PHOENIX, Arizona — Authorities say a drive-by shooting has wounded a federal court security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in downtown Phoenix and a person has been taken into custody. Police and the FBI say the officer was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover. The FBI says someone was detained later Tuesday
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The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and institute a series of police reforms to settle the family’s wrongful death lawsuit. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, Taylor’s family and their attorneys announced the settlement in a joint press conference on Tuesday. Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was
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BAYTOWN, Texas — A police officer has been indicted on charges of aggravated assault more than a year after fatally shooting a schizophrenic woman in Baytown, a Houston suburb. Baytown officer Juan Delacruz shot Pamela Shantay Turner, 45, in May 2019 after initially trying to arrest her because she had outstanding warrants. Police previously said
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says residents are continuing to receive fraudulent phone calls from scammers impersonating different local agencies asking for money. Callers say they represent agencies like the Sheriff’s Office, Social Security, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office, El Paso Electric, the Internal Revenue Service and the
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico – An Alamogordo man with prior drug convictions has been sentenced to 44 ½ years in prison on new drug charges. The sentence for Daniel McKinley, 36, was announced Monday by the district attorney in Alamogordo. He had previously been found guilty of trafficking methamphetamine, trafficking heroin, possession of cocaine, conspiracy to
Continue Reading CIBOLA COUNTY, New Mexico — A 28-year-old driver allegedly shot a New Mexico State Police officer during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in Cibola County on Saturday, according to a statement from police. The suspect, Robert Benjamin Nelson of Scottsdale, Arizona, appeared to fire multiple rounds at the officer’s head as she approached his
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas law enforcement association erected two billboards this week, warning drivers to enter Austin at their own risk after the city reduced its police department budget. “Warning!!! Austin Police Defunded Enter at Your Own Risk” one sign reads. “Limited Support Next 20 Miles” the other sign says. Both were erected by
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El PASO, Texas – The El Paso Police Department said Saturday it is now seeking the public’s help in locating a man who robbed two teenagers at gunpoint near El Paso High last month while the pair was ghost hunting. On the night of Aug. 5, the two teens were parked along the 1500 block
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EL PASO, Texas– The Drug Enforcement Administration is celebrating the early success of their Operation Crystal Shield. The operation was announced in February, as the DEA revamped their efforts to stop the illegal trade of methamphetamine. In less than one year since announcing Operation Crystal Shield, the DEA has seized 28,560 pounds of methamphetamine with
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UPDATE: El Paso police on Friday identified two men arrested after their fleeing car crashed the day prior into a gas meter in a residential Lower Valley neighborhood, igniting a fire that triggered evacuations of nearby residents. Authorities said they were chasing the car because it contained 19–year-old Isahi Villalba, who was wanted for aggravated
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ENID, Oklahoma — An Oklahoma man accused of sexually abusing a baby has been arrested by the U.S. Marshals in Texas, ABC affiliate KOCO reported Thursday. Brice Gage Watkins, 22, is accused of sexually assaulting a 6-month-old baby, recording the assault and then distributing it on social media, according to Enid police. Watkins is facing
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott signed a pledge opposing police budget cuts — and a legislative proposal to “protect police funding” in Texas — at a news conference Thursday afternoon at the Austin Police Association’s headquarters alongside members of that law enforcement union. Abbott has called on all Texas candidates in the November election to sign the
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UPDATE: Authorities said Thursday that the massage parlor raids a day prior stemmed from a long-term investigation into human trafficking that remains ongoing. DPS officials indicated they had “served 13 search warrants at several massage parlors in the El Paso area.” They added that those searched “resulted in 25 interviews and recovered evidence that supports
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Four Houston police officers have been fired for fatally shooting an apparently emotionally disturbed man who was on the ground, wounded and incapacitated, before a final volley of 21 shots, officials said. Police Chief Art Acevedo showed graphic bodycam video, later released publicly, and announced the department’s findings into the April 21
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EL PASO, Texas — A man described as one of El Paso’s most wanted has been arrested on child pornography charges, sheriff’s deputies said Thursday. The arrest of Giovanni Cruz, 21, took place a day prior at a home in west El Paso. Cruz remained held in the El Paso County Detention Facility on 15
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police on Thursday arrested a 57-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. Carlos Prudencio Colorbio, 57, was being held without bond in the Dona Ana County Detention Center on a charge of felony criminal sexual contact. Investigators said the arrest came after the girl reported the
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso woman is jailed on accusations that she tried to burn a house down a week ago, fire officials said Thursday. Schavauhn Ferguson was being held in the downtown jail on $10,000 bond on a charge of second-degree felony arson. The El Paso Fire Marshal’s Office alleges that Ferguson set
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UPDATE #3, Sept. 9: The two Las Cruces men accused of taking part in gun store burglaries in El Paso allegedly admitted to the thefts and to selling some of the weapons, according to a federal arrest affidavit obtained by ABC-7. ATF agents claim that 37-year old Ruben Orona and 32-year old Victor Medina admitted
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Las Cruces police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into a sporting goods store and a vehicle parked nearby on Monday night. Armando Almaraz, 25, is charged with two counts of breaking and entering, two counts of criminal damage to property, one count of auto burglary and one count
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EL PASO, Texas – Police were investigating a report of shots fired in east El Paso on Sunday night, a dispatcher confirmed. When an ABC-7 photographer arrived on scene, she noticed streets blocked off in the area of Vista De Oro and Vista del Sol drives, east of Yarbrough Drive. No injuries were reported as
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EL PASO, Texas — Twelve people died and another 55 were hurt last Labor Day weekend along Texas roads due to drunk driving. The Texas Department of Transportation and the Department of Public Safety have teamed up to lower those numbers.. “You could go to jail. That is one of the consequences for making a
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police on Friday said they were seeking new leads in the murder of a 20-year-old up-and-coming music artist who was shot and killed in a northeast El Paso neighborhood a year and a half ago. On Jan. 26, 2019, 20-year-old Terrance Lamont Kinard Jr., also known as “T.K.” or
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EL PASO — A person was taken to the hospital after a fight in south-central El Paso early Friday morning. The fire department described the injuries as serious. The fight happened near Paisano Drive and Val Verde Street, not far from Jefferson High School. ABC-7 began to get reports about an assault investigation in that
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LACEY, Washington — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, a senior U.S. Justice Department official told The Associated Press. The man, Michael Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man is facing an animal cruelty charge after he was allegedly caught on camera repeatedly abusing his 2-year-old dog, police said Thursday. 27-year-old Dennis Zamora was arrested by police the previous day after detectives said they reviewed surveillance footage that appeared to show him punching the mixed-breed dog
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A San Antonio jogger who was arrested and detained by police last week says he was “guilty before proven innocent” when police took in the wrong man. Charges have since been dropped against Mathias Ometu. Ometu, a 33-year-old Black man, was jogging on August 25, witnesses said, as officers searched for
Continue Reading HORIZON CITY, Texas — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has been arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and THC products, officials confirmed Wednesday. 37-year-old Karina Padilla was arrested at a home in Horizon City last weekafter Texas Department of Public Safety agents served a search warrant. Padilla has been a CBP employee
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EL PASO, Texas — Police officers now have the option to simply hand out a citation to El Paso residents in possession of small amounts of marijuana. The program is called cite and release and is effective Sept. 1 To be eligible, a person 17-years or older must be an El Paso County resident and
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ATLANTA, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a statewide Amber Alert on Tuesday evening for two missing east Texas children believed to be abducted. According to ABC affiliate WFAA, officials are searching for 1-year-old Tru Speratos. She stands 2’6 and weighs 19 pounds. She has blonde hair, blue eyes and was last
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UPDATE, Sept. 1: El Paso police on Tuesday announced three arrests and the seizure of a cache of drugs, guns, dogs and cash stemming from a shooting last week that investigators said turned out to be self-inflicted. 23–year-old Devon McMullen, who was found on the street suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg and
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