He and 19 accomplices were arrested in Penns Grove, New Jersey and taken to Wilmington, Delaware on August 30, 1895, for their involvement in a filibustering expedition to Cuba that violated U.S. neutrality laws.
[4] After the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, and the intervention of the U.S. Military Government in Cuba, the Liberation Army was disbanded, while the Spanish Civil Guard's exit fueled banditry.
García Menocal and Leonard Wood convened in Havana in December 1899 to form a 350-man rural guard from Cuban War of Independence veterans for law enforcement.
[12] That year in Santiago de Cuba, Pablo and his brother Fausto García Menocal had been captured and held hostage by the Liberal forces of Gen. Jose Gomez.
[13] He spent the summer with his family in New York in July 1919, and by September, the Cuban congressman boarded the steamer Mexico to head back to Cuba.