EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash, the top federal prosecutor for a vast region that extends from El Paso to Austin, announced Monday that he is stepping down at week’s end. “This Friday—eight years to the day after I first joined the Department of Justice—I will step
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AUSTIN, Texas — Accusations that Texas’ attorney general engaged in crimes including bribery and abuse of office “raise serious concerns,” Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday. In a single-page letter, seven senior lawyers in the AG’s office wrote that they reported their boss, Ken Paxton, to “the appropriate (federal) law enforcement authority” for potentially breaking the law “in his
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Authorities said a Sunday traffic crash at South Main Street and Union Avenue in Las Cruces led to a Dona Ana County Sheriff’s deputy shooting a man. A man with a gun in one of the vehicles involved the crash fled the scene on foot only to end up in
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AUSTIN, Texas — A group of top aides for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking federal law enforcement to investigate their boss, the state’s top lawyer, for possible crimes that include bribery and abuse of office, ABC affiliate KVUE and the Austin American-Statesman newspaper reported Saturday. A letter sent to the agency’s human resources director said the
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a northeast El Paso convenience store at gunpoint earlier this week. At 2:25 a.m. on Monday, the bandit walked into the 7-Eleven store at 10418 Rushing and asked the clerk for a Black and
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UPDATE: LORDSBURG, New Mexico – Border Patrol agents arrested a 28-year-old Phoenix man in connection with a human smuggling incident and agent-involved shooting that happened late Friday outside Lordsburg. Agents from the Tucson and El Paso sector arrested the man without incident at his home over the weekend. The man has not been identified. The
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UPDATE: A judge has ordered ex-Las Cruces police officer Christopher Smelser to stand trial for murder following a two-day preliminary hearing after which the judge found probable cause to believe a crime was committed. Bond for Smelser was set at $50,000. ORIGINAL REPORT: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A preliminary court hearing for a former Las
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police said they arrested a man and charged him with murder for the shooting death of his friend and the wounding his father as they rode in a car along Interstate 10 in central El Paso early Friday morning. Authorities indicated 23–year-old Mario Medina Jr. was being charged
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(Editor’s note: In the above video player is a live playback of the newly released grand jury audio tapes that are being streamed to Youtube. ABC-7 isn’t in control of this third-party stream, but is offering it so that you may listen in if desired.) LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Police who shot Breonna Taylor announced themselves
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LOS ANGELES, California — Prosecutors have charged a 36-year-old man Wednesday with a brazen ambush of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies earlier this month, an apparently unprovoked shooting as they sat in a squad car outside a rail station. The deputies suffered critical head wounds in the Sept. 12 attack which was recorded by
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EL PASO, Texas — Court documents show the father of three children who died in a northeast El Paso car crash over a week ago smelled of alcohol at the time of the crash and admitted to police that he was headed to pick up more beer. Juan Angel Loera failed two breathalyzer tests the
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida — A woman was dead and a man was rushed to a hospital following a shooting at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Jacksonville on Tuesday night, ABC affiliate WJXX reported. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, authorities were called shortly before 7:30 p.m. to the warehouse where they found a man and woman,
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EL PASO, Texas — Two victims described as “very intoxicated” walked to a nearby fire station for help after reportedly being stabbed at a west El Paso bar early Monday morning, police said. Investigators said the pair were apparently attacked during a confrontation about 2 a.m. at the Rockin’ Cigar Bar and Grill at 6404
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas sheriff has been indicted on charges accusing him of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death in custody of a Black man, Javier Ambler, that was filmed by a police reality TV series “Live PD.” Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody was booked into his own jail Monday
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The Dona Ana County Detention Center has a new leader. Bryan Baker has been named the new director of the county detention facility. County Manager Fernando Macias made the announcement Friday. Baker has served as interim director since March. He joined the detention center as a cadet in 2001. During
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County District Attorney’s Office paid tribute to the 23 victims killed in the Cielo Vista Walmart mass shooting on Aug. 3 of last years, as well as other victims who have died due to violent crimes. The office read the names of victims during their annual memorial service
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CLOVIS, New Mexico — Three people have been charged for leading police on a wild chase through a New Mexico corn field last month, ABC affiliate KOAT reports. New Mexico State Police have now released dash cam footage of the crazy August chase that started with a routine traffic stop. Police had clocked a vehicle
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police on Friday night put out a public call for help to identify and find a man who held up a couple at knifepoint and stole their French bulldog puppy. Investigators said the theft took place earlier this month in the parking lot of the Arby’s restaurant located at
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EL PASO, Texas — Investigators were at the scene of a body found Friday afternoon in south El Paso near downtown. Officers summoned detectives to the 500 block of S. Stanton around 2:30 p.m. after the body was discovered. Authorities provided no immediate details surrounding how the body was found, any identification, or a suspected
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EL PASO, Texas — Two men have been arrested after allegedly firing multiple gunshots into an apartment complex, with two sleeping children caught in the crossfire. Police on Friday announced the arrests of 20-year-old George Brandon Lopez and 19-year-old Anthony Garcia on charges of aggravated assault and deadly conduct. Investigators said they opened fire into
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces Police Department officers are tested at random for Covid-19. As of Friday, only three LCPD officers have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic. But an alleged assault by a man against an officer recently caught on camera shows how closely officers come in contact with other
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UPDATE: LA UNION, New Mexico — Authorities said the body of the husband of an El Paso shooting victim was found Thursday in his car in a field in La Union; he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 57–year old Mark Martinez was a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who retired back in 2015
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Drivers of two vehicles that collided in northeast El Paso last weekend, killing three young children and seriously injuring two others, have both been arrested, police said Thursday. Authorities contend the children’s father, 28-year-old Juan Angel Loera, was drunk at the time of the crash – while the other driver, 18-year-old
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UPDATE: ABC-7 has obtained newly-released police video from earlier this month of the attack. You can see it in the video player above. ORIGINAL REPORT: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A Las Cruces man accused of using a crowbar to break into a friend’s house and damage at least two vehicles has been arrested after
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UPDATE #2: Heather Mariah Grace Funk and Earnest Thomas Fudge were located and arrested on Thursday, according to Dona Ana County jail booking records. Funk is charged with two counts of failure to stop and render aid and two counts of leaving the scene, while Fudge is charged with one count of harboring or aiding
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DALLAS, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday called for new crimes and mandatory jail time for certain offenses related to protests as he announced legislative proposals about public safety in Texas. He made his remarks during a press conference at the Dallas Police Association’s headquarters. Abbott laid out these proposals that would turn the
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police were at the scene of a shooting in the Lower Valley late Wednesday night. It happened around the intersection of Delta and Cargill streets, where gang unit officers could be seen investigating over a few block radius. Witnesses told ABC-7 that they heard numerous gunshots. A police supervisor
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Hours after a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for Breonna Taylor’s death and protesters took to the streets, authorities said two officers were shot and wounded Wednesday night during the demonstrations expressing anger over the killings of Black people at the hands of police. Interim Louisville Police Chief
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(Editor’s note: Please click here for updates on this story.) EL PASO, Texas — Police were at the scene of a deadly shooting Wednesday evening on El Paso’s westside. A 58-year-old woman found shot to death in a home in the 1000 block of Metate around 6:30 p.m. The shooting scene is located in an
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – As family and friends gathered for funeral services of three children killed in a tragic traffic crash in northeast El Paso earlier in the week, new information surfaced about their father who was behind the wheel of the family SUV during that crash. The services were taking place Wednesday evening at
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