EL PASO, Texas – A bomb threat was phoned in to a northeast El Paso business, but the subsequent investigation has determined it not to be credible, a police spokesman said. Police were called out a business along the 4400 block of Dyer Sunday morning and a wide part of Dyer was cordoned off by
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police and Crime Stoppers are asking for the public’s help in finding a thief who burglarized a west El Paso business and stole dozens of cell phones. The incident happened on Saturday, Jan. 2, at about 5:10 a.m. A man approached the Metro By T-Mobile store located along the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Federal agents are investigating last month’s train derailment in Vado. Authorities are looking at a Mesquite man. According to the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office, the man is suspected of causing the derailment of 12 cars and two locomotives and injuring two people on board. ABC-7 is not naming him
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Las Cruces police are warning residents about potential scam phone calls trying to get them to go to the scene of a motor vehicle crash, provide personal or financial information or pay a ransom. On Wednesday, Jan. 6, a Las Cruces couple got a phone call from a man who
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Las Cruces man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed his friend and then broke into a business several hours later. Scott Andrew Lee Perez, 27, is facing one count of attempted murder. Las Cruces police initially responded to a report of a stabbing about 9 p.m. Thursday at
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EL PASO, Texas – The man arrested in connection with a drunken driving crash in 2019 that killed a Fabens High School teacher and injured two other people is going to jail. Jonathan Andrew Alvarez pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 23 years for intoxication manslaughter on Dec. 22, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office
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EL Paso, Texas – An El Paso man has been arrested in connection with two fires that hit a West Side home within weeks in late 2019. Adeoluwa Temitope Okunade, age 30, was arrested in connection with the two fires after an extensive multi-agency investigation. Okunade has been charged with two counts of arson of
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WASHINGTON (AP) —The head of the U.S. Capitol Police will resign effective Jan. 16 following the breach of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Chief Steven Sund said Thursday that police had planned for a free speech demonstration and did not expect the violent attack. He said it was unlike anything he’d experienced in his 30
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The man suspected of stealing a pickup in Truth or Consequences over the weekend was arrested in Las Cruces after being spotted by someone who had read about the theft on Facebook. Michael Todd, 30, of Hobbs, New Mexico, has been charged with one count of receiving stolen property. Las
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EL PASO, Texas – The public is being asked to help solve a 30-year-old murder that happened in an isolated industrial area of east El Paso. El Paso police and Crime Stoppers of El Paso are highlighting the murder of 23-year-old Stephen Michael Hicks back in April 1989. It is this month’s Crime Stoppers Crime
Continue Reading Both the FBI and Washington police are asking Americans to step up and help them identify people who participated in Wednesday’s riot and insurrection at the US Capitol. “The FBI is seeking information that will assist in identifying individuals who are actively instigating violence in Washington, DC,” the agency said on its website. “The FBI
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — In first public comment, the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police says the siege of U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was “criminal riotous behavior.” The chief says the violent mob that stormed the building wielded metal pipes, chemical irritants and other weapons against law enforcement. Steven Sund issued a statement Thursday
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the U.S. Capitol. D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.” Police said both law enforcement and Trump
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KENOSHA, Wisconsin — Rusten Sheskey will not face charges in the shooting of Jacob Blake, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday. Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times in the back while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A convicted felon was being held in the Dona Ana County jail without bond Monday after police said they found the man carrying a loaded handgun inside a Las Cruces Walmart after he had been banned from the store. Manuel Ramirez, 42, of Las Cruces, was charged with illegal gun
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A man has been arrested in northern Mexico for allegedly beating to death his three sons in order to get back at the children’s mother, prosecutors said Monday. The prosecutors’ office in the northern state of Sonora said the boys were aged 3, 7 and 8. The deaths occurred in the north-central state
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WINONA, Texas — A pastor was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting at an east Texas church Sunday after the pastor confronted a man who had hidden from police in the church overnight, a local sheriff said. Authorities had used dogs and drones to search for the man for two hours
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McKINNEY, Texas — A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder after surveillance video captured him beating his mother to death in McKinney, police said in a news release Sunday. The boy’s father called police to the home around 1 a.m. Sunday. The mother, identified as Stacy Ellen Barney, 50, was found dead inside, police
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EL PASO, Texas — One person was shot and wounded and another taken into custody following a late night shooting Saturday at a northeast El Paso fast-food restaurant. The gunfire happened around 10:15 p.m. at the Carl’s Jr. location at 9330 Dyer Street. El Paso Fire Department dispatchers said the wounded victim was taken to
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HOUSTON, Texas — Three Harris County sheriff’s deputies were shot and one woman was killed early Sunday outside a Houston nightclub. The deputies were in full uniform working extra employment at Set Night Club, Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner told reporters at a news conference Sunday. All three deputies were hit with gunfire
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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia — A sheriff’s deputy and two civilians are being treated for serious injuries at a hospital after a suspected shoplifter opened fire at a Walmart in Sterling, Virginia, northwest of Washington, D.C., authorities said late Saturday night. The incident began when two loss prevention officers at Walmart allegedly observed a man stealing
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The city of Juarez experienced only five days without any homicides occurring during all of 2020, making it the fourth deadliest year of all time. Officials indicated a total of 1,644 people were killed throughout the year that just ended, which was an increase of 145 murders from 2019. Prosecutors told
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The Mexican army said that fentanyl seizures increased by at least 486% in 2020. Military and police forces said at year’s end that they had seized an estimated 1.3 tons of the synthetic opioid, compared to 222 kilograms in 2019. Luis Cresencio Sandoval, the country’s defense secretary, said the increase was
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ROSWELL, New Mexico — A former Alamogordo police officer has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for his involvement in a crash that killed one person and injured two others. Luke Maxwell Towner pleaded guilty in October to charges that included vehicular homicide and driving under the influence. His sentence, handed down in
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EL PASO, Texas — About a dozen police officers and sheriff’s deputies rushed an isolated neighborhood in far east El Paso County Thursday in pursuit of a stolen SUV. Two people were taken into custody after they were found in the nearby desert after the chase came to an end. The chase began within the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES, California — Samuel Little, believed to be the most prolific serial killer in American history, has died at age 80, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Wednesday. Little had been serving three consecutive life-without-parole sentences from Los Angeles County for the deaths of three women that occurred in the late 1980s.
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EL PASO, Texas — They are located in strip malls appearing like a legitimate storefront, but behind closed doors some El Paso massage parlors become a front for not just prostitution, but also human trafficking. A three-month investigation revealed there are dozens of these establishments with explicit reviews in the Sun City operating seemingly in
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(Editor’s note: An initial version of this article referred to a state audit. Rather, this is a city audit that had been forwarded to the state auditor.) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 767-page city audit released on Tuesday alleges criminal activity and $1.8 million in mismanaged funds by former employees and contractors of the
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Federal investigators said Sunday that the suspect in the Christmas Day RV bombing in Nashville was killed in the explosion. FBI investigators said DNA evidence found at the scene matched 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, who was earlier named as a person of interest. “Anthony Warner is the man believed to be responsible
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UPDATE: The 37-year-old man taken into custody by police, identified as Duke Webb, has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. Police still believe the attack by Webb, a Florida resident and an active military member, was random. ORIGINAL REPORT: ROCKFORD, Illinois — Three people are dead and at
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