By Josh Campbell, Eric Levenson and Stella Chan, CNN Months after he was convicted of murder, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to civil rights charges related to the death of George Floyd. Chauvin also pleaded guilty in a separate federal case in which he was accused of depriving
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ANTHONY, New Mexico — An FBI raid Monday morning at a home in Anthony was connected to a criminal probe involving the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to sources close to the investigation. That raid happened around 6:30 a.m. in the 500 block of Luisa Street, where FBI agents could be seen roaming
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UPDATE: Police on Monday arrested a couple on felony drug charges who had claimed to be the victims of an attempted west El Paso home burglary last week. 34-year-old Treavon Rashad Wilkins was jailed Monday on $10,000 bond and 21-year-old Berenice Frayre was jailed on $5,000 bond; the pair are charged with possession of over
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UPDATE: Sheriff Kim Stewart said Monday that a man found in a desert area in southern Dona Ana County over the weekend who was thought to have died from severe injuries had actually survived. She indicated 33-year-old Joseph Gonzalez of Las Cruces was in stable condition after being flown to an El Paso hospital. Initially
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police said a man was shot near an eastside Whataburger early Monday morning, and the shooter is still at large. A spokesman for the police department said they first received reports just after 4 a.m. It happened near the store at the 9500 block of Montana Ave. Police
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, Steve Almasy, Bill Kirkos and Ashley Killough, CNN Actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty Thursday on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct for making a false report to Chicago police that he was the victim of a hate crime in January 2019 — an attack prosecutors said he staged. The
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury in Arkansas has convicted former reality TV star Josh Duggar of downloading and possessing child pornography. Jurors on Thursday found Duggar guilty of the charges, and Duggar was immediately taken into custody. He faces up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for each
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UPDATE, Dec. 9, 2021: An arrest has been made in the murder of Ronnie Benavidez, who was found dead of gunshot wounds inside a Las Cruces home one year ago on this week. Las Cruces police on Wednesday arrested Jacob Pena and accused him of shooting Benavidez at 2350 Rosedale Drive on Dec. 8, 2020. According to
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EL PASO, Texas — One person was wounded and another arrested following a stabbing attack in El Paso’s Lower Valley on Wednesday afternoon. Police said it happened about 12:20 p.m. at 8560 Arboleda Drive. The stabbing victim was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, but there was no word on their condition. Police didn’t
Continue Reading FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury in Arkansas has begun deliberations in the trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is accused of receiving and possessing child pornography. The jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday, a week after the trial began, and will resume Thursday morning. Duggar faces up to 20 years
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UPDATE, Dec. 7: The recently shuttered Rockin’ Cigar Bar and Grill in the Cincinnati Entertainment District will be allowed to reopen after brokering a deal with the El Paso County Attorney’s Office – which had alleged the establishment was a haven for crime, according to a court settlement documents filed Tuesday. In allowing the troubled
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced to life without parole Wednesday during an emotional hearing in which family members of his slain pregnant wife, Laci, called him out for the killing in 2002 and his apparent lack of remorse. The
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Ana Isela Martinez Amaya, the Mexican teacher who was wrongfully accused of smuggling over 100 pounds of marijuana across the border from Juarez in 2011, is on the verge of having her visa status revoked. Amaya’s attorney, Pamela Munoz, held a press conference in front of the United States Citizenship and
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A series of threats targeting the Las Cruces Public Schools have been made on social media in recent days, but police said Tuesday they had determined those threats to lack credibility. As a result of the police determination, school officials said there were no lockdowns and classes were taking place
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UPDATE, Dec. 6: A love triangle led to a murder last month of an airline employee in a parking lot at El Paso International Airport, police said Monday in announcing the arrest of a suspect. Bernard Walter Christmann, 50, is being held in the downtown jail for the murder of 49–year-old Juan Anzaldo, a Southwest
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UPDATE #2, Dec. 6: Detectives said Monday that a mass shooting at a central El Paso bar the night prior stemmed from a fight involving groups of women at the bar. Authorities also revealed that the man killed and at least two of the three wounded victims were from Fort Bliss. Investigators said the four
Continue Reading By Kelly Murray and Raja Razek, CNN A police officer has died from gunshot wounds he sustained while responding to a disturbance in Mesquite, Texas, authorities said. At 1:40 p.m. Friday, officers were dispatched to a disturbance near a grocery store at the 1500 block of S. Beltline Road, police said. “During the course of
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UPDATE, Dec. 4: James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of Michigan high school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley, entered “not guilty” pleas to all charges against them during their arraignment Saturday morning. After being read the charges they face, James and Jennifer Crumbley both responded, “I understand.” The Crumbleys were charged Friday with four counts of
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — A former probate judge and deputy medical investigator for the City of Truth or Consequences was sentenced to prison alongside her husband on Friday for stealing $284,000 from a dead man’s estate, prosecutors said. In sentencing former judge Pamela Smith to 4 1/2 years and her husband, Randy Smith,
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UPDATE, Dec. 3: The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Friday identified the suspect killed in an exchange of gunfire with Socorro police as 27-year-old Aaron Salazar. No further information was released as deputies said the investigation into Wednesday’s chase and shooting was ongoing. UPDATE, Dec. 2: The man who led authorities on a high-speed
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police said Thursday they had safely recovered a dog that was inside a stolen Jeep. A thief snatched the vehicle containing the dog after the owner briefly left it running and unattended outside her place of employment on Alameda Avenue on Wednesday. The police department’s auto theft task force
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Actor Alec Baldwin told ABC News in an exclusive interview that he had “no idea” how a live bullet got onto the set of his film, “Rust,” but that he “didn’t pull the trigger” on the firearm that killed one person and wounded another. “I would never point a gun
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EL PASO, Texas — Thousands of packages are delivered to home across the Borderland every day, especially as we approach the holiday season, but porch ‘pirates’ or people who steal packages from homes are busy this time of year. El Pasoans have already been posting videos on social media to warn neighbors of potential thieves
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and RYAN KRYSKA Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital. Eight other people were wounded, some critically. Oakland
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DEMING, New Mexico — The Walmart store in Deming was closed for multiple hours Saturday due to a bomb threat. The store was shut down while Deming police and New Mexico State Police officers, utilizing a bomb-sniffing dog, searched the premises. It reopened around 1:30 p.m. when law enforcement cleared the scene after finding no
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EL PASO, Texas — Two brothers accused of pulling guns on an east El Paso man and shooting into the air as he ran for cover on Tuesday were denied a lower bond and remained in the county jail. Jaime Hernandez, 26, was in court Friday and his brother, Damian Hernandez, 20, was in court
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UPDATE, Nov. 26: Three Fort Bliss soldiers have been arrested in connection with a shooting that injured a 24-year-old El Pasoan in the Cincinnati Entertainment District last weekend, police said Friday. Kervans Toussaint, 22, was being held in the downtown jail on $300,000 bond, while Dominique Mills, 23, and Alain Joaquin Hernandez, 20, were each
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EL PASO, Texas — A Fabens man was shot dead on Thanksgiving by a member of his family during what authorities called a case of “family violence and criminal mischief.” El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies identified the victim as 46-year-old Felix Rivera III. Deputies said they found his body was found just after 5 p.m.
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EL PASO, Texas — A Horizon City teenager has been jailed after he allegedly attacked his brother with a knife, El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said Friday. Adrian Soto, 17, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was being held in the county jail on $5,000 bond. Deputies said Soto stabbed his
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EL PASO, Texas — A Mission Valley man was arrested after getting into an argument with his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend and allegedly firing a gunshot that struck the bedroom where the woman’s six-year-old daughter was sleeping, police said Wednesday. Alfredo Ontiveros, 27, was being held in the El Paso County Detention Facility on
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