Prior to his film career, Trejo worked as a labor foreman for developer Saul Pick, and contributed toward the construction of the Cinerama Dome. In July 1969, Trejo was released from custody for the final time and returned to Pacoima, Los Angeles, after having served five years of a 10-year prison sentence.
It was also while incarcerated that he achieved his high-school diploma. In solitary, Trejo found faith and became a member of a 12-step program, having first attended one "by accident" aged 15, and successfully overcame his drug addictions recalling in 2011 that he had been sober for the previous 42 years. Trejo ended up in solitary confinement and facing capital charges, potentially the death penalty, after hitting a guard with a rock. In 1968, a prison riot broke out during Cinco De Mayo at Soledad. Regarding himself, Trejo has suggested his physical appearance contributed to his constantly getting into trouble. Simultaneously, he focused on boxing and became a champion in San Quentin's lightweight and welterweight divisions. Furthermore, he was a debt collector and drug dealer, often participating in or witnessing acts of serious violence, including murder. Trejo arrived at San Quentin State Prison in 1966, and his heroin use was exacerbated shortly thereafter. While doing a stint in Los Angeles County jail in 1961, he met Charles Manson, who he described as a "dirty, greasy, scrawny, white boy" who was allegedly a talented hypnotist.
The accounts of his prison chronology, though, are notably conflicting by one account, his final term in custody is said to have ended in 1972, but in reality, Trejo did time in various juvenile offenders' camps, including three years at Camp Glenn Rockey, San Dimas for maiming a sailor (stabbing him in the face with broken glass), followed by numerous California prisons between 19 "I was in San Quentin, Folsom, Soledad, Vacaville, Susanville, Sierra". Throughout the 1960s, Trejo's life consisted predominantly of intermittent jail stints in the California prison system.
He was first arrested at the age of 10, but experienced his first incarceration at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in 1956. Life of crime and incarceration Īged seven, Trejo participated in his first drug deal. Years later, he purchased his childhood home and often lived in it. When he was 13, he moved to the diverse neighborhood of Pacoima, Los Angeles, and recalls never experiencing racism while growing up. Trejo's uncle Gilbert introduced him to all three and was responsible for Trejo overdosing on his first heroin fix. Trejo was using marijuana, heroin, and cocaine by ages 8, 12. His stepmother was Alice Mendias, "his only source of comfort" when he lived with his father. By 1949, Trejo shared a room with his cousins at their grandmother's house. After a year, they returned to Los Angeles and Trejo's father turned himself in.
Shortly after his birth, Trejo and his family briefly lived in San Antonio, Texas they fled Los Angeles because Dionisio was wanted by police for stabbing another man. He had a maternal half-sister, Dyhan, but saw neither her nor Delores from the age of three and a half until 1965 his father banned his mother from seeing him after Trejo sprained his arm in her care. His parents met at a dance hall in Highland Park, Los Angeles in 1943. Trejo was the result of an extramarital affair Delores's husband was away fighting in World War II. He is the son of Delores Rivera King and Dionisio "Dan" Trejo (1922–1981), a construction worker. Trejo was born on May 16, 1944, on Temple Street in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, to Mexican-American parents.
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