UPDATE, June 22: State officials reveled new details Tuesday about last week’s raid of a far east El Paso strip club, accusing the owner of being a human trafficker and saying four victims were rescued. In addition to aggravated promotion of prostitution and sale of alcohol without a permit or license., officials said Outskirts Gentlemen’s
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HORIZON CITY, Texas — A 30-year-old Horizon City man who was arrested last year for making online threats – that included a photo of a weapon and a reference to Walmart – has pleaded guilty to federal gun crimes. Alex Barron, appearing Tuesday afternoon before a federal magistrate judge, admitted to being a convicted felon
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, for the first time, said Tuesday he will support long-debated changes to the military justice system that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders. In a statement, obtained by The Associated Press, Austin said he supports taking those sexual assault and related crimes
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AUSTIN, Texas — Prosecutors are dropping criminal charges against two juveniles after police identified a different gunman in a mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities have said the June 12 shooting on Austin’s 6th Street arose after an argument between two groups of teenagers from
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DALLAS, Texas — Officials issued a statewide Amber Alert Monday evening for two children out of Dallas who they said were believed to be in danger. According to the alert from the Texas Department of Public Safety, 2-year-old Seven Jeter and 4-year-old Curtis Jeter were taken around 2:30 p.m. Monday in Dallas. Police believed the two
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies were searching for a woman who abandoned her healthy dog by dropping it off at a far east El Paso hospital and scurrying away, officials said Monday. The incident unfolded Friday at a hospital facility located in the 13400 block of Gateway West Boulevard. “Hospital staff
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UPDATE, June 21: Donovan Paul Byers, the man charged in a murder and aggravated assault of an El Paso couple outside Adrian’s Bar in south-central had his bond substantially lowered at a court hearing Monday. Byers was being held on a million-dollar bond for the murder charge involving the death of Adrian Samuel Linton and
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — A small private plane apparently controlled by two El Pasoans was seized at the Santa Teresa airport as part of a U.S. Homeland Security investigation, ABC-7 has learned. The 1981 Cessna 425 Conquest twin-turboprop, which can carry up to a dozen people, had been confiscated and searched earlier this month
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HOUSTON, Texas — An off-duty deputy’s wife and his 4-year-old stepdaughter were shot early Sunday morning when a gunman forced entry into their Houston home and opened fire, according to Police Chief Troy Finner. At about 2:20 a.m. Sunday, Houston police responded to an “officer assist” call on West Dallas Street where the suspect, described
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NEW YORK, NY — Shocking video shows a brazen gunman opening fire just mere inches away from children as they ducked for safety on a sidewalk in the Bronx in broad daylight, ABC’s New York City affiliate WABC reported Friday. The children, a 10-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother, somehow avoided being shot as the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Doña Ana County Detention Center officer was hospitalized in stable condition after being stabbed multiple times by an inmate, ABC-7 confirmed with both the sheriff and the county manager on Friday. Officials identified the inmate involved as 28-year-old Eugene Bennett of Las Cruces, a state detainee housed in a
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PHOENIX, Arizona — Four people were shot — one fatally — as a gunman went on a shooting spree in the northwest suburbs of Phoenix on Thursday, police said. Nine other people were hurt by shrapnel and debris, Sgt. Brandon Sheffert with the Peoria Police Department said at a news conference. “We have a total
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UPDATE, June 17: HORIZON CITY, Texas — El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a boy on charges stemming from a Horizon City shooting last weekend that has left one person dead and two others wounded. The juvenile taken into custody, whose age was not given, is being charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault,
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EL PASO, Texas — ‘Abbott failed Texas’, those are what some of the signs read at a protest in downtown El Paso on Thursday opposing the permit-less or ‘constitutional carry’ gun rights bill that was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Greg Abbott. The new law states anyone over the age of 21 can carry loaded handguns in
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — A New Jersey man accused of four killings in two states was charged with a fifth this week, according to a criminal complaint from New Mexico. Sean Lannon was charged this week in New Mexico for the February 24 killing of Randall Apostalon, whom authorities say he met through an acquaintance.
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — Dona Ana County Sheriff’s deputies were investigating a “suspicious death” discovered Monday afternoon. A body was found about 1 p.m. in the Jornada Experimental Range, which is public land used for biosphere research. That area where the death happened is located about 20 miles north of Las Cruces. Investigators
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UPDATE, June 17: Three teenagers have now been charged following an east El Paso drive-by shooting earlier this week that was witnessed by a police detective and prompted a cross-city car chase ending in their capture. Police initially made five arrests following the incident and on Thursday announced formal charges were filed against three of
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EL PASO, Texas — An Arizona man facing an upcoming trial on capital murder, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges appeared in an El Paso courtroom Thursday afternoon, and pled guilty to all three counts in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. A judge then sentenced Jason Gibson to three consecutive life
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Justice Department on Thursday charged a U.S. Capitol rioter with bringing a handgun onto Capitol grounds — two days after a hearing where Republican lawmakers downplayed the deadly attack and claimed the pro-Trump rioters were unarmed. The new charge was filed against Guy Reffitt, a Texan whose case received national attention
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UPDATE, June 16: HONEY GROVE, Texas — Authorities say a man suspected of shooting a police officer in the leg in a small North Texas city, triggering the issuance of a Blue Alert statewide, appears to have fatally shot himself after a standoff Wednesday with officers. Honey Grove police said an officer responded to a
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texans can carry handguns without a license or training starting Sept. 1, after Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed the permitless carry bill into law. House Bill 1927 eliminates the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. The
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 46-year-old Las Cruces man was arrested on allegations that he repeatedly raped a young girl for nearly a year, in a case that police said came to light after the victim’s mother discovered an explicit video of her daughter. Police said Wednesday they had charged Alan Duane Dodson with
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man was jailed on animal cruelty charges after allegedly leaving his dog to starve in his backyard, police said Wednesday. 24–year-old Daniel Travon Reddick was arrested earlier this week following the discovery of the dead pet in the yard of his residence at 14157 Tierra Morena Drive. “Reddick
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VAN HORN, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents detailed late Tuesday how they uncovered a human smuggling operation in Van Horn and rescued over 30 migrants “who were close to perishing due to excessive heat.” Agents, acting on a tip last Thursday night, found a locked U-Haul truck near the McDonald’s restaurant in Van Horn
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UPDATE, June 15: El Paso police announced Tuesday that they had filed drunk driving-related charges against a motorist involved in a three-car crash last week that left one person in critical condition. 36-year-old Dalila Torres is facing a count of intoxication assault after she crashed her pick-up truck into a minivan which led to a
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EL PASO, Texas – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced Tuesday that a multi-agency investigation had led to the recovery so far of 24 El Paso area children who were missing or runaways. The joint state and federal investigation that led to the kids being found was undertaken
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican authorities on Tuesday confirmed a half-dozen deaths stemming from shootouts involving police and drug cartel hit men in Juárez, according to ABC-7’s news-gathering partners at Canal 44. There were several separate, and believed to be coordinated attacks, made on police Monday night that ignited the shootouts. Authorities indicated they had
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EL PASO, Texas — Three men have been arrested on multiple charges stemming from a recent melee at a Cincinnati District bar that was caught on cell phone video. (You can see it in the video player above.) El Paso police gang unit officers identified those arrested for last week’s brawl at the ‘Good Times
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — A second suspect has been arrested in connection to the mass shooting in Austin on Saturday morning. On Monday afternoon, ABC affiliate KVUE confirmed that police arrested the second suspect, who is 17 years old, in the Killeen area. According to Killeen Independent School District officials, the 17-year-old male was arrested at Harker
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The widow of a New Mexico State Police officer fatally shot in the line of duty in February has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, asserting the agency failed to equip her husband. ABC-7 has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed by Gabriella Jarrott in the 1st Judicial District Court in Santa
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