need, another potential future indictment like Conrado Cantu? Ronnie Saenz, has no business running! Is there another in the wings that the democRATic party has in mind?
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