EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It’s something you might not have thought about since the pandemic began: jury duty. It’s something you don’t have to think about for awhile. Texas jury trials have been delayed until at least September. Jury trials had been set to resume in July, but the Supreme Court of Texas has
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UPDATE: El Paso police on Saturday released a mugshot of dog groomer Leobardo Nava II, charged with animal cruelty in a puppy’s death. He was being held in the downtown jail on $3,300 bond. Leobardo Nava II’s mugshot Police on Saturday also released a report on the incident which offered some new details in the
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man has been arrested on child indecency charges involving a young girl, police said Friday. Detectives said they arrested 58-year-old David Villalobos after a 15-month investigation into allegations he had engaged in sexual contact with the girl for close to two years. The alleged sexual abuse began when
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man pleaded guilty this week in federal court on charges of conspiring to traffic thousands of live reptiles, amphibians and birds, valued at more than $3.5 million. Alejandro Carrillo pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge David Briones for the Western District of Texas. Sentencing has been
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EL PASO, Texas — A fugitive has been captured in Oklahoma and charged with a murder last month at an apartment complex in central El Paso, authorities told ABC-7 on Friday. Cesar Armendariz, 21, was arrested in Lawton without incident on Thursday, Deputy U.S. Marshal Analicia Wong said. He’s charged in the June 30 death
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EL PASO, Texas– Covid-19 has changed the way life and work operate on a daily basis. The El Paso Police Department is no different, nor immune to the challenges brought on by the coronavirus. On Thursday, officials told ABC-7 that five of their recruits in the police academy, as well as six training officers there
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego and other local leaders unveiled plans Thursday afternoon for the upcoming Aug. 3 mass shooting anniversary remembrance. Here’s what the judge outlined… On Aug. 2, Ascarate Park will open to the public at 8:30 p.m. for a Drive-Thru Luminaria Remembrance event which will be hosted by
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EL PASO, Texas — The man accused of killing 23 people at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso was re-indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury with additional charges in the mass shooting that targeted Hispanics, prosecutors said. Patrick Crusius, of the Dallas suburb of Allen, continues to be held without bond in the downtown El
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EL PASO, Texas — A proposed city-funded memorial for the victims of the Aug. 3 Cielo Vista Walmart shooting might not happen. Ben Fyffe, the city’s director of cultural affairs and recreation, said there isn’t much community support for it. Fyffe said the city participated in focus groups generating feedback that showed Walmart’s Grand Candela,
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state because of the coronavirus pandemic. Billy Joe Wardlow was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the June
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 73-year-old man was stabbed to death by his son in northeast Las Cruces’ East Mesa neighborhood early Wednesday, police said. Lucas Daniel Gonzalez, 26, was being held without bond in Dona Ana County Detention Center on a first-degree felony murder charge after police said he confessed to killing 73-year-old
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico will require that all state and local police officers wear body cameras in response to concern about excessive use of force by law enforcement, under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The reforms apply to all local and state law enforcement officers with the exception
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UPDATE, July 8: A man accused of killing his wife, leaving her body at a Socorro dialysis center and then fleeing to Mexico was taken into custody while trying to re-enter the U.S. and charged with murder, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday. 53-year-old Sergio Reyna was being held on $1 million bond in the El Paso
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CENTER, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Tuesday evening for a 2-year-old Texas girl who is believed to have been abducted by a 27-year-old man. Authorities said Zimia Ann Whitaker was last seen in the community of Center, near Nacogdoches, in east Texas. They believe she is in grave or immediate danger, ABC
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EL PASO, Texas — A 30-year-old El Paso man has been jailed after sheriff’s deputies found evidence he was running a cockfighting ring out of his home, authorities said Monday. Juan Eduardo Montanes was arrested on the Fourth of July and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on $5,000 bond on cockfighting charges.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man has been arrested after a fire broke out at New Mexico State University’s O’Donnell Hall early Monday morning. NMSU police arrested Andrew Caldera, who had come in contact with campus police earlier on Sunday night, and charged him with arson with more than $20,000 of damage and possession
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UPDATE: Police on Monday said a stabbing and shooting in front of a northeast El Paso mobile home park stemmed from a woman asking a large, “unruly group” of people who had gathered to quiet down. Investigators said the woman was punched in the face and a man who went to her aid was stabbed.
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EL PASO, Texas — Mass testing at El Paso County jails has revealed 174 Covid-19 cases among inmates, Sheriff Richard Wiles said Monday. The sheriff said 155 inmates at the downtown jail have tested positive, along with 19 at the east side jail annex. Fourteen staff members at the downtown jail also have tested positive.
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FORT HOOD, Texas — Human remains found in a shallow in Texas grave were positively identified as Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen on Sunday, according to Guillen family attorney Natalie Khawam. Guillen, 20, had been missing since April and was last seen in the parking lot of her barracks at Fort Hood on April 22, according
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — While many El Pasons were out grilling hot dogs and burgers in observance of the July 4th holiday, others took to Grandview Park demanding justice for Vanessa Guillen. The group made up of roughly 50 held the protest for the slain Army specialist who went missing on April 23rd in the
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GREENVILLE, South Carolina — A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff’s official said. Two Greenville County sheriff’s deputies noticed a disturbance at Lavish Lounge just before 2 a.m., and saw a large crowd running out of the building, Sheriff Hobart Lewis said at
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FORT HANCOCK, Texas — Deputies shot a dog dead Saturday morning after a chase along Interstate 10 near Fort Hancock, officials with the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded to reports of a stolen vehicle Saturday around 6 a.m., said Chief Deputy Casi Salgado. The driver, a woman, didn’t pull over for about six
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HOOVER, Alabama — A shooting at an Alabama shopping mall Friday afternoon left an 8-year-old boy dead and three other people wounded. Hoover police said that a girl and two adults were hospitalized after the shooting inside the Riverchase Galleria. Multiple shots were reported near the food court inside the mall about 3:15 p.m., but
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EL PASO, Texas — A nurse practitioner for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center who worked at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail, home to a significant coronavirus outbreak, has died of complications from Covid-19. The death of 56-year-old Robert ‘Bob’ Armstrong last month is one of the latest among several hundred front-line healthcare workers nationwide
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CARLSBAD CAVERNS, New Mexico — Recently released body camera video shows the final moments before an unarmed Colorado man was shot and killed by a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns. KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported that video from the March shooting has 26 seconds missing, leaving local prosecutors unsure whether to rule the use of force
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UPDATE: A man who police had said shot and wounded himself during a SWAT standoff earlier this week died Friday morning from his injuries, authorities said. The man was identified by police as 34-year-old Ivan Zubiate. In a twist, authorities said Friday it had been determined that the man didn’t actually shoot himself, but rather
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police Chief Patrick Gallagher is stepping down after about a year and a half on the job, sources tell ABC-7. Gallagher is submitting his resignation to city leaders and plans to retire effective Aug. 1. His departure comes in the midst of a firestorm of negative attention towards
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol abruptly changed its policy on pursuits along a crash-prone stretch of Paisano Avenue through downtown El Paso in wake of last week’s wreck that killed seven and injured three. That’s according to a copy of an internal Border Patrol memo obtained Wednesday by El Paso Matters. The
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police on Wednesday released the identities for most of the seven people killed and three injured when a car that had been pursued by the U.S. Border Patrol crashed in downtown last week. Five of the ten victims, according to police, were from Guatemala. The identities as well as
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Police converged in a central El Paso neighborhood Tuesday night where a 28-year-old man was shot and killed inside an apartment home. The shooting happened around 7 p.m. in the 3800 block of Fillmore Avenue at a small apartment complex. It sits off Dyer, just a few block blocks from the
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