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Pedro Mario Monges

AKA: Pedro Monges; Pedro Chango Monges; Chango Monges; Chango Caribe
Era:1970s
State:New York
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Biography

Pedro Mario Monges, also known as Chango Caribe and Chango Monges, was associated with the Black Liberation Army in movement publications and the Margaret Walker Center’s archival description of his prison correspondence. He pleaded guilty to federal bank robbery and received an eighteen-year sentence. Brooklyn jail records and a 1974 civil-rights decision document extended custody and his challenge to restrictions in administrative segregation. He was recaptured after an attempted escape on May 25, 1975. His eventual release date and later custody status remain unverified.

Case

Charges: Federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a); February 9, 1973 Bronx bank robbery
Sentenced: 1973
Sentence: Eighteen years, as individually stated for Monges in footnote 2 of United States v. Estremera. A university archival catalog dates his imprisonment to 1973; city records place him in Brooklyn custody by September 24, 1973, and the state chronology documents confinement in 1974 and May 1975. In Wilson v. Beame (1974), he was a plaintiff challenging administrative-segregation restrictions while additional escape charges were pending. The eighteen-year penalty is not a verified time-served total. His release date and subsequent status have not been established.
Convicted: Guilty plea to Count 1 (bank robbery)