By Mark Morales, CNN A controversial unit within the New York Police Department that was revived to battle rising gun violence in the city is finally hitting the streets on Monday, promising significant training, and even new uniforms, to prevent aggressive and abusive policing tactics that had plagued its predecessor. The so-called Neighborhood Safety Teams,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police are investigating after a man was shot in the Lower Valley Monday morning. It happened on the 9100 block of Kernel Cir. Police said the man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Detectives with the department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit are investigating. Police have not
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ANTHONY, New Mexico – An Anthony family is grieving the loss of a 36-year-old man shot to death on Saturday night. Deputies say they are searching for Alejandro Salas, aka “Nano,” who is accused of shooting and killing Jose Hernandez, according to the Doña Ana County Sheriff. “He was a good man,” said Ivory Hernandez,
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Police are offering a $10,000 reward after an armed suspect opened fire Saturday on two apparently homeless people who were sleeping on the streets of New York City, killing one and wounding the other. The shootings happened about 90 minutes apart in Lower Manhattan and were caught on surveillance footage, the
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Amanda Musa, CNN A suspect is in custody after five West Point cadets overdosed — four of whom were hospitalized — on the drug fentanyl while they were on spring break in Fort Lauderdale earlier this week, according to police. Authorities in Broward County, Florida, have made the arrest of the
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, CNN A 32-year-old man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of a couple last weekend in Daytona Beach, Florida, police said. Jean R. Macean is accused of killing Terry Aultman, 48, and Brenda Aultman, 55, whose bodies were found early Sunday morning with multiple stab wounds,
Continue Reading By Jay Croft, CNN Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia recently made a series of slimy discoveries — some 300 leeches sent from Bulgaria and bound for points across the US. The bloodsuckers were busted as they came across in nine jars, over six air cargo shipments between February 19 and 25. They were
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EL PASO, Texas – In the last seven days, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working ports of entry in El Paso and New Mexico made various unusual seizures. At the Columbus Port of Entry in southern New Mexico, officers seized two parrots. The man drove from Palomas and told officers he had nothing to
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UPDATE: The jury found Cristal Cardenas guilty on count 1, first-degree murder by deliberate killing. Cardenas was found not guilty on a second count of first-degree murder by deliberate killing. The jury also reached guilty verdicts on the last two counts, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder by deliberate killing, and criminal solicitation. LAS CRUCES, New
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UPDATE (03/11): El Police arrested 19-year-old Khalil Joseph Duque Thursday. Police say Duque pointed a weapon at a woman at a department store and asked for her car. Officers were able to locate Duque and take him into custody. He’s charged with aggravated robbery, evading arrest or detention with a motor vehicle, and evading arrest
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CHICAGO, Illinois — The sentencing hearing for Actor Jussie Smollett ended with an explosive outburst from Smollett proclaiming his innocence. Cook County Judge James Linn said premeditation was an aggravating factor in the staged hate crime Smollett orchestrated. “You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime, and that’s shameful,” said
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police say an officer had to take evasive action to avoid being hit by a man who was driving straight towards him. Police say the man, 24-year-old Brandon Almanzar, is a gang member who was stopped on March 3 in the parking lot of a business. Police say officers
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police said a man was taken to the hospital after being stabbed at a bar late Wednesday night. It happened after 11 p.m. at Dewey’s Corner Pub on the 800 block of Piedras St. Police said a group of customers became aggressive toward a bartender. That’s when police
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EL PASO, Texas – Federal officials say, Ricardo Ortiz, 30, pleaded guilty Wednesday to enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. According to officials, Ortiz arranged to meet a 14-year-old for sex. But the 14-year-old Ortiz thought he was speaking to was instead an FBI employee posing as a minor. Ortiz was arrested in
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By Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former White House senior adviser Stephen Miller filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block a subpoena for his phone records from the House Select Committee investigating January 6, becoming the latest among dozens of people who have gone to court to protect their information from Capitol
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The woman accused of a double homicide was back in the courtroom Wednesday morning. 34-year-old Cristal Cardenas and Luis Flores are accused of the slayings of Vanessa Rodriguez Mora and Mario Cabral in Garfield. According to criminal complaints, Cardenas and Cabral were in a bitter custody dispute over their daughter.
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El PASO, Texas– The University of Texas at El Paso has raised alerts about emails with suspicious links and pictures of the war that could be used to launch cyberattacks around the world. The University said this would mostly be done through phishing attempts, and although they have strong controls preventing these messages from reaching
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN When Sherri Papini claimed she was abducted in Northern California, investigators were led to believe they were looking for two Hispanic women who spoke Spanish, played Mariachi music and fed her mostly tortillas and rice. Papini’s elaborate story of her 2016 kidnapping, which federal prosecutors now allege was false, reinforced a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial for a Doña Ana County woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend in 2018. In March 2018, authorities arrested Cristal Cardenas, 29, and her boyfriend, Luis Flores, 30. They were charged with the murders of Mario Cabral, the ex-boyfriend of
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EL PASO, Texas – A former Del Valle High School coach was arrested for having an improper relationship with a student between June 2018 and December 2019. The US Marshalls Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested 30-year-old Mark Aaron Stephenson on Friday, March 4. El Paso police say an investigation began after reports that Stephenson
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(CNN) — A jury in Washington, DC, on Tuesday found January 6 rioter Guy Reffitt guilty of all five charges he faced related to the US Capitol attack, in the pivotal outcome of the first federal trial related to the riot. Reffitt, a Texas Three Percenter and supporter of then-President Donald Trump when he went to
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Tierney Sneed, CNN Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, has been charged with conspiracy in the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. The superseding indictment unveiled Tuesday includes several other members of the Proud Boys who are
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EL PASO, Texas – Agriculture Specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection thwarted two separate attempts to smuggle prohibited pork bologna from entering into the U.S. A 23-year-old man arrived at the inspection area of the Bridge of the Americas on Feb. 25. When prompted to declare what he was bringing in from Mexico, CBP
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EL PASO, Texas – A shooting Sunday evening in south central El Paso left one person with non-life threatening injuries, a fire dispatch spokesman confirmed. It happened Sunday evening at around 4:30 p.m. near Ward Place and east Paisano Drive, according to the dispatcher. Officers have yet to release information about any arrests or suspects.
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UPDATE (03/22): A motorcyclist who was seriously hurt in Saturday night’s crash, has now died of his injuries. Special Traffic Investigators say 48-year-old Matthew Eric Camlin was driving a Harley Davidson motorcycle on Montwood Drive when he was hit by 48-year-old Bryan Scott Parham who was driving a Chevy Malibu. Parham failed to yield the
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UPDATE (03/22): Police officials have yet to identify the 26-year-old man who died as a result of Saturday night’s crash. Special Traffic Investigators say the fatal crash happened around 9 p.m. on North Mesa Street after a pedestrian crossed into the southbound lanes and was hit by a silver vehicle who fled the scene. Fire
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EL PASO, Texas — In less than a week, Customs inspectors at three different international ports of entry in El Paso caught five women trying to smuggle the dangerous drug fentanyl inside their bodies. The women, who range in age between 19 and 42 years of age, were all American citizens. One of them was
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A former Kansas City police officer convicted in the killing in 2019 of a Black man who was backing a pickup truck into his garage was sentenced Friday to six years in prison and will remain free on bond while his conviction is appealed. Eric DeValkenaere, who’s White,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A man is accused of shooting a woman and leading police on a chase that ended in a crash in Las Cruces Friday afternoon. Police told ABC-7 it started with a domestic dispute at about 5:30 p.m. on the 700 block of Shannon Street, not far from Lynn Middle School
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EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers thwarted five separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the United States. CBP officers working at the Ysleta Port of Entry on Feb. 24 encountered a 31-year-old woman who concealed about less than half a pound of fentanyl. A drug sniffing dog alerted officers to the
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