Arizona family fears detained father won’t survive without medical care

Arizona family fears detained father won’t survive without medical care

An Arizona family is pleading for medical care for their patriarch, Guillermo Gallardo Barrera, who has spent the past year detained at the Florence Correctional Center in declining health, according to his family. Barrera, known to his family as Memo, is a longtime Arizona resident, father, and construction worker. In August 2025, he was detained in Gilbert following a traffic stop by Gilbert police “without cause,” the family wrote in a GoFund…