SAN ELIZARIO, Texas – A 30-year-old woman is charged with trespassing on school grounds after she allegedly posed as a student in the San Elizario Independent School District, authorities said Friday. Casey Garcia of San Elizario was being held in the El Paso County Detention Facility on $7,900 bond for charges including criminal trespass, tampering
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SACRAMENTO, California — A federal judge has overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled Friday that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most other states. California
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HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston woman who was charged with tampering with physical evidence in the case of a missing 6-year-old boy kept his body in a storage tote, court documents show. Theresa Balboa was arrested earlier this week after what is believed to be the body of Samuel Olson, who was reported missing May
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — San Antonio police are looking for dozens of people who escaped from an 18-wheeler, parked on a road outside of town, in what’s believed to be a case of human smuggling. Residents said they opened the tractor-trailer after hearing loud banging about 2:30 a.m. on Friday and found 60-to-80 people inside
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UPDATE, June 4: U.S. Border Patrol officials now say a man who died after refusing to stop at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint earlier this week took his own life. In a statement issued Friday, the Border Patrol identified the man as a 19-year-old U.S. citizen and said he shot himself after crashing his car into
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A fight between Dona Ana County Detention Center inmates, identified as 27-year-old Corey Lee Willis and 40-year-old Samuel Enriquez, has left Willis dead. According to an email from Dona Ana Detention Center Director and Warden Bryan Baker, aggravated battery charges were filed against Enriquez and he expects them to be
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UPDATE, June 3: EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso judge on Thursday afternoon refused to lower the million dollar bond for a woman accused of severely beating her 4-year-old nephew, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition. The attorney for 31–year-old Jessica Nuñez had sought a bond reduction, arguing that she has been diagnosed with
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Restoration for remembrance. A group of El Paso’s Bowie High School alumni marched up Mount Cristo Rey earlier this week to help restore the crosses that honor all the lives lost on Aug. 3, 2019. The memorial was put together nearly two years- after the Cielo Vista Walmart mass shooting.
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WALTHAM, Massachusetts — Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey has died. He was 87. The death was confirmed Thursday by Peter Horstmann, who worked with Bailey as an associate in the same law office for seven years. In a career that spanned decades, Bailey defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler. Bailey had
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AGUA DULCE, California — – Authorities said an off-duty firefighter fatally shot a fellow Los Angeles County firefighter and wounded another at their fire station on Tuesday before barricading himself at his home nearby, where he was later found dead. Fire Chief Daryl Osby said at a late afternoon news conference that a 44-year-old fire
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LA UNION, New Mexico — Dona Ana County authorities put out a public call for help Tuesday to locate a woman who is believed to have been kidnapped by an armed and hallucinating man last week from the La Union area. Officials indicated Yunuen Huerta was abducted in a 1990’s Ford Aerostar faded green van
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Authorities were investigating the discovery of a man’s body Tuesday at a Sunland Park landfill. Officials indicated the body was found by a landfill employee shortly after 9 a.m. at the Camino Real Environmental Center, which is located at 1000 Camino Real Boulevard. The victim was in his 30s or
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MESQUITE, New Mexico — A Mesquite man was indicted Tuesday in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 5-month-old daughter back in April, according to Doña Ana County prosecutors. They said 23-year-old Israel Ramirez is charged with child abuse resulting in death and intentional child abuse, both first-degree felonies. Ramirez is currently out on $25,000
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KERRVILLE, Texas — Authorities in Texas arrested a man accused of plotting to carry out a mass shooting at a Walmart, and a search of the suspect’s home turned up assault weapons, ammunition and materials officials described as “radical ideology paraphernalia.” Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, was arrested late last week in Kerrville and has been charged
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — An Alamogordo woman has been indicted for murder in the 2017 death of a teenager whose body was found in a Mesilla ditch. The Third Judicial District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that a grand jury in Dona Ana County indicted Bryanna Terry with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She
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EL PASO, Texas — A drunk driver was clocked over the weekend speeding at over 130 miles an hour along Interstate 10, El Paso police said Monday. The arrest of 45-year-old Omar Murillo occurred early Saturday morning along I-10 west at Lee Trevino. Officials said he was snagged by EPPD’s Driving While Intoxicated task force,
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HIALEAH, Florida — Miami-Dade police were looking for the assailants who opened fire outside a banquet hall in south Florida early Sunday, killing at least two people and an estimated 20 to 25 more. The gunfire erupted at the El Mula Banquet Hall in northwest Miami-Dade County, near Hialeah, police said. The banquet hall had
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GUANAJUATO, Mexico — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police
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EL PASO, Texas — One man is suffering serious injuries after he was shot outside a west El Paso bar Saturday morning. El Paso Police said the shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. at the Graham’s Corner Bar in 5900 block of Mesa Street near Sunland Park. El Paso fire dispatchers told ABC-7 the unidentified
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police arrested 19-year-old Frank James Fuller after officers reportedly seized over 15,000 images of child pornography. Police said that detectives with the El Paso Police Department along with Homeland Security Investigations conducted search warrants on May 13 two apartments at 5249 Wren Avenue, both reportedly residences of Fuller Police
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Doña Ana County District Attorney Gerald Byers said an indictment was issued against Dagoberto Jimenez by a grand jury. Jimenez is charged with two counts of extreme cruelty to animals. On Dec. 15 of last year, sheriff’s deputies responded to a fight between two brothers, which included 27-year-old Dagoberto Jimenez.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A defense lawyer for a Las Cruces man accused of threatening to kill President Joe Biden says texts the man sent were taken out of context and were “simply political expression.” According to court records, 39-year-old John Benjamin Thornton of Las Cruces was arrested this week. A criminal complaint alleged
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UPDATE, May 26: EL PASO, Texas — Woman seen in viral video jumping over a barrier into the El Paso Zoo’s spider monkey enclosure is arrested and charged with Criminal Trespass. Police identified the woman as 26-year-old Luz Elizabeth Rae. Rae was arrested Thursday morning and has been booked under a $1,500 bond. UPDATE, May
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police arrested Vladimir Alexey Von Tsurikov, 50, for allegedly paying for sex with a woman he met online. A City of El Paso spokesperson confirms to ABC-7 Tsurikov was the Director of the El Paso History and Art Museums, but he is now no longer employed with the city.
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ANTHONY, New Mexico — The Dona Ana County Sheriffs office said deputies arrested Jose Morales-Vasquez for allegedly choking and beating his ex-girlfriend. Deputies said the incident took place May 15 in Anthony, NM. Deputies had responded to a report of a domestic disturbance that happened through the night. When deputies arrived to the scene, they
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EL PASO, Texas — Gloria Marmolejo, a 54-year-old mom and grandmother, was found dead in the southern New Mexico desert in the summer of 2009. Her family pleaded for the community’s help to find whoever murdered her. But El Paso police investigators believed her son, David, killed his mother. And they learned he was hiding
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police arrested a 15-year-old boy who officers believe to be responsible for the armed robbery at a local Dollar Tree store that took place May 15. Police are not identifying the suspect since he is a minor. He’s been charged with two counts of armed robbery and two
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Fire Department said 35-year-old Gabriel Adam Ramirez has been arrested in connection with a fire that happened Sunday at a home located on the 3100 block of Rivera. Officials said the fire started around 4 a.m. Firefighters responded to the scene and were able to rescue one person
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EL PASO, Texas — A family in El Paso said they are frustrated after they have waited four years for the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting their young child. The man accused is Ramon Avila. According to jail records, he was arrested in December of 2017 and charged with one count of
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EL PASO, Texas — Residents say an apartment complex in east El Paso is continuously being vandalized by students from nearby Eastwood High School during the school day. Elizabeth Rodriguez, a resident at the Eastridge Park apartment complex, has had her window broken twice by kids throwing rocks at her apartment in broad daylight. Both
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