This weekend marks two bloody anniversaries associated with San Antonio drug lord Fred Gómez Carrasco — a shootout at a South Side motel and the longest prison siege in U.S. history.
EXPRESS-NEWS FILE PHOTOIt has been 49 years since a bloody shootout at a South Side motel led to his imprisonment at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. Almost a year later, Carrasco led a desperate bid for freedom out of the prison.
Prison guards at the Huntsville State Prison in Texas assemble outside the prison July 24, 1974. Inside the facility, Fred Carrasco and other inmates were holding hostages in a bid to gain their freedom. Carrasco was killed in the hail of gunfire, which ended the siege.in the 1970s. He built a drug empire that stretched from Nuevo Laredo across the border into San Antonio’s West Side. He was perceived by some as a"Chicano Robin Hood" and was celebrated in regional Spanish songs.
In jail, Carrasco was treated like royalty. According to newspaper accounts, he liked to dress in a silk robe and wore fleece-lined slippers. A Thanksgiving Day banquet for his family and attorneys was rumored to have been held in his private cell. A lawyer leaves the prision after a phone conversation with Federico"Fred" Gomez Carrasco while guards bring in more guns during a hostage crisis at the Huntsville Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas.On July 24, 1974, almost a year after the Tejas Motel incident, Carrasco, Dominguez and Cuevas took hostages in a classroom of the prison library.
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