Month: January 2014

Yet another reason to be careful how you use your camera phone. A feature built into the phone attaches an exact geographic location to the pictures you take. While the intentions were pure there are ways to abuse the technology. “It is so easy to share digital technology,” said Jay J. Armes III, private investigator

Afternoon Nov. 21, 2013 Update: An El Paso jury found AnnaMarie Johnson guilty of injury to a child causing severe bodily injury. Johnson, 24, was charged with shaking and beating her 8-month-old baby so badly that the boy went blind. Previous Nov. 21, 2013 story: A jury is deliberating in the case of an El

Army Spc. Jeffrey Farrey, the father of 5-month-old Jackson Farrey, is on suicide watch at the El Paso County Jail, according to court documents. Jeffrey was extradited to El Paso from Michigan on Wednesday and charged with injury to a child by omission. His bond is set at $1.5 million. Thursday he was assigned a

9:57 a.m. Nov. 21, 2013 Update: Judge Luis Aguilar has assigned Artury Valtierra-Payan a new public defender after deciding the one he was assigned was unprepared. At a hearing Thursday morning, Valtierra’s public defender John Garcia was unprepared and kept interrupting Aguilar, trying to explain why he wasn’t ready. Garcia said he was just put

Reports of negligence involving Jeffrey and Jenna Farrey surfaced about a year ago from an East El Paso daycare, where they often left their 19-month-old son Blake. A worker there told ABC-7 that the director of the Little Monsters Learning Center shared concerns about Blake with Child Protective Services. He was 7 months old at

Two men were arrested in connection with the massacre of a family during the weekend in Juarez, and investigators say they did it over $115. The two maquiladora workers, 21-year-old Jess Daniel “El Tomate” Mendoza Hernndez and 31-year-old Edgar Uriel Lujn Guevara, were arrested Sunday. Authorities arrested. Investigators say two other men are sought in

An El Paso woman who was struck by an SUV during an argument Tuesday afternoon has died. Police said 18-year-old Alma Reaux was on the street arguing with someone inside the SUV when the driver took off, striking her. It happened just before 1 p.m. in front of her home in the 200 block of

A Las Cruces man who was beaten with a bat and later died was found wrapped in a roll of carpet Wednesday morning, police said. Police were called to the home of 37-year-old Jerome Saiz about 3 a.m. in the 2000 block of Princess Jeanne Drive in Las Cruces, and found him wrapped up in

Authorities are in Orogrande, N.M., have found what they believe are the possible remains of 5-month-old Jackson Farrey, the baby who was reported missing along with his family last week, a police spokesman said. ABC-7 has confirmed that Jackson’s father, 22-year-old Jeffrey Farrey, an Army specialist at Fort Bliss, has been charged with injury to

Private developers are calling the El Paso Housing Authority’s request for the city’s exclusive tax-credit support monopolistic. The Housing Authority is trying to raise private funds for public housing renovations. Tax-credit applications with City Council backing get a distinct edge when seeking state approval. That would be big for the agency, which has seen funding

Of the more than a million firefighters in the United States, approximately 70-percent of them are volunteers. ABC-7 has learned the number of volunteers is the lowest in a quarter century, leaving some Borderland departments hurting for firefighters. That’s affecting volunteer fire departments like the one in Horizon City, which covers an area stretching more

Many ABC-7 viewers are wondering why police haven’t identified or charged the wrong-way driver involved in a deadly car crash last week. It happened on the early hours of Nov. 14 on the eastbound lanes of Interstate-10 near the Zaragoza Road exit. The wrong-way driver was heading west when he crashed head-on into 29-year-old Gabriel

Authorities and red police tape surrounded the home of the Farrey family Tuesday afternoon in West El Paso. Police detectives, military personnel and other plain-clothed investigators closed off the street and searched the home on the 7300 block of Cerro Negro after the family had been reported missing but were found during the weekend in

A 9-year-old El Paso boy who received an artificial heart last month has died, his family said. Matthew “Gordo” Olivas Jr. was one of 30 children in the world to receive a mechanical heart fit for an adult. The operation took place at a Dallas hospital. Olivas was born with a congenital heart defect called

New Mexico State University and the city of Las Cruces announced a partnership to help promote the university’s athletic programs and get student-athletes involved in the community. As part of the partnership, events will be held in which the public will get a chance to meet student athletes. The public will also get discounts during

Construction crews closed Country Club Road between Love Road and Doniphan Drive in both directions Monday. Detours run along Love Road, Lindbergh Avenue and Memory Lane, as well as McNutt, Artcraft and Upper Valley roads. Workers closed the stretch after finding buried telephone lines while renovating Country Club Road. “This morning everything was a little

A family in Las Cruces is traumatized after someone set its cat on fire. The cat had to be put down. A month later, police are still searching for whoever is responsible. The worry is that every day the person or people are free, they will abuse another animal or even a child. “There is

A local internet provider said a citywide WIFI plan could be logistically challenging. “Some of the challenges of municipal WIFI is basically having a really dense footprint for WIFI so having lots of buildings, poles, street lamps; that kind of thing with wireless antennas on them,” said Mike Scott, President of Webatron. Webatron, a local

KRON-TV is reporting that former NFL / UTEP player Thomas Howard and another person were killed while Howard was driving about 100 mph in a BMW and collided with the back of a semi-truck early Monday morning. The report goes on to state that the BMW launched into the median and onto the other side

Nov. 18 Update: The missing West Side family was found at the Eagles Nest motel in Escanaba, Michigan, according to the Escanaba Department of Public Safety. El Paso Police Department contacted Public Safety requesting the assistance after learning the family may be in the Escanaba area. Officers responded as requested and did locate Jeffrey, Jenna,

Achim F. Schweighofer, a foreign exchange student at The University of Texas at El Paso, has died as a result of a traffic accident in the parking lot of Miner Village, according to UTEP officials. Miner Village is a student housing community on campus. At about 12:40 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, Schweighofer was walking

Nov. 18, 2013 Afternoon Update: El Paso Police have released the name of the man killed in an early morning crash on I-10 at Downtown. Police say that 25-year-old Constantine Coloduros, of the 7000 block of El Cajon, was driving on I-10 West at about 1:25 a.m. Monday when the vehicle crashed into a concrete

The El Paso Independent School District’s Board of Managers on Tuesday will discuss creating a transition plan for when elected school board members take over. Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams announced in early Dec. 2012 that he was appointing a five-member Board of Managers to take over EPISD. The Board of Managers was sworn in

UPDATE 11/18/13: El Paso Police confirmed they found the Farrey couple at the Eagles Nest Motel in Escanaba, Michigan 2:30 Sunday morning. Jeffrey, 22, and his wife Jenna, 20, are now being extradited back to El Paso. Their 19-month-old baby Blake is in Child Protective Custody. The 5-month-old baby Jackson is still missing. In court

One person is dead, another has life-threatening injuries after a crash in east El Paso. A police spokesman said two people were on a motorcycle when it crashed. A pickup truck was also involved in the crash. Police weren’t able to give details whether the driver of the truck sustained injuries. The wreck occurred around

UTEP will play New Mexico State University at 7 p.m. today in Las Cruces for the first of two games between the men’s teams this year. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster locations and at the NMSU box office. From UTEP Athletics: The Aggies tipped off the season with three games at the Outrigger Hotels and

Burges High School may be undergoing some big changes very soon.Administrators are submitting an application to the Texas Education Agency to transition to an early college high school. ABC-7 met exclusively with Burges principal Dr. Randall Woods Thursday afternoon to talk about the motivation behind the change. “What it would do is allow our students

City Rep. Eddie Holguin Jr. has filed paperwork for a possible run for El Paso County Judge. On Thursday, Nov. 14, he filed financial paperwork with the County naming his wife treasurer for his campaign to run for County Judge. ABC-7 attempted to reach Holguin by phone Friday morning but was not able to.Holguin has

Clint Independent School District’s plans to renovate East Montana Middle School has angered some parents. It’s not the renovations that have them upset, but what they’re for. The district has made plans to transfer alternative education students from portable classrooms sitting on the Horizon High campus to the middle school. According to Laura Cade, the

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, said Thursday that he’s not satisfied with President Obama’s promise to allow insurance companies to extend current health-care plans one more year under Obamacare. “I’m deeply disappointed in the implementation thus far of the Affordable Care Act,” said O’Rourke, who was not in Congress when the bill became law.