CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Juarez law enforcement announced the arrest Thursday of a suspect in the slaying of an El Paso mother of seven whose body was found a day prior in a vacant lot. The Mexican news outlet El Diario identified the accused killer as Victor ZD and said he is being charged with
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UPDATE, Oct. 27: Police announced the arrest Wednesday of northeast El Paso teen seen in a social media video shooting a semi-automatic firearm into the air from a moving car. It followed a report Tuesday night by ABC-7 highlighting this latest incident in what’s becoming a disturbing trend of such cases in the Borderland. Luis
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UPDATE: New Mexico authorities said Wednesday they have recovered a lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting. Investigators discussed their initial findings in the shooting in which actor Alec Baldwin fired a gun, killing a cinematographer and wounding the director. Testing is being done to determine
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The assistant director on “Rust” who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that fired the fatal shot acknowledged to investigators that he did not check all the rounds loaded in the weapon prior to the lethal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a detective wrote in a search warrant affidavit made public Wednesday afternoon.
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EL PASO, Texas — A 73-year-old central El Paso man was critically hurt Tuesday after being attacked by a pair of pit bulls in front of a home in the 800 block of Mission Road. “These dogs came out of nowhere… they went straight to him and they just started attacking him, full-blown attacking him,”
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Joel Aguilar Villanueva, the former principal of Zia Middle School in Las Cruces, was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison in a plea deal with federal prosecutors on child pornography charges. Under the deal, Villanueva pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography. He was originally charged with both possession and transportation
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Criminal charges have not been ruled out in the fatal shooting on set of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust,” the Santa Fe County district attorney told the New York Times on Tuesday afternoon. The district attorney said the investigation was focusing on ballistics in an effort to determine what kind
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EL PASO, Texas — A 25-year-old man faces aggravated robbery charges after he allegedly took a woman’s car at knifepoint. El Paso police say Sergio Renteria of Las Cruces carjacked a 23-year-old woman at Cielo Vista Mall last Friday night. A police helicopter spotted the car speeding away from the mall and directed officers to
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EL PASO, Texas – A high-profile fugitive sought for the 2018 slaying of a Horizon City teenager was arrested at the Bridge of the Americas border crossing during a vehicle inspection, federal and local authorities announced Tuesday. 21-year-old Arath Jauregui, a U.S. citizen, was nabbed Monday afternoon at the El Paso port of entry by
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By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe have arrested 150 people and seized more than $31 million in an international drug trafficking investigation stemming from sales on the darknet. The Justice Department says the arrests are connected to a 10-month investigation between federal law enforcement officials
Continue Reading BOISE, Idaho — Police in Boise said two people were killed and four injured in a shooting Monday afternoon at a shopping mall; one person was in custody. At a news conference, authorities said a police officer was among the four people injured after officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect. “I cannot stress enough how
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By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman says the U.S. conspiracy conviction of the notorious Mexican drug lord should be thrown out. Attorney Marc Fernich made the argument before a federal appeals court on Monday, telling the three-judge panel that the jury for Guzman flouted admonitions
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — A search warrant provided Monday by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office reveals new details into the moments before actor Alec Baldwin fired a deadly shot on a New Mexico movie set last week. The accidental weapon discharge on the film set of the Western, ‘Rust,’ left the film’s director
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UPDATE, Oct. 24: Police on Sunday identified the man arrested after shots were fired at an east El Paso apartment complex as 26-year-old Josue Emilio Acosta. In addition to being charged with felony counts of illegal gun possession, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and family violence assault, authorities have also charged him with multiple
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UPDATE: Albuquerque Police on Saturday night said they had located the stolen Penske rental truck with Las Cruces High School’s band equipment. The truck was located in the area of 8th Street NW and Hanes Avenue NW in Albuquerque, and some of the equipment was still inside. The fundraising coordinator for the band, Lorraine Leachman,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man was hospitalized after a shooting in Las Cruces late Saturday night. The shooting took place at Jordan Road and Monte Vista Avenue. The victim was flown by helicopter to El Paso for treatment at University Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition. What led up to the
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UPDATE: Police confirmed a 25-year-old woman suffered a leg wound and a 20-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet early Saturday as multiple gunshots rang out at the La Estancia Apartment complex in east El Paso following a burglary. The 25-year-old victim was treated at a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries, while the 20-year-old
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EL PASO, Texas – Local and state officials have shut down a west El Paso massage parlor where they contend “illegal activity occurs habitually.” Friday’s closure of New Health Spa Massage at 6330 N. Mesa Street came by way of a judge’s order after the El Paso County Attorney’s Office said a year-long investigation documented
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EL PASO, Texas — An Irvin High School student was taken into custody Friday by El Paso Independent School District Police after a report that he had a gun near the school. “There were reports of a student showing a weapon at a nearby park. The student was immediately identified and is in custody,” said
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UPDATE, Oct. 22: A man was being held on $200,000 bond after El Paso police arrested him with a knife in his hands standing over a stabbing victim, authorities said Friday. 33-year-old Jesus Luna Vasquez was jailed downtown in the El Paso County Detention Facility on a charge of aggravated assault. Police allege he stabbed
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — A “habitual sex offender” found hiding in a shed by Otero County authorities has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing a child, prosecutors said Friday. The sentencing of Bryan Sanders, 42, of Chaparral, came after a jury in Alamogordo convicted him earlier this year on charges of
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Department of Public Safety officers and federal agents said they arrested 14 men in a prostitution sting conducted in the El Paso area earlier this month. The two-day operation resulted in the arrest of the 14 suspects, 12 of whom were El Pasoans. All of the men arrested allegedly solicited sex
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UPDATE, Oct.20: Police said a 37-year-old man wounded at Chankla’s bar over the weekend was a burglar who was shot after breaking in. Investigators said the man, whose identity wasn’t released, had been thrown out of the bar along with his girlfriend after being involved in an altercation. Later that morning, the man returned to
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Update: Las Cruces Police on Wednesday identified 26-year-old Tyler Williams as the shooter who allegedly killed a man at an apartment complex Tuesday. Investigators said Williams fatally shot Carlos Ruiz, 30. They did not reveal a motive. Williams is described as approximately 6-feet-tall and 150-pounds with a thin build. Police say he was last seen
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Leyla Santiago and Gregory Lemos, CNN Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who carried out the massacre of students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, pleaded guilty in a Florida courtroom Wednesday to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. Cruz, 23, faces a minimum
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According to the Otero County Sheriff’s Office, Izrael Martinez was found and is safe. No further details were provided. ++++++ CHAPARRAL, New Mexico- An Amber Alert has been issued for a 4-year-old boy who authorities say was abducted by his non-custodial mother. According to the Otero County Sheriff’s Office, Izrael Martinez was taken by
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Editor’s note: Video contains profanities. DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico – Video just released to ABC-7 shows a 12-year-old driver leading Doña Ana County sheriff’s deputies on an intense chase that resulted in a wrong-way crash back in September. Photos and videos of the alarming incident initially circulated on September 12th. Because the driver is
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UPDATE, Oct. 18: Authorities told ABC-7 on Monday that a couple with ties to a criminal cartel, accused of kidnapping a 33-year-old woman for five hours on Sunday, was in custody following a standoff with local and federal law enforcement in southern New Mexico. “We understood from El Paso police that the woman escaped her
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police on Monday afternoon responded to a residential neighborhood on the city’s eastside for an unusual discovery. Dispatchers said bomb technicians were sent to the 8500 block of Moye for a retrieval. Officials said a “large bullet” was found in the backyard of a home, but no further details
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EL PASO, Texas — The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they have seen an increased risk of QR code scams around the nation as more businesses move to barcodes during the pandemic. Special Agent Paul Davis, the supervisor for the computer intrusion program for the El Paso FBI office, says these scams have not popped
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