HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas — Hudspeth County Sheriff’s deputies were in the process Friday of recovering a body found by a rancher in a very remote area about 40 miles southeast of Sierra Blanca near the Mexico border. Sheriff Arvin West told ABC-7 the body was discovered along part of Eagle Mountain, close to the river.
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Police said a man was injured in an overnight stabbing in northeast El Paso on Christmas Eve. It happened on the 7000 block of O’Rourke around 1:35 a.m. Police officials said the initial call came in as an “unknown problem.” The 30-year-old man suffered multiple stab wounds. He was
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UPDATE #3: Twenty-four hours later, it is still not clear whether the Doña Ana County sheriff or county manager has the ultimate authority in deciding when employees can work from home. By Thursday, ABC-7 had reached to state lawmakers, the governor’s office and the secretary of state. No one could give a clear answer as
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By Stella Chan, CNN A woman who punched a flight attendant on a May Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego pleaded guilty to interfering with a flight attendant, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. A flight attendant asked Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, to buckle her seatbelt, stow her tray table, and wear her
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas board has withdrawn a unanimous pardon recommendation for George Floyd over a 2004 drug arrest in Houston. The Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles says it had identified “procedural errors” in how pardons were issued this year. The same board in October had
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts and Kay Jones, CNN “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski has been moved to a federal medical center in North Carolina, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. “Theodore John Kaczynski is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Butner,” a statement from BOP says. Kaczynski,
Continue Reading By Brian Vitagliano, CNN Former Boston College student Inyoung You pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the suicide of her boyfriend, Boston College student Alexander Urtula, according to a joint sentencing memorandum. Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court Judge Robert Ullman sentenced You to a suspended jail sentence of 2 1/2 years and 10 years of
Continue Reading UPDATE: MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Kim Potter was found guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter Thursday for the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, which occurred when the former Minnesota police officer testified she mistook her service weapon for a Taser. Potter, wearing a black sweater over a black-and-white blouse, displayed no reaction as the verdicts were
Continue Reading By Laura Ly, CNN New York’s governor signed legislation Wednesday criminalizing fake Covid-19 vaccination cards, according to a news release from her office. The new law makes the falsification of cards a misdemeanor and creates a new felony of “computer tampering in the third degree for intentional entering, alteration or destruction of ‘computer material’ regarding
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UPDATE: A city spokeswoman identified the shooting victim as a 26-year-old male. She said the shooting happened at the Red Eye Gift Shop at 1434 Missouri Ave. The spokeswoman also said police identified the suspect and interviewed them on scene. The investigation is ongoing. ORIGINAL STORY: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A person was shot
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas – A vacuum-sealed white powdery brick of cocaine and fentanyl, wrapped in gift-wrapping paper as a Christmas gift, was seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents from a car at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint on Interstate 10. Authorities announced the drug seizure on Wednesday, saying three U.S. citizens were arrested by agents and
Continue Reading SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced a significant seizure of cocaine and fentanyl at the Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Checkpoint on Tuesday. The seizure comes amid a national crisis. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, they’ve already seized enough fentanyl this year to provide a lethal dose to every American. Three
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police reindicted 31-year-old Jessica Nuñez on capital murder in the death of her 4-year-old nephew on Thursday, Dec. 9. The boy was found in a Lower Valley home with multiple life-threatening injuries in May. His injuries included damage to his brain, a collapsed lung and a lacerated liver. Police
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EL PASO, Texas – A known gang member was arrested by SWAT officers for allegedly attacking and stabbing a woman in a dispute over money, El Paso police said Tuesday. Alfredo Ortiz, 27, of northeast El Paso, was being held on $50,000 bond in the downtown jail on a charge of aggravated assault with a
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued for a 3-year-old girl abducted out of San Antonio on Monday. ABC affiliate KXXV reported that San Antonio police were asking for the public’s help in finding Lina Sardar Khil who was last seen around 5 p.m. before she was abducted. Police said Khil has
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Police in West Texas on Monday arrested a 15-year-old boy after shots were fired a day earlier at a mall. Lubbock police said two people suffered minor injuries when shots were fired Sunday at 5:35 p.m. in a common area of South Plains Mall. Police say one person was grazed with
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio man was sentenced to life in prison Monday after being convicted of killing an 11-month-old boy he was babysitting in 2017. Last month, Bexar County jurors found 27-year-old Miguel Gutierrez guilty in the death of Xzavier Cortez. A judge sentenced him Monday. The boy’s mother had left the
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EL PASO, Texas — Seizures of fentanyl by the Drug Enforcement Administration within the city of El Paso rose 456% between the fiscal years 2020 and 2021 — from 32 kilograms to 178 kilograms — and El Paso DEA Acting Director Greg Millard said the trend has continued apace in recent months.Regionally, the increase was
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EL PASO, Texas — Popular YouTube internet celebrity Danny Duncan is being accused of abusing his employees and sexual misconduct with multiple girls, some as young as 14. Duncan’s appearance at a Zumiez shoe store in Cielo Vista Mall back on April 24 was under investigation for causing a crowd to panic after false word spread
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FAIRVIEW, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued for a 14-year-old girl who was abducted in the Collin County town of Fairview, according to ABC affiliate WFAA. The Texas Department of Public Safety alert was issued Sunday evening for Hayley Giandoni, who was last seen around 6 p.m. Saturday in Fairview, a north Texas
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EL PASO, Texas – A 21-year-old El Paso man was arrested Saturday night after authorities said he posed as a police officer and tried to pull over vehicles. Israel Rubio was being held Sunday in the El Paso County Detention Center on charges of impersonating a public servant and narcotics possession. His bond was set
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department is hosting numerous Coffee with a Cop events to help unite the force and the community. Jeremiah Casillas, who is a police officer for EPPD told ABC-7: “We actually have had this event as an opportunity to go ahead and meet with the people. To create a
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EL PASO, Texas — The man arrested for allegedly beating his estranged wife’s lover to death was denied a bond reduction Friday afternoon and remains jailed. El Paso police arrested Bernard Walter Christmann, 50, for allegedly beating Juan Anzaldo, 49, to death as he left work at the El Paso International Airport on the night
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UPDATE #3, Dec. 17: Detectives on Friday released surveillance images of two men believed to have witnessed a deadly stabbing in the parking lot of a central El Paso convenience store earlier this week that they are looking to speak with. Jonathon Michael Baclet, 23, is charged with murder in the death of Victor Iram
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UPDATE: In the wake of ABC-7’s Saul Saenz confronting District Attorney Yvonne Rosales at a public event about her refusal to comment on a capital murder case that a judge dismissed for prosecutorial vindictiveness, the DA’s office on Friday issued the following statement: “The District Attorney’s Office respectfully disagrees with the court’s dismissal of the
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz A Florida man who enthusiastically attacked police at the US Capitol on January 6 with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank and a pole was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Friday, the longest sentence for a Capitol rioter thus far. Robert Scott Palmer is the first person to
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ARLINGTON, Virginia — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says the United States is facing unprecedented levels of fentanyl in our communities. DEA officials say a recent public safety surge seized more than 1,500 pounds of fentanyl and over eight million fake prescription pills. “Mexican criminal drug networks are harnessing the perfect drug trafficking tool: social
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UPDATE, Dec. 15: The president of the Doña Ana County detention center officers’ union on Tuesday alerted commissioners to dangerous conditions within the jail. “Has anybody ever threatened to kill you or rape your sister, mother, daughter?” asked Sgt. Alex Segura, the union president. His words confirm the safety concerns that ABC-7 reported on last
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UPDATE, Dec. 15, 2021: A jury Wednesday acquitted a 30-year-old man from the Texas community of New Braunfels of charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder stemming from gunfire outside an east El Paso gun store two years ago. The 210th District Court jury’s “not guilty” verdict came in the trial
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UPDATE, Dec. 15: An El Paso man whose capital murder case was dismissed over prosecutorial “vindictiveness” may be transferred to Las Cruces to face burglary charges there. A source tells ABC-7 Ivan Gabaldon has waived his right to extradition. The Las Cruces district attorney says the burglary charges stem from crimes committed in February. The
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