UPDATE: Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison has been released from the Shelby County Detention Center following his indictment for wanton endangerment charges. Hankison posted $15,000 bail, according to ABC affiliate WHAS. The jail did not release who paid the bond. ORIGINAL REPORT: LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single former police
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EL PASO, Texas — The District Attorney’s annual memorial service which pays tribute to victims in the El Paso community who lost their lives to violent crime is this Sunday morning at 8 at the Crime Victims’ Memorial in Yucca Park at 610 N. Yarbrough. But due to the pandemic, the annual Crime Victims’ Walk
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DALLAS, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued early Wednesday morning in the search for Chasity Collins, a 3-year-old Dallas girl who was inside a car when it was stolen overnight. Police at the scene told ABC affiliate WFAA that the car was stolen with Chasity inside around 12:30 a.m. after her mother had
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EL PASO, Texas — A man was shot and seriously wounded late Tuesday night a couple blocks north of the Chamizal in central El Paso. Detectives responded about 11:40 p.m. to the shooting scene at S. Estrella Street and Pera Avenue, police indicated. The victim was taken to nearby University Medical Center, where initial reports
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EL PASO, Texas – The man accused of destroying a $25,000 statue of Jesus in Saint Patrick Cathedral was denied a personal recognizance bond during a court hearing on Tuesday. 30-year-old Isaiah Cantrell was arrested for allegedly destroying the statue last week and charged with criminal mischief. It was the latest in a long line
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El Paso, Texas – An El Paso man was arrested in connection with a fire that did more than $25,000 worth of damage to utility poles in the Lower Valley, the city’s Fire Department announced Tuesday. David Anaya, 36, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and was booked under a $25,000 bond. El Paso
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EL PASO, Texas – A man has been arrested after he allegedly forced his way into an east El Paso home, assaulted a man and threatened to cut off his finger with a knife because of an outstanding debt, police said Tuesday. James Badajosa, 24, was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials arrested 179 people and seized more than $6.5 million in a worldwide crackdown on opioid trafficking on the darknet, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. The operation, which mainly occurred in the U.S. and in Europe, comes more than a year after officials took down the “Wall Street Market,”
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Thirteen police cadets graduated from the Las Cruces Police Department’s training academy. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 49th Las Cruces Police Academy’s graduation was limited to a short Zoom presentation and 13 separate badge-pinning ceremonies – one for each new graduate. To comply with state health orders, each cadet was
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UPDATE — Lucas Rosales originally told ABC-7 he wanted to pursue hate crime charges, but later said he had changed his mind. ORIGINAL REPORT: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It was Saturday night when Lucas Rosales and his boyfriend were holding hands walking out of the Pic Quik on Amador when two other men started
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EL PASO, Texas — On Jan. 26, 2019, Terrance Kinard Jr. was shot outside a house party in northeast El Paso. The case has gone unsolved despite there likely being many witnesses to the murder of the 20-year-old father and aspiring rapper. His parents are opening up about their pain, their plea for justice and
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EL PASO, Texas — On Sunday several dozen people searched miles of Red Sands in far east El Paso in hopes of finding missing El Paso woman, Erika Gaytan. Gaytan’s mother, Guadalupe Gaytan, told ABC-7 she isn’t losing hope and decided to relaunched the search for her daughter who was last seen July 13, 2019.
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UPDATE: El Paso police said Sunday they had now identified the two women suspected of beating an employee of a central El Paso grocery store as a result of media publicity of the case a day prior. Authorities said the two women, ages 34 and 45, are from Las Cruces and have been questioned by
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EL PASO, Texas — A person was shot and critically wounded late Saturday afternoon in northeast El Paso, police and fire officials said. The gunfire happened about 4 p.m. in the 10500 block of Dyer Street. The gunshot victim was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital in critical condition. No further details about the shooting
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces Police officer was arrested Saturday morning and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, speeding and negligent use of a deadly weapon, according to a spokesman for New Mexico State Police. A state police officer pulled over 25-year-old Lourdes Hernandez after she was allegedly speeding at 73 mph
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EL PASO, Texas — New DNA evidence has led to an arrest in a year and a half old violent rape case, El Paso police said Saturday as they released the mugshot of the man they have now charged with the crime. 36–year-old John Guadalupe Rogers was being held on $500,000 bond in the downtown
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EL PASO, Texas — The mother of Erika Gaytan, the 29-year-old El Paso woman missing and believed dead for a year now, wants to re-launch the search for her daughter. The mother, desperate for answers, is calling on volunteers to help with that search this upcoming Sunday morning. “I would like to have hope. As a mother
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A fugitive sought by the FBI for a recent double murder and other crimes was taken into custody by New Mexico State Police in Las Cruces, authorities said Friday evening. 34-year-old Dakota Don Briscoe was transferred earlier Friday from Las Cruces to Albuquerque, where he now faces two open counts of murder
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WELLS, Texas – A statewide Amber Alert was issued Friday evening for an abducted 1-month-old child who is believed to be in grave or immediate danger, reports ABC affiliate KSAT. Police say they’re looking for Armaidre Antwan Maquie Argumon. Armaidre is 22 inches tall, weighs 9 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes. Police say he
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ARLINGTON, Texas — A grand jury indicted a former police officer this week over the shooting death of a woman who was struck by his gunfire while he attempted to shoot an approaching dog. The Tarrant County grand jury indicted former Arlington police officer Ravinder Singh on Wednesday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide
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BEAUMONT, Texas – A 23-year-old east Texas man dubbed the ’dark web cannibal’ by federal authorities has been sentenced to to 40 years in prison for child exploitation, ABC affiliate KLTV reports. Alexander Nathan Barter pleaded guilty back on Dec. 20, 2019, to attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and distribution of child pornography.
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UPDATE #2: El Paso police said Friday they had re-booked church vandalism suspect Isaiah Cantrell on additional charges unrelated to the Sept. 15 destruction of a Jesus statue. Cantrell is now facing two counts of theft for allegedly stealing a President Trump campaign sign and a Thin Blue Line flag from the yard of a
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — A jury in Otero County has convicted a man of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, prosecutors announced Thursday. Jurors deliberated for three hours before returning the evening guilty verdicts against 36-year-old Ignacio Galindo on numerous criminal counts including first-degree murder, aggravated burglary, child abuse, tampering with evidence and aggravated stalking. Prosecutors
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UPDATE: Late Thursday afternoon police said they discovered an armed Las Cruces man thought to be holed up in a house throughout much of the day was no longer there. An LCPD spokesman said officers had been told by relatives that the man, who threatened a family member with a gun, was still in the
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man is accused of trying to set up a sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl on social media, police said Thursday. 40–year old Manuel Molina Alcantar was being held on $25,000 bond in the downtown jail on a charge of online solicitation of a minor. “The 12-year-old child
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man is jailed and being held on over $125,000 bond after he attacked an officer with a hatchet, police said Thursday. 29–year-old Rodney Raymond Zavala is seen on images released by police as he flung a hatchet at an officer who responded Wednesday to a theft at the
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EL PASO, Texas — Members of a group calling for police accountability marched on the streets of El Paso, calling, among other things, for Police Chief Greg Allen to be held accountable. That march came just one day after city staff presented city leaders with a plan to eliminate racial disparities and arrests by El
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized hundreds of pounds of meth in the West Texas/New Mexico region already this year. It’s part of the DEA’s Operation Crystal Shield. Now, ABC-7 is learning new details about the operation. ABC-7 was the only English-language television station in the Borderland to speak with
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UPDATE: A 28-year-old pedestrian struck by a car in a hit-and-run has died from his injuries, Las Cruces police said Wednesday, adding that the driver of the vehicle has now been identified and will face charges. Investigators said Fernando Padilla’s dog had wandered out into traffic on Lohman Avenue and he was trying to retrieve
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — An El Paso teenager was arrested in Juarez after municipal police responding to a shots fired call said they found him with a high-powered rifle that had a laser sight, silencer and magazine loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition. As is Mexico law enforcement protocol, the 19-year-old El Pasoan was identified
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