By Laura Ly, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell will no longer fight to keep the names of eight ‘John Does’ secret and will leave it to the court to decide whether the names should be unsealed, according to a January 12 letter to federal Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York. The documents containing
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police arrested 45-year-old Eduardo Davila for setting fire to a home Tuesday in south-central El Paso. Police say the fire happened Tuesday on the 4400 block of Durazno Ave. Davila is being held on a $50,000 bond. Police say the fire was quickly contained, and there were no injuries.
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EL PASO, Texas — On Thursday, January 13, 2022, at 7:00 a.m. Border Patrol Agents report seeing two vehicles they suspected of carrying undocumented migrants. They were seen near the Paisano Dr. and Executive Center Blvd. intersection in south-central El Paso. The agents were able to stop one vehicle near Loop 375 and Midway in
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US believes that Russia’s domestic intelligence agency has arrested the hacker responsible for the May ransomware attack that forced a major US fuel pipeline to shut down for days, a senior Biden administration official told reporters Friday. It appears to mark a rare instance of US-Russian cooperation against a major
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police arrested 21-year-old Bryan Montejano for stealing and injuring a dog. According to police Montejano was seen at the 8600 Block of Montana walking in and out of traffic on Jan. 8. Police say Montejano was seen swinging the dog by its leash. Investigators say he intentionally swung the
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Martin Shkreli to return $64.6 million in profits reaped from inflating the price of a lifesaving drug and barred him from the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of his life. The ruling Friday by a federal judge
Continue Reading By Jake Tapper and Cheri Mossburg, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom has denied parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a news release from the governor’s office said. Sirhan was recommended for parole in August, after spending 53 years in prison for the 1968 killing. Two of Kennedy’s sons,
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration agency says 105 of its agents have been reported to the internal affairs division for allegedly corrupt behavior. The National Immigration Institute did not describe the purported wrongdoing Thursday, but said it was combatting extortion, as when border agents demand bribes to allow people to enter the country. A
Continue Reading CNN By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has charged 11 defendants with seditious conspiracy related to the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes. The new indictment, handed down by a grand jury on Wednesday and made public Thursday,
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HOBBS, New Mexico – An 18-year-old New Mexico woman appears in court. She’s facing charges of attempted murder after police say she abandoned her newborn baby in a dumpster. Listen to the 911 call below. Editor’s note: The audio attached to this story contains graphic language. https://youtu.be/TaURfX1kifg ABC-7 obtain the 911 call describing the moment
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EL PASO, Texas – Charges have been filed in federal court in Manhattan against Eric Lira, a “naturopathic” therapist from El Paso, accusing him of obtaining and distributing performance-enhancing drugs to certain athletes ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lira was taken into federal custody today. According to the complaint obtained by ABC-7, Lira obtained
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso district judge is on the precipice of being forced to step down. A state agency – The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, is investigating 21 complaints about Judge Marcos Lizarraga of the 168th district court’s handling of a murder trial. The trial in question is that Moises Galvan
Continue Reading Editor’s note: The audio attached to this story contains graphic language. HOBBS, New Mexico – Three people who were dumpster diving made a remarkable discovery on Jan. 7: a newborn baby. Alexis Avila. Charged with attempted murder. The mother, Alexis Avila, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. According to court documents, Avila learned she
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EL PASO, Texas- According to the Executive Director of Paso del Norte Center of Hope Nicole Schiff, human trafficking is a lot more prevalent then one might expect. Schiff added that heavy makeup, sudden change in attire and having a spouse or partner 20 to 30 years older are also indications. “They might have branding
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot issued a new round of subpoenas Tuesday demanding records and testimony from three individuals, including a former White House official who helped draft the speech delivered by former President Donald Trump prior to the attack where he
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CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — A mayor in Maryland has resigned weeks after he was charged with distributing revenge porn online. The City of Cambridge posted a statement online Monday that Andrew Bradshaw submitted his resignation. News outlets report Bradshaw said he no longer had the confidence of his colleagues and that he was unable to
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As greater numbers of Texas voters sour on harsh punishment for marijuana offenses, Austin voters will likely decide in May whether to effectively decriminalize the drug. The ballot measure, pushed by the group Ground Game Texas, would forbid Austin police officers in most cases from ticketing or arresting people on low-level pot charges like possessing
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ROME (AP) — Police in Italy have arrested a nurse on charges he faked giving coronavirus vaccinations to at least 45 people so they could get a health pass without actually getting the shot. The nurse ditched the vaccines in a bin and even put bandages on his “patients” so the scam would not be
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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for two men on Oklahoma’s death row says after a judge’s prodding that his clients agreed to choose execution by firing squad as a way to delay their upcoming lethal injections. The two inmates, Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle, are asking a federal
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By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism. That’s according to the department’s top national security official, who told lawmakers Tuesday that the country faces an “elevated” threat from violent extremists in the United States. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen is testifying before
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police are investigating a shooting which sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries late Monday night. Emergency dispatchers tell ABC-7 the victim was shot during a carjacking. It happened on the 4100 block of N. Mesa St. Police have not confirmed if the victim was a
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police arrested a man on Saturday, Jan. 8, for multiple cell phone thefts. According to police, 27-year-old Hector Alfredo Maldonado Escobar would contact phone sellers on social media and arrange to meet in person. After agreeing to a price, police say Escobar would show the victims he had sent
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EL PASO, Texas – A man in far east El Paso is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a dispute a neighbor. It happened Saturday, Jan. 8, at the 4700 block of Turf Road. According to the El Paso Sheriff’s office, a dispute over one neighbor’s attempt to quiet his neighbor’s dogs
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, the New York real estate heir sentenced to life in prison for killing his best friend, has died. He was 78. Durst was convicted of the 2000 killing of Susan Berman in September. State prison officials say Durst died Monday in
Continue Reading HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — An 18-year-old New Mexico woman is facing charges after police say she abandoned her newborn baby in a dumpster. Authorities said during a news conference Monday that four people who were looking through a dumpster heard the baby cry and found it inside a trash bag, wrapped in a dirty towel
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EL PASO, Texas — One man was shot and taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The shooting happened at 5:12 a.m. at Isla Mujeres lane in east El Paso. According to police one man is in custody and the gang unit is investigating. ABC-7 also witnessed a female in handcuffs at the scene of
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OTERO COUNTY, New Mexico — Cowboys for Trump founder says he has “no regrets” for his actions one year after participating in the Jan. 6 assault on the United States Capitol building. Couy Griffin, who is also a commissioner in Otero county, was seen in videos on the steps of the Capitol building with a
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FORT BLISS, Texas — An Arkansas man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexually abusing two minor children at homes located at Fort Bliss. Federal officials say 50-year-old Carl Monroe Gordon abused the children during Christmas of 2018 and in July of 2019. According to testimony during the trial, Gordon abused one of
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By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Monsanto company pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally using and storing agricultural chemicals in Hawaii, and will pay $12 million in fines. Monsanto was charged with 30 environmental crimes after allowing workers to go into corn fields on Oahu in 2020 after a product named Forfeit 280
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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two former investment executives from Japan have pleaded guilty in Las Vegas in what prosecutors have called a $1.5 billion international Ponzi scheme with 10,000 victims in the U.S. and abroad. Junzo Suzuki and his son, Paul Suzuki, entered their pleas Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
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