EL PASO, Texas — El Paso District Attorney Yvonne Rosales held a very brief news conference to deliver a statement on Thursday afternoon as the second anniversary of the Aug. 3 mass shooting approaches. She said a trial date has not yet been set for Patrick Crusius, accused of shooting and killing 23 people at
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has named two new cabinet secretaries. The top jobs oversee the departments of safety and education. Former Los Alamos Superintendent Kurt Steinhaus will become the new education secretary next month. Deputy Chief of the Rio Rancho Police Department Jason Bowie will become the next
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UPDATE, July 29: 23–year-old Carlos Emmanuel Andrade, who was arrested after allegedly crashing a stolen Krispy Kreme truck while driving drunk, now faces a slew of additional charges stemming from what El Paso police on Thursday called a “4-hour crime spree.” Andrade was being held in the downtown jail on $132,000 bond on the added
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BOSTON, Massachusettes — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show. Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe shows that McCarrick is charged with three
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UPDATE, July 29: El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies announced an arrest Thursday in the murder of a San Elizario man who was gunned down in front of his home earlier this month. 55-year-old Pedro Nunez was being held in the El Paso County Detention Facility under $1 million bond on the murder charge after being
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UPDATE, July 28: New information emerged Wednesday about an alleged case of human trafficking at a Las Cruces hotel where 25 people were reportedly found crammed in a room following a 911 call by a manger of a delivery firm that supplied food to that room. Police, based on a December 2017 resolution approved by City
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Authorities are investigating longtime New Mexico legislator Sheryl Williams Stapleton’s possibly illegal connections to a company that received more than $5 million in contracts to do business with the school district where she works and whether she got financial kickbacks. Authorities executed search warrants at the Albuquerque Public Schools offices and
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UPDATE, July 28: A 14-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in the head while playing with a gun earlier this month has died of his injuries. The boy’s shooting occurred back on July 2 at a home on Tays Street in central El Paso while he and a 14-year-old friend were playing with a loaded
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(Editor’s note: The video above contains nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.) EL PASO, Texas — A naked man was arrested after running through the streets of downtown El Paso Tuesday evening, stopping at one point to try and chat with patio diners at a popular restaurant. The incident was caught on video by ABC-7 photojournalist
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UPDATE, July 27: A New Mexico resident and a Mexican national have been charged in the death of a migrant who was discovered in the back of a U-Haul truck cargo bed last week. The discovery was made on U.S. 54 in southern New Mexico between the Otero/Lincoln county line and the town of Carrizozo.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A court hearing for the suspected Cielo Vista Walmart shooter, originally scheduled to happen on the date of the massacre’s second anniversary, has now been postponed from Aug. 3 until Nov. 18. Patrick Crusius, accused of shooting and killing 23 people, last appeared in public during a court hearing in October
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WASHINGTON, DC — Democrats launched their investigation into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection Tuesday with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke into the building. It’s an effort to put a human face on the violence of the day. The police officers who testified endured some of
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CANTON, Georgia — A Georgia man accused of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses has been sentenced to life without parole. Robert Aaron Long was sentenced after pleading guilty to all charges in the first four shooting deaths, saying he wanted to punish the people who enabled his sex acts. But a prosecutor
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UPDATE, July 26: Investigators on Monday identified two Fort Bliss soldiers as the pair of 26-year-olds involved in a weekend parking lot shooting that followed a fight on the patio at the Draft House Bar on George Dieter in east El Paso. El Paso police said the victim, 26–year-old U.S. Army Sgt. Marcus Joseph Slaton,
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EL PASO, Texas — A police response to a family violence call led to the arrest of a west El Paso man on multiple charges of human smuggling along with drugs and weapons violations, officials said Monday. The arrest of 30–year-old Juan Alfredo Arellano Jr. came after officers went Sunday afternoon to an apartment in
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EL PASO, Texas — One person was hospitalized after an apparent case of road rage led to a traffic crash followed by a fight and report of gunshots fired, according to accounts from authorities and eyewitnesses. The melee happened around 1 p.m. Sunday in front of 2655 N. Yarbrough Drive in east El Paso. Witnesses
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN A convicted serial killer known as the “Dating Game Killer” died early Saturday morning at a hospital near Corcoran State Prison in central California, prison officials said. Rodney James Alcala, 77, had been on the state’s death row since being condemned in 2010 for the murders of four women and a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Two people were shot and wounded in downtown Las Cruces early Saturday around bar closing time. Police said the gunfire occurred near 201 North Main Street, in an area that houses a number of bars, about 2 a.m. The two victims drove themselves to a nearby hospital and police said
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SUNLAND PARK, Mexico — Sunland Park said they were conducting a drunk driving checkpoint on Friday night until 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. While officials didn’t specify a location for the checkpoint, there was major police activity along Country Club Road in Sunland Park near the New Mexico and Texas border. “The purpose of the DWI
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UPDATE, July 23: The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office put out a public call for help, seeking witnesses to a shooting behind the Socorro Activities Complex earlier this month that killed a man and left several others hospitalized. The shooting, which authorities labeled a homicide, happened during a party in a desert area near the
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EL PASO, Texas — Police were investigating a body found in a car in east El Paso late Thursday afternoon; it was the second body found in a car in as many days in the city. Thursday’s discovery happened in a parking lot at N. Zaragoza Road and Vista Del Sol Drive. A white sheet
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EL PASO, Texas — After several Borderland stash house raids that turned up 134 hidden migrants and nearly $600,000 worth of methamphetamine last week, the U.S. Border Patrol said Thursday it had has raided yet another stash house in southern New Mexico. Border Patrol’s El Paso sector chief released video of this latest stash house
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SOCORRO, New Mexico (KOAT) — A puppy was found severely burned or boiled with hot liquid at Sedillo Park in Socorro, which is located 74 miles south of Albuquerque and 146 miles north of Las Cruces. According to the Socorro Police Department, the puppy was found July 6 and their injuries were so severe, the
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — City parks in Alamogordo are being “plagued by vandals” who have caused damage for weeks, officials said Thursday as they put out a public plea for help in curbing the destruction. Assistant City Manager Stephanie Hernandez offered examples of what she described as “weekly destruction that takes place in our parks”
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EL PASO, Texas — Police were investigating a body found in a car in west El Paso late Wednesday afternoon. It was discovered around 4 p.m. at 4740 N. Mesa Street. An officer at the scene said the body was that of an older man, but didn’t offer any added details. Crimes Against Persons detectives
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Veterans Administration Medical Center main facility was evacuated late Tuesday afternoon due to a bomb threat, officials confirmed to ABC-7. A “Code Black” was declared at the VA location at 5001 N. Piedras Street about 3:30 p.m., meaning there was an immediate threat that required the building to
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gas stations have a legal obligation not to sell fuel to drivers who are believed to be intoxicated, the New Mexico Supreme Court said Monday in a decision that could have far-reaching effects on businesses and that only one other state applies so strictly. The divided court outlined a precedent-setting ruling that
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EL PASO, Texas — A pair of pit bulls attacked a woman and mauled her to death inside her family’s west El Paso home, police said Monday, but what prompted the killing remained under investigation. The death was discovered around 6 p.m. Sunday at 7240 Royal Arms. “A woman having just arrived home discovered the
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WASHINGTON, DC — A Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag has received an eight-month prison term, the first resolution for a felony case in the Capitol insurrection. Prosecutors wanted Paul Allard Hodgkins to serve 18 months behind bars, saying he and other Jan. 6 rioters “contributed to the
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DEMING, New Mexico — A stretch of Interstate 10 in Luna County in southern New Mexico is now a memorial corridor honoring a New Mexico State Police officer gunned down by a drug trafficking suspect on Feb. 4. The State Transportation Commission voted unanimously this past week to approve the 18-mile memorial for Officer Darian Jarrott. “That
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