Month: June 2018

Las Cruces police arrested a man suspected of exposing himself in front of a teenage girl early Sunday morning. Carlos Marcado, 31, who resides on west Gallagher Avenue, is charged with a single count of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. Investigators learned that during the early-morning hours of Sunday, June 10, 2018, Gallagher

A former Las Cruces neurologist who sexually abused his patients will have to wait before learning what his punishment will be. In January 2018, Dr. Robert Woody, 65, was convicted of sexually abusing several patients. Woody was originally scheduled to be sentenced on June 9, 2018. No date has been set for the rescheduled sentencing.

Police say a boy and his teenaged brother held the man suspected of burglariding their mother’s vehicle until police officers arrived. Investigators learned the owner of the Toyota FJ Cruiser was inside her home Saturday evening when her 7-year-old son noticed a man going through her vehicle. The boy alerted his 17-year-old brother, and both

Immigration judges generally cannot consider domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in a ruling that could affect large numbers of Central Americans who have increasingly turned to the United States for protection. “Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-government

Police are asking the public for help identifying an alleged burglar blamed for three burglaries. The robberies occurred at the same Circle K Store, located at 7100 N. Loop at different times: Wednesday May 23 at 2:30 A.M., Tuesday June 5 at 11:45 P.M., and Sunday June 10 at 1:08 A.M. In all three cases,

Heavy Metal band Ghost is scheduled to perform at the Abraham Chavez Theater in El Paso on November 9, 2018, according to the band’s website. The Swedish band is currently touring in support of its latest album “Prequelle,” which debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart this week. Tickets will go on sale

A judge in Atlanta on Monday sentenced a former Texas high school football player who rose through a bloody power struggle for control of a Mexican drug cartel to serve nearly 50 years in federal prison. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known as “La Barbie” for his light eyes and complexion, also was ordered to forfeit

I-10 East has been reopened near Clint after a crash involving several vehicles tied up traffic for hours in Far East El Paso County. ABC-7 crews saw at least two 18-wheelers involved in the crash. One of them was hauling soda and water bottles. The other semi was reduced to mangled metal and had to

“The Incredibles” writer/director Brad Bird has said that his characters’ powers are all born of stereotypes. Dad is strong, mom is stretched in a million directions, teenage girls put up shields, little boys are full of boundless energy and babies are unpredictable. It’s why he decided that for the sequel, “Incredibles 2 ,” a buoyant

Lamanta Reese lived much of his gang life in virtual reality, posting videos on YouTube of him and others taunting rivals. He died at age 19 in the real world, bleeding from his head onto a porch on Chicago’s South Side after one of those gang rivals, prosecutors say, shot him 11 times. Another possible

CHICAGO (AP) – Some highlights from newly updated law enforcement gang intelligence and block-by-block turf maps provided exclusively to The Associated Press in advance of their release Tuesday by the Chicago Crime Commission in a Gang Book. That last Gang Book, which is used as a guide for regional police, was published in 2012. NUMBERS

Two young children and their 90-year-old grandmother are dead after a house fire north of Houston. Authorities in Conroe say the blaze was reported at 2:30 a.m. Saturday in a house where a mother, father, their four young children and the family’s grandmother were trapped inside. The parents escaped and firefighters and neighbors helped a

There is a crash on I-10 West and Yarbrough that is blocking the left lane of traffic. Take Montana, Gateway West, North Loop or Alameda to avoid this area.

At only two years old, Mia Ojeda has been battling stage four Neuroblastoma for half her young life. “Mia’s proving doctors wrong,” said her mother, Suracy Gonzalez. Two weeks ago, the toddler’s mother told ABC-7 she only had days to live. However, Gonzalez said her two-year-old continues to fight. “My daughter is terminal, but yet,

The monsoon season is just around the corner! June, July, and August the climate in the borderland changes dramatically from very dry, too humid, muggy and rainy. Torrential rain, thunderstorms, microburst and extreme heat play a major role in severe weather events. Monsoon-fed scattered showers and thunderstorms; during severe weather outbreaks cause conditions to change

A new, free smartphone application aims to make Texas schools safer. The iWatchTexas app was launched by Texas Department of Public Safety at the direction of Governor Greg Abbott in the weeks following the shooting at Santa Fe High School where 10 people were killed. The goal of the app is to make it easier

City Council approved a TIRZ, or a tax incentive reinvestiment zone in Northwest El Paso.Tonight on ABC-7 XTRA we discuss why homeowners in the area are opposed to the new development. Officials say the TIRZ would help the city pay for waste water and drainage improvements. The city’s plan could lead to the development of

Twenty thousand people from as far away as Hong Kong have traveled to see the statue of the Virgin Mary reportedly crying at a Hobbs church, parishioners say. “We’ve been swamped,” said Judy Ronquillo, the church manager. Not only that, the church told ABC-7 the statue began weeping again on Saturday. “We need to stay

Mescalero residents are allowed to go back homes after being evacuated for a forest fire that started Thursday. Residents gathered with Governor Susana Martinez Sunday for a community meeting where they were updated. “We have 1300 acres that have been burned, which is a lot of acreage, but as all the fires that I have

TxDOT is launching its “Drive Clean Texas” summer clean air campaign across the Lone Star State. The Drive Clean Texas campaign was created to build awareness about the simple steps motorists can take to help reduce harmful emissions from their vehicles and contribute to improved air quality, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. The

Seven people protesting a jail sentence for a black man using an improvised flamethrower during violent white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year have been arrested. On Friday, a judge ordered a 20-day jail sentence for Corey Long, who said he used the makeshift flamethrower to protect himself. The Daily Progress reports that a

The average price of regular-grade gasoline in the U.S. has remained relatively steady for the past three weeks with a national average of $3.01 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that a drop in crude prices has not been seen at the pump. Lundberg says that station operators kept

Authorities say three people are dead and three seriously injured after a two-vehicle crash in Central Texas. According to the Pedernales Fire Department, one of the vehicles collided with the side of the other on Texas Highway 71 near Spicewood, northwest of Austin. One man died at the scene, and two others died after being

Authorities are looking for an inmate who was mistakenly released early. The Metropolitan Detention Center says it released Duwin Perez-Cordova on Sunday and that the 27-year-old was last seen downtown, where he was dropped off. Perez-Cordova had been held at the jail since December on charges of attempting to commit a felony, shooting at or

A Honduran man who entered the U.S. illegally killed himself in a Texas jail despite guards checking on him every half-hour and a camera in his padded cell, authorities say. Marco Antonio Munoz, 39, was found unresponsive in his cell on the morning of May 13, a day after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents

A Kirtland Air Force Base high-ranking officer with top security clearance who disappeared 35 years ago has been found in California. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations said in a news release this week that it had captured William Howard Hughes, Jr., at his home after a fraud investigation involving a fake identity he

U.S. authorities have confirmed that a Honduran man was found dead in a Texas jail cell of an “apparent suicide” last month, but made no mention of details in a Washington Post report that the man was enraged after his wife and son were separated from him. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement

Seventy four years ago Allied Forces stormed the northern beaches of France to retake Europe during World War II. Saturday World War II veterans were celebrated in the borderland with a dinner and parachute jump at the War Eagles Air Museum. We asked a World War II veteran who fought in France and asked what

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of a New York pizza shop worker in danger of being sent back to Ecuador. Attorneys for the Legal Aid Society obtained the temporary stay for Pablo Villavicencio (via-veeh-SEN’-sioh) after a hearing in Manhattan federal court Saturday. Villavicencio was arrested on June 1 when he tried to

Two young children and their 90-year-old grandmother are dead after a house fire north of Houston. Authorities in Conroe say the blaze was reported at 2:30 a.m. Saturday in a house where a mother, father, their four young children and the family’s grandmother were trapped inside. The parents escaped and firefighters and neighbors helped a