Biography
Fred Lopez, identified as the Brown Berets’ minister of communication, was one of the East L.A. Thirteen arrested in the 1968 prosecution of organizers supporting the East Los Angeles school walkouts. Jennifer Correa’s 2006 thesis names him in its account of the arrests, pretrial jail custody and subsequent bail release. Exact individual admission and release days and total time confined are not established here.
Fred Lopez, identified as the Brown Berets’ minister of communication, was one of the East L.A. Thirteen arrested in the 1968 prosecution of organizers supporting the East Los Angeles school walkouts. Jennifer Correa’s 2006 thesis names him in its account of the arrests, pretrial jail custody and subsequent bail release. Exact individual admission and release days and total time confined are not established here.
The thesis explicitly reports that Gomez and Lopez turned themselves in after the first arrest raids. The charges concerned alleged conspiracy to disturb the peace and disrupt public schools, with failure-to-disperse and trespass allegations described in the group account. Potential penalties are not treated as sentences served. The source’s inconsistent chronology is not resolved by inventing exact dates, and no current confinement is implied.
