EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department has launched a new web site for online crime reporting. The department says the new site offers a “streamlined process” to report a wider variety of offenses that don’t require a police response. like making an accident report or reporting an abandoned vehicle. If you have
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Dona Ana County will swear in the first Black district attorney in New Mexico on January 1st. Gerald Byers, 62, said he will work to deliver justice for the community. “People expect it and people deserve it,” he said. “My intention for my office is to focus on the mission of serving the
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WAUWATOSA, Wisconsin — Eight people were shot and wounded by a gunman at a shopping mall in Wauwatosa, about 7 miles northwest of Milwaukee, on Friday afternoon. “None of the victims’ injuries appear to be life threatening,” Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride told ABC News, adding that “the perpetrator is “at-large” at this time.” Police Chief
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DALLAS, Texas — Authorities in Dallas have arrested a man they call a “serial killer” who is believed responsible for four slayings, including a Southern Methodist University student from El Paso who was killed on Halloween. Jeremy Harris, 31, was being held Friday in the Collin County jail in lieu of $3 million bail on
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EL PASO, Texas — A half-dozen people were arrested for trespassing near El Paso’s iconic Star on the Mountain following a recent spate of vandalism that has taken place there, police said Friday. The arrests were made Thursday night when officers said the six people, who ranged in age from 19 to 35, left the
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UPDATE #2: TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The U.S. government has executed a man who kidnapped and raped a 16-year-old Texas girl before dousing her with gasoline and burying her alive. Orlando Hall is the eighth federal inmate put to death this year after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Hall died by injection Thursday night at the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — More than 1,500 pounds of methamphetamine have been seized in the El Paso region this year. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has led a massive crackdown on the illegal trade of the drug, including here in El Paso. The pandemic has presented new challenges for cartels. “The drug traffickers have
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputies have uncovered what they call a “massive stash of stolen property” at two homes along Hermanitas Place in Las Cruces. Sheriff Kim Stewart said Thursday that the discovery came as deputies responded to tip received about the location of a stolen RV. Deputies ended up finding numerous stolen
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UPDATE, Nov. 18: Police on Wednesday said it appeared a married couple who were shot, one fatally, at their central El Paso home were the targets of their attacker. “There is no indication at present time that any other person was the intended victim of this crime,” police said in a statement that didn’t elaborate.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot through the window of her home, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth and Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth police officer who shot her. According to an amended complaint filed November 17 in the Northern District of Texas,
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AUSTIN, Texas — The FBI is investigating allegations that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton broke the law in using his office to benefit a wealthy donor, according to two people with knowledge of the probe. Federal agents are looking into claims by former members of Paxton’s staff that the high-profile Republican committed bribery, abuse of office
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EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working with Homeland Security investigators said they disrupted a human smuggling attempt and discovered 24 undocumented immigrants being held at a couple of motels near the El Paso International Airport. A U.S. citizen was taken into custody in connection with the stash house discoveries made last week,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Las Cruces woman has been arrested after she allegedly rammed her car into a home while trying to run over two women who know her ex-boyfriend, police said Monday. Amanda Gonzales, 25, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a felony count of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A 23-year-old Las Cruces man has been arrested and charged with more than 100 counts of sending sexually explicit messages to a 14-year-old girl and then trying to meet up with her, authorities said Monday. According to Las Cruces police, Jonathan Harris has been arrested and charged with 114 counts
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BEEVILLE, Texas – A statewide Amber Alert was issued Monday afternoon for a 9-year-old south Texas boy who authorities said is in “grave or immediate danger.” ABC affiliate KSAT reports that the Beeville Police Department is searching for Jeremiah Thomas. He is 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 65 pounds. He has black hair and
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WASHINGTON, DC — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday. There were 51 hate crime murders in 2019, which includes
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AUSTIN, Texas — More Texas jail and prison inmates and staff have been infected and killed by Covid-19 than those of any other state’s criminal justice system, according to a university report released this past week At least 231 inmates and staff members have died of Covid-19 in Texas prisons and jails, according to the
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Authorities in Ciudad Juarez said they have arrested two drug gang members in connection with the Oct. 29 murder of a local television anchor. But the governor of Chihuahua state said the killing was not related to the victim’s work as a journalist. Gov. Javier Corral said the suspects were members
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EL PASO, Texas — Inmates from the El Paso County Detention Facility are assisting the Medical Examiner’s Office by moving deceased bodies into mobile morgues. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego confirmed with ABC-7 that trustee inmates are helping morgue personnel who are overwhelmed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Trustee
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department is seeking the public’s help in finding a man who stole a woman’s truck from outside her west El Paso business and abandoned it later that day. The victim parked her 2020 Chevrolet Colorado pickup next to the back entrance of her business along the 4700
Continue Reading LOS ANGLES, California –In a stunning reprieve for a man sentenced to more than five centuries behind bars for a nonviolent offense, a judge in Los Angeles on Thursday summarily slashed his sentence to time served and ordered his immediate release. Juan Carlos Seresi, a convicted money launderer whose projected release date from the federal
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man has been jailed on animal cruelty charges, accused of repeatedly beating a puppy and breaking the young dog’s ribs. Police said in a statement Friday that investigators determined that 32–year old Robert Ryan Washington “continuously beat his 6–month-old Doberman Pincer puppy, ‘Rocky.'” Authorities said a veterinarian who
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Dona Ana County jury has found a 38-year-old Alabama man guilty of criminal sexual contact with a minor. Gary Ferrell was arrested after the girl victim reported the sexual abuse to her mother in 2017. The abuse was reported to the Marshall County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Office, which then contacted
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Human bones were discovered Tuesday in the Chihuahuan Desert southwest of Las Cruces, according to the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the bones were spotted by a hunter and were scattered over hundreds of yard by animals in the Aden Lava Flow Wilderness, which is located about 20
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Houston police arrested a suspect in Monday’s fatal shooting of an officer, the fourth officer in the department killed since December of last year and the second in the past few weeks. Robert Soliz, 24, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and is being charged with murder, Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo said
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A man claiming to be a firefighter has been arrested and charged with arson in connection with a fire inside an abandoned home last weekend. Jaime R. Garcia, 32, has been charged with arson and criminal damage to property. Shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday, Las Cruces fire and police
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces police lieutenant was stabbed and wounded Monday morning during a foot chase of a suspected rapist, authorities said. It happened about 8:30 a.m. at a mobile home park in the 2200 block of north Alameda Boulevard. The lieutenant, whose identity wasn’t released, was being treated at Mountainview Regional Medical
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A man suspected of running over his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend has been arrested, Las Cruces police said Friday. Mariano Ponce, 49, is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of an accident and using a telephone to threaten someone. At about 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, Las
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UPDATE (Aug. 5, 2026): According to court documents, Justin Kaufman has been discharged from community supervision under deferred adjudication. He completed two years and two months of community supervision. The documents showed that a judge signed the order in January 2026. EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso businessman who owns two gyms and five
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A man was shot and wounded in south-central El Paso on Tuesday night, police said. The shooting happened along the 4500 block of Blanco around 6 p.m. Detectives on Wednesday identified the shooting victim as 26–year-old Marcos Aguilar and said he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. Aguilar was being
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