A federal judge in Del Rio has sentenced a general in the Partido Revolucionario Mexicano prison gang to 25 years in federal prison for drug trafficking. The sentence was announced Tuesday by federal prosecutors overseeing cases along the Texas border.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas announced the sentence in a post on X, writing that a “Federal Judge in Del Rio Sentences PRM General to 25 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking,” according to the U.S. Attorney WDTX
account. The office, based in San Antonio, is the official account of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas. The post tagged the hashtag #OperationTakeBackAmerica along with the DEA's San Antonio division and the FBI's San Antonio field office, but the office's post did not include the defendant's name, a case number, or further details about the underlying conduct.
Those specifics, including the drug involved, the dates of the alleged trafficking, and the judge who handed down the sentence, were not included in the announcement. It remains unclear how the case fits into the broader string of PRM prosecutions that federal prosecutors in Del Rio have pursued in recent years.
A Recurring Target for Federal Prosecutors in Del Rio
The PRM, a violent prison gang with ties to cross-border drug trafficking, has been the subject of repeated federal sentencing actions out of the Del Rio federal courthouse. In June 2025, seven members of the gang were sentenced in Del Rio to a combined 137 years in prison for their roles in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, according to a release from the Department of Justice posted on justice.gov.
Other cases tied to the gang have surfaced in the same courthouse over the past several years. An Eagle Pass man connected to the PRM was sentenced to 19.5 years in federal prison in October 2024 for his role in importing and possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, per a separate justice.gov release. That same year, Clinton Ritchie, a 34-year-old Eagle Pass man, was sentenced to 235 months in prison for distributing narcotics in Eagle Pass between March 2019 and June 2021, with Chief Judge Alia Moses handing down that sentence, according to the Justice Department.
Older Cases Show a Pattern of Lengthy Sentences
Further back, a Beaumont man named Kevin Ritchie was sentenced in Del Rio federal court to 420 months in prison, or 35 years, for conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, as reported by Borderland Beat in October 2023. Taken together, the cases point to a sustained federal effort targeting the gang's operations from inside Texas prisons and across the border region, though each case has involved different defendants, drugs, and circumstances.
For now, the identity of the PRM general sentenced this week, along with the specifics of the drug trafficking charges against him, has not been made public. Federal prosecutors have not released additional case documents or a statement beyond the brief social media announcement.
