EL PASO, Texas — Police arrested a man armed with a gun at a west El Paso Target store Tuesday afternoon following a struggle. Officers were dispatched to the store at 801 Sunland Park about 3 p.m. on a report of a “belligerent subject armed with a gun… disturbing customers,” police said. When the officers
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SUNRISE, Florida — Two FBI agents were fatally shot and three agents were wounded in a shootout as they executed a search warrant on Tuesday morning, the FBI said. The subject of the warrant is dead, the FBI said in a statement. The shooting occurred about 6 a.m. as a team of law enforcement officers
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Investigators have recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a U.S. Capitol Police officer in the shooting of a pro-Trump rioter who was killed during the insurrection, according to people familiar with the matter. The shooting of the Capitol rioter, Ashli Babbitt, remains under investigation by the DC Metropolitan Police, the
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HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas – Five Mexican nationals were charged in federal court Monday in connection with a smuggling incident that attempted to bring dozens of undocumented migrants and millions of dollars of drugs into the country through Hudspeth County. Four Mexican nationals were charged with one count of conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants. Those charged
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EL PASO, Texas — The man accused of killing 23 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart had a court status conference on his federal hate crimes charges delayed Monday. The Feb. 1 hearing for Patrick Crusius has now been rescheduled for May 3, according to a court
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AUSTIN, Texas — An Amber Alert was mistakenly published from the Texas Alerts System on Friday for Chucky the doll and his child, according to ABC affiliate KVUE. The alert listed Chucky from the “Child’s Play” horror series as a suspect. He was described as a 28-year-old with red, auburn hair, blue eyes, stands at
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HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — A judge has ruled that two 14-year-old boys charged with capital murder will remain in custody for allegedly killing a mother of three who was delivering an Uber Eats order to an apartment building in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Ryan Graham, 31, was delivering food last weekend to a Haltom City
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EL PASO, Texas — A legal aid clinic operated by the El Paso Catholic Diocese said a woman who survived the Aug. 3, 2019 Cielo Vista Walmart mass shooting was deported to Juarez by federal authorities on Friday after being pulled over in a car for traffic violations. The shooting victim, identified by Diocesan Migrant
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VADO, New Mexico – A 27-year-old New Mexico man was charged in federal court Friday with sabotaging rail tracks and intentionally derailing a freight train in Vado last month that injured two people and caused millions of dollars in damage. Luis Angel Rodriguez of La Mesa was ordered held without bond after making an initial
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(Editor’s note: This case will be featured on “20/20” Friday at 8 p.m. on ABC-7 KVIA.) YUMA, ARIZONA — Scott Falater has been told many times how he murdered his wife, Yarmila Falater. He’s heard the gruesome details of how he stabbed her dozens of times in the family’s backyard and shoved her body into
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters discovered on January 6 were planted the night before the insurrection at the Capitol, the FBI confirmed Friday. Video obtained by The Washington Post shows a suspect shortly before he allegedly placed an explosive device near the headquarters of the Republican National
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso woman learned a horrible secret about her family: Her great-grandfather had been massacred, along with 14 other men and boys, on Jan. 28, 1918. When Arlinda Valencia learned who was to blame for the terrible act, she realized more needed to be done to expose the dark past
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EL PASO, Texas – A Colorado fugitive sought in the shootings of two people, including a 3-year-old girl who was critically wounded, was caught by federal authorities as he tried to cross into El Paso from Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they made the capture of 19-year-old Guadalupe Jose Villanueva earlier this
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EL PASO, Texas — A portion of the Lazy Cow Trail in the Franklin Mountains was cordoned off Thursday afternoon as an El Paso police bomb squad examined a possible explosive that turned out to be an old fuse. Authorities said park rangers made the discovery of the device around noon along the trail in
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas pediatrician diagnosed with terminal cancer killed another pediatrician during a hostage situation before turning the gun on himself, according to an Austin Police Department news release. Dispatchers received a call on Tuesday saying a man walked into the offices of Children’s Medical Group with a gun and was holding hostages
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UPDATE, Jan. 27: El Paso police identified a 27-year-old truck driver as the man who was shot and killed by officers after threatening a mass shooting along I-10 earlier this month. Police confronted Jean Paul Stanely back on Jan. 15 in a west El Paso neighborhood where they said he was armed with a rifle. According
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CARLSBAD, New Mexico — The New Mexico State Police said a local law enforcement officer was wounded Wednesday night south of Carlsbad in a confrontation with a suspect that triggered gunfire. While NMSP officials didn’t indicate the events surrounding the gunfire, they said the suspect was taken into custody unharmed. According to NMSP, an Eddy
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WASHINGTON, DC — Defense attorneys for jailed Cowboys for Trump leader Couy Griffin urged a federal judge Wednesday to release the Otero County commissioner and gun rights advocate as he awaits trial in Washington in connection with the siege on the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors want Griffin, a resident of Tularosa, New Mexico, held without bail
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EL PASO, Texas – State troopers and sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday they have arrested nine members of a dangerous street gang involved in significant drug dealing in El Paso. In addition, authorities said they anticipated more arrests stemming from an 11-month investigation into drug operations by the Barrio Azteca gang. The nine arrested were being
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday issued a threat bulletin due to the potential for violence from extremists that object to the presidential transition, hold anti-government views or are motivated by other false narratives. Acting DHS Security Secretary David Pekoske issued the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin “due to
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso man has been arrested in connection with a burglary of an auto parts yard in far east El Paso. Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a burglary along the 13300 block of Montana on Jan. 23. Deputies found Gregory Parlier, age 34, who was hiding in the business.
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EL PASO, Texas — During an El Paso County Commissioners Court meeting, Chief Tom Whitten of the Sheriff’s Office said over 80% of its deputies had gotten vaccinated against Covid-19, but the others have not for a variety of reasons. Whitten said that some could not get vaccinated because they had come down with the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A 44-year-old Las Cruces man has been arrested after he allegedly exposed himself to a teenage girl back in December, police said Monday. Tommy Carrillo Rodriguez, 44, is charged with one felony count of aggravated indecent exposure to a child under 18. Las Cruces police say that on Dec. 13
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso man wanted on a federal warrant for migrant smuggling was arrested after a car chase involving Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the U.S. Border Patrol, officials said Monday. About 5 p.m. Saturday, a Texas trooper attempted to make a traffic stop on a known fugitive. According
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Indianapolis Metro Police have charged a suspect in connection with the shooting deaths of five people and an unborn child, police said Monday in a news release. Police are not identifying the suspect and did not provide any additional details because the individual is a juvenile. They would not comment to CNN on what connection,
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EL PASO, Texas — A suspect was taken into custody by El Paso police early Sunday morning during a search that followed the reported kidnapping of a child. That child was located, apparently unharmed, around 4 a.m. along with the suspect after being abducted overnight from the area of Mauer Drive and N. Yarbrough Drive.
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police and Crime Stoppers are asking for the public’s help in solving a 2-year-old murder and assault that happened outside of a northeast El Paso bar. At 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 13, 2019, a fight broke out in the parking lot next to the TKO bar at 10108 McCombs.
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UPDATE, Jan. 22: A Chaparral man who allegedly carjacked a gas tanker truck from University Medical Center, and then led police on a high-speed chase along I-10 from El Paso to the outskirts of Las Cruces, made an initial court appearance on Friday. Noe Garcia, 32, appeared before a federal magistrate on a charge of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A previously convicted sex offender father who admitted taking his two young sons from a Las Cruces daycare and fleeing with them to Mexico was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for international kidnapping and child pornography, prosecutors said Friday. 52-year-old Clarence Michael Ransom pleaded guilty in a deal
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UPDATE, Jan. 21: Funeral services were held Thursday for an El Paso police detective who died on-duty after “having a medical emergency at police headquarters.” Fellow officers and others turned out to lay Det. Charles Harmon to rest. He was one of two EPPD detectives who died this month; the other passed away from Covid-19.
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