Biography
Gilbert Cruz Olmeda, identified as a Brown Beret officer, 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.
Gilbert Cruz Olmeda, identified as a Brown Beret officer, 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 names him among the thirteen arrested defendants, and its account of six people absent during the initial raids does not include him. No particular arrest night or release date is assigned. 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.
