UPDATE, Jan. 19: SAN ELIZARIO, Texas – New details have emerged in court documents in the case of five people who were arrested and charged in connection with two abductions at gunpoint in San Elizario. What seemed like something out of a Hollywood movie involving zip ties, beatings and torching of body parts, turned into
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The United States remained on high alert for the presidential Inauguration Day after the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol. Cities across the country prepared to ward off threats of violence Wednesday and El Paso was no exception. The special agent in charge (SAIC) of the FBI El Paso Field
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump issued a raft of 11th-hour pardons and commutations early Wednesday that included his one-time political strategist, a former top fundraiser and two well-known rappers but not himself or his family. The latest batch of names, released by the White House on Trump’s final night as president, granted 73 pardons and commuted
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump pardoned his former chief strategist Steve Bannon in a last-minute decision made only hours before he was scheduled to depart the White House for the final time. Bannon’s name was on contained a list of 73 pardons and 70 commutations believed to the last batch of the Trump presidency. “Mr. Bannon has been
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Daniel Mark Wright, 47, is facing charges after Utah authorities accused him of impersonating an officer, possessing a stolen vehicle and stealing a doughnut. A 7-Eleven employee approached a police officer Sunday, saying a suspicious person entered his store earlier that day wearing a sheriff’s deputy jacket, but he didn’t seem to be an officer,
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EL PASO, Texas — A recent surge of activity among nationalist and white supremacy groups has kept intelligence agencies busy working to ensure a peaceful transfer of power as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take over. In the aftermath of the riots in Washington, D.C. dozens of people who took part have already been arrested
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(Editor’s note: You can scroll above through the mugshots of all five men arrested.) EL PASO, Texas – Five El Pasoans have been arrested in a joint operation and charged with either online solicitation or prostitution involving children under 18. The joint operation brought together the Department of Public Safety, Homeland Security Investigations and other
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EL PASO, Texas — A bomb squad converged on a far east Walmart store Monday afternoon to examine a suspicious package that was later determined to pose “no hazard,” El Paso police said. Access to the Walmart Supercenter parking lot at 12236 Montana Avenue near Loop 375 was closed off for a couple hours due to
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — After the New Mexico Legislature meets on Tuesday, lawmakers will decide whether the state should legalize marijuana in 2021. “New Mexico can lead the country in a legalization framework that protects the medical program,” said State Rep. Javier Martínez of Albuquerque, who plans to introduce the bill in the 55th
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WASHINGTON, DC — “Cowboys for Trump” leader and Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin was arrested by the FBI in Washington on Sunday afternoon on federal charges connected with the Jan. 6 protest-turned-riot at the U.S. Capitol. Video posted to Twitter by a media crew (which you can view below) showed Griffin being taken into custody
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RUIDOSO, New Mexico – A Ruidoso man was arrested after he twice fled from officers, was fired at by police and then crashed his car, authorities said Sunday. Trevor Hoyle, 26, is charged with aggravated fleeing from a law enforcement officer, tampering with evidence and leaving the scene of an accident. Hoyle was not struck
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department and Crime Stoppers of El Paso are asking for the public’s help in finding two men who have burglarized a couple of businesses. The first burglary happened about 5 a.m. on Dec. 14 at Wholesale Appliance Liquidation on Rojas Drive. The thieves arrived in a pickup
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man as he attempted to pass through a police checkpoint in downtown D.C. with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun and over 500 rounds of ammunition, according to a police report and a law enforcement source briefed on the situation. The man, identified as Wesley Allen
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WASHINGTON, DC — The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and FBI Washington Field Office are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect that attacked a Capitol police officer as he wad being crushed by a door during the Jan. 6 siege. “During the insurrection at the United States Capitol, the suspect assaulted and used a clear
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TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. The execution early Saturday of Dustin Higgs concludes an unprecedented run of executions since July, when Trump resumed the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus. Biden has signaled he’ll
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EL PASO, Texas – A 45-year-old El Paso woman has been arrested after she allegedly yelled at an employee at a smoothie shop using racially charged language and then threw her drink at the worker. Pamela Underwood has been arrested and charged with assault, police said Friday. The incident happened at a Tropical Smoothie store
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WASHINGTON, DC — As DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone lay on the ground at the U.S. Capitol building, stunned and injured, he knew a group of rioters were stripping him of his gear. They grabbed spare ammunition, ripped the police radio off his chest and even stole his badge. Then, Fanone, who had just
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man who allegedly posted threats advocating murder and terrorism aimed at government officials on a social media platform favored by the far-right was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury. The FBI arrested 49-year-old Michael Reyes last month after discovering the threats posted on the alternative social network
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WASHINGTON, DC — ABC News has received an exclusive and detailed look at the array of potential threats federal authorities are tracking in the days leading up to the presidential inauguration. Authorities are tracking up to 10 protests or demonstrations that are being promoted to occur in Washington, D.C. between now and Inauguration Day for
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EL PASO, Texas — A 26–year-old man has been arrested after witnesses reportedly told El Paso police they saw him violently beat and drag a Shih Tzu puppy across concrete, authorities said Wednesday. Aaron Christopher Pandelia of Phoenix, Arizona was jailed on $15,000 bond on charges of animal cruelty and torture as well as drug
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man who posted a video online threatening to kill Black Lives Matter protesters has been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison, officials said Wednesday. Manuel Flores, 43, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty last year to posting a threatening communication over the internet.
Continue Reading TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (AP) — The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades. Authorities executed a Kansas woman who strangled an expectant mother in Missouri and cut the baby from her womb. Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to carry out the first execution of a female death-row inmate in almost seven decades. The rulings, handed down just after midnight on Wednesday, allow the federal Bureau of Prisons to proceed with the execution of Lisa Montgomery. The
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — The 2020 stay-at-home orders in New Mexico had a substantial influence on crime in Doña Ana County. “These are Covid statistics,” explained Doña Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart. “They are greatly impacted by a pandemic.” Home burglaries decreased by about 15 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to data
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Federal prosecutors are looking at bringing “significant” cases involving possible sedition and conspiracy charges against some of the Trump loyalists in last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, officials said Tuesday. U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin, who provided an update on criminal charges at a news conference, said the Justice Department has created
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WASHINGTON, DC — The FBI warned of a violent “war” at the U.S. Capitol in an internal report issued a day before last week’s deadly siege, but it wasn’t acted on urgently enough to prevent the terrorist attack, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Post said that last Tuesday, an FBI office in Norfolk, Virginia,
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EL PASO, Texas — Two people were arrested, one on a murder charge, following a deadly weekend shooting at an apartment complex in northeast El Paso, police said Monday. The fatal shooting happened around 5 a.m. Sunday along the 5000 block of Fairbanks at the Pine Village Apartments. Police identified the victim as 32–year-old Anthony
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Starting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News. “Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20
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WASHINGTON, DC — Two U.S. Capitol Police officers have been suspended and another person has been arrested for their alleged involvement in the riot last week, said Rep. Tim Ryan, who is chair of the U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee handling the investigation into the police response to the Capitol attack last week. “I know that
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso Police Department detective died from Covid-19 on Monday morning, making him EPPD’s first casualty of the coronavirus. Police officials announced the death of 67-year-old Det. Camerino Santiago in a brief statement to the media. In a separate post to social media, city council member and retired police officer
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