Amid a spate of rumor and speculation, Cameron County Sheriff Department Chief Deputy has retired from the county force.
A call to the Sheriff's Department elicited a response from the department that Reyna had retired.
However, across the county, there have been a spate of rumors linking Reyna to a supposed cache of personal files left by the late attorney Ray Marchan with a trusted friend before he jumped off the Queen Isabella Causeway. Aside from Reyna, others in the county's law enforcement and judicial and legal community are named, according to that story.
Still others say that Reyna was picked up at home by FBI agents and is somehow linked to the recent resignation of a county constable.
None of this can be verified and our efforts to contact his boss, Sheriff Omar Lucio, went unanswered for most of the day. However, later in the day, the sheriff did call from a conference out of town and said that the rumors were unfounded and that Gus had been thinking about retiring for some time to take care of pressing personal matters and had been off the job since this Monday.
"It's only been three days since he left and we'll see what happens in two or three weeks," Lucio said. "People in the DPS and federal service do this all the time. Certainly if he applies we'll consider hiring him. He has been in county service for many years and knows the job. We'll see what he wants to do."
One of Reyna's close friend says the chief deputy has been under a financial strain because of legal fees that he has paid in legal defense fees for one of his sons legal problems and other debts that have accumulated.
"It has just got to be too much for him to handle on his salary," said the friend. "If he hadn't retired, he wouldn't have access to the money he has in his retirement account. He can always come back to work for the department on a contractual basis if Omar wants him to."
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