LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 22-year-old man barricaded himself inside a Las Cruces hotel room Wednesday triggering a standoff with police who were trying to serve a warrant. A SWAT team was deployed at the WoodSpring Suites hotel at 2080 S. Triviz Drive around 11 a.m. as other nearby rooms in the hotel were
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UPDATE, May 12: Investigators have determined that over a dozen goats and sheep found slain in a northeast El Paso desert area earlier this week were actually killed in New Mexico, authorities said Tuesday, and a suspect was being questioned. The El Paso Police Department’s animal cruelty unit said it turned over to New Mexico
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EL PASO, Texas — Thirteen women filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday alleging that an El Paso hotel worker with a known criminal history secretly filmed up their skirts in a hotel restroom during a recent nursing conference. The suit filed against the owners and operators of the Hilton Garden Inn El Paso University Hotel and
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The owner of a 6-year-old pit bull terrier allegedly stabbed the dog 29 times last December and the Doña Ana County Sheriff wants to know why the case hasn’t been prosecuted. DASO responded to a disturbance on Dec. 15, 2020 between two brothers, including 27-year-old Dagoberto Jimenez, in the 9400
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UPDATE, May 12: A 25-year-old Las Cruces man sought by police for allegedly causing thousands of dollars in vandalism damage last month to businesses in the Mesquite Historic District, including a popular coffee house, has now been taken into custody. Police announced the arrest of Joel Arciniega Saenz on Wednesday. He was being held in
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FORT BLISS, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier has been convicted in a court-martial for a laundry list of offenses, including murder and assault, the U.S. Army announced Tuesday. Pfc. Luis Morales-Sanchez, 24, was convicted Monday by a military judge and sentenced to nearly 41 years confinement. He was also ordered to be dishonorably discharged
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man believed to have been high on hallucinogenic drugs is jailed on charges he attacked his 21-year-old niece, stabbing her multiple times and leaving her hospitalized in serious condition, police said Tuesday. Adam Alavarez, 35, was being held without bond on a felony count of aggravated battery
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ATLANTA, Georgia — Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims, according to a source familiar with the criminal investigation. Fulton County
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EDEN, Texas — Two sheriff’s deputies have been killed in the central Texas town of Eden and a suspect has been arrested, according to authorities and media reports on Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Justin Baker confirmed that the Concho County deputies died, but he said further details would be released in a
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MESQUITE, New Mexico — A Mesquite man has been arrested in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 5-month-old daughter last month, according to Doña Ana County Sheriff’s officials. They said 23-year-old Israel Ramirez is facing one count of intentional child abuse resulting in the death of a child under 12 and one count of
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HOUSTON, Texas — A man has been charged with felony evading arrest after he escaped from police while housing a Bengal tiger in his yard. Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, was out on bond for a murder charge in Fort Bend County, when neighbors spotted the big cat, Houston Police Commander Ron Borza said during a
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UPDATE, May 10: A district court judge Monday ordered that a Las Cruces murder fugitive captured hiding in a Juarez warehouse last month be held without bond until his trial. Judge Conrad Perea ruled that 32-year-old Alfonso Rodriguez posed a danger to the community if granted bail and released. He will remain in the Doña
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ORLANDO, Florida — A man was fatally shot outside a U.S. Customs and Immigration Services building in central Florida, and a suspect has been taken into custody. It happened Monday morning in an office park in south Orlando. Police Lt. Diego Toruno says a man and a woman were entering the building when another man
Continue Reading COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Six people were killed in a shooting early Sunday morning during a birthday party at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, mobile home, according to police. The suspected shooter — believed to be a boyfriend of one of the victims — is also dead, police said. Colorado Springs police received a call about
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EL PASO, Texas — A stabbing late Saturday night in northeast El Paso left a victim critically wounded, police said. It happened in the 11210 block of Sean Haggerty Drive. Police summoned Crimes Against Persons investigators to the scene just before 11 p.m. The victim was rushed to a local hospital with what authorities said
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EL PASO, Texas — A man was shot and wounded early Saturday in El Paso’s Upper Valley. Detectives were summoned around 4 a.m. to the shooting scene in the 5100 block of Chromite Street. Police said one man was shot, but there was no word on his condition. Authorities didn’t indicate what led up to
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso police SWAT team raided a home in northeast El Paso on Friday evening and arrested a man as a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter circled overhead. The raid happened around 7 p.m. in the area of Kenworthy Street and Lucy Drive, which was about an hour after
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WASHINGTON, DC — A federal grand jury has indicted four former Minneapolis police officers in connection with the death of George Floyd, alleging the officers violated Floyd’s constitutional rights, according to court documents filed in federal court in Minnesota. The indictment says Derek Chauvin — who was convicted last month on state murder charges in the Black man’s death —
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police discovered the body of a man early Friday morning in an east side neighborhood. A police spokesman said the body was found close to the intersection of Red Sails Drive and Skipper Drive. That’s near Hanks High School. Police said at this point, foul play is not
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EL PASO, Texas — Nearly 800,000 complaints of suspected internet crime were reported in 2020, according to the FBI. That represents an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019, and reported losses exceed $4.2 billion. The FBI tells ABC-7 these crimes happened in different sectors, many occurring on social media. “One of the most
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Drug Enforcement Administration is reporting an increase in seizures of methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl in the El Paso region. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid and is 50 times more potent than heroin. “This is one of the worst situations that I’ve seen in my entire 30-year career,” said DEA
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EL PASO, Texas — The police department’s SWAT team was called out Thursday afternoon to help gang unit officers serve what was described as a “high-risk” warrant in central El Paso. The police activity in the 3700 block of Hamilton Avenue ended with a woman being taken into custody; the charges she faced were not
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UPDATE, May 6: The driver of a car that struck a a man sitting on a bench before slamming into an electric pole and rolling over in the Lower Valley has been arrested, El Paso police said Thursday as they also revealed that the jailed motorist had a child with him in the car at
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man has been arrested on accusations that he broke into Las Cruces Catholic School last month while armed with a gun and stole more than $5,000 of school property, police said Thursday. Hugo Castaneda, 39, of Las Cruces, is charged with felony counts of aggravated burglary while armed with a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — An armed man was taken into custody near a Las Cruces Walmart Supercenter on Wednesday, averting what police described as “a potentially violent incident.” A police spokesman said officers initially responded to a report of a man with a long gun walking near a daycare center on Divot Avenue; as
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man was jailed on $2,000 bond for alleged animal cruelty after witnesses say he dumped his dog in the middle of a busy intersection, police said Wednesday. 31 –year-old Manuel Alberto Soto Jr. is accused of abandoning a Pit-bull mix dog on an afternoon last month at Lomita
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EL PASO, Texas — The owner of a west El Paso bar and restaurant contends police are wrong in their report of a 50-person brawl with shots fired that took place in his parking lot on Sunday night. And Justin Kaufman says the man arrested by police – who was later ordered released by a
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — An attorney for Derek Chauvin filed a motion for a new trial on Tuesday. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted on April 20 of second degree unintentional murder, second degree manslaughter and third degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The four-page document, filed by attorney Eric Nelson, details a
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — Police have arrested a 64-year-old man in Alamogordo in connection with a 1980 cold case where a woman was found dead in her Southern California apartment. Andre William Lepere was arrested last week on suspicion of the murder of 79-year-old Viola Hagenkord in Anaheim, California, New Mexico State Police said in a statement
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EL PASO, Texas — A federal fugitive with a small child in his car led Texas state troopers on a “reckless” chase through the streets of El Paso on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Richard Moreno, 25, of Horizon City refused to stop when troopers tried to pull him over
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