LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — After Doña Ana County Commissioners mandated masks in all public areas of the county, Sheriff Kim Stewart said she knew she needed to get the public the masks they needed to comply. “We’re having a wonderful time,” Sheriff Stewart said. “We’re building bridges today.” On Friday, her team distributed 3,000
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UPDATE: Authorities on Friday said that 61-year-old Manuel Balderrama has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and 24-year-old Blanco Balderrama has been charged with tampering with evidence. ORIGINAL REPORT: ORGAN, New Mexico — Two people were shot and wounded in a rural area of Dona Ana County just outside
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EL PASO, Texas — Fort Bliss officials were mum Friday about a crime scene just outside the Cassidy gate to the post. A tent was erected and crime scene tape surrounded a black automobile along Cassidy Road just down from U.S. 54. Military police had cordoned off the area, which is located near Bliss Elementary
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz expressed his concern Friday over the protests that have rocked his state and the black community which, he said, is “hurting beyond words.” “Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire. The fires still smolder in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard,” Walz said during a
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Albuquerque police used a helicopter and tear gas to disperse a crowd of people following a confrontation during an overnight protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. At one point, a line of officers blocked a street as protesters shouted “I can’t breathe,” in reference to Floyd’s
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MIDLAND, Texas — When police stopped a Texas man for an alleged traffic violation, the confrontation turned tense, videos of the incident show. Midland police officers stopped Tye Anders, 21, on May 16 for running a stop sign, the department said in a statement. What happened next left a family shaken, a young man on
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DALLAS, Texas — A woman managed to go into labor and give birth alone in a Texas jail cell without any corrections officers noticing until after she had delivered the child, a sheriff’s official said Thursday. The woman had the baby in a Fort Worth jail cell on May 17, according to Tarrant County Sheriff’s
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(Editor’s note: The suspect’s father is a former UTEP football player. Details here.) HARTFORD, Connecticut — A college student sought by police as a suspect in a crime spree including two slayings in Connecticut has been captured, Connecticut State Police said Wednesday night. Peter Manfredonia, 23, had been the subject of a six-day search involving
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EL PASO, Texas — The father of a fugitive college student, arrested Wednesday night for murder after a nationwide manhunt, was a UTEP football player in the 1980’s, ABC-7 has confirmed. Robert Manfredonia, 54, played defensive back for the Miners from 1984 to 1987, the university indicated. Through an attorney, he had called for his 23-year-old
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man was being sought by police Wednesday on a murder charge for allegedly gunning down his own brother nearly a week ago. Authorities were seeking the public’s help to find 30-year-old Jaime Talamantes, but a police spokesman cautioned that he “is believed to be armed and should
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EL PASO, Texas — One person was hospitalized and two others taken into custody after late night gunshots rang out in front of a home in a far east El Paso neighborhood, but it appeared Wednesday that no charges would be filed in the case. El Paso police and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander’s video provoked widespread outrage with footage that showed the man pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tweeted
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EL PASO, Texas — Nine months ago, an El Paso mother and father died shielding their infant son from a mass shooter. This weekend, baby Paul Gilbert Anchondo turned one. “We want him to remember that everybody here in the El Paso area and our community is supporting him, that he’s not by himself,” said
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EL PASO, Texas — Over four days in 1995, people stumbled upon a woman’s spray-painted body parts — including her decapitated head. Police investigators in El Paso had no idea who she was. As they worked to identify her, they made an unusual and unprecedented request of local newsrooms in the hopes of identifying her
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso police SWAT team standoff that began Friday night in a Lower Valley neighborhood finally ended hours later into early Saturday with the arrest of an injured man. It began after an officer pulled his gun and fired at a 29-year-old man who reportedly was armed with a knife
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CHAPARRAL, New Mexico — As the number of prisoners infected with Covid-19 increases rapidly inside the walls of the Otero County Prison, one inmate’s fianceé is incredibly fearful about his chance of contracting the virus. “It’s just a really scary feeling,” said Tapanga Blincoe. “It’s like your heart’s breaking, knowing you can’t do anything about
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EL PASO, Texas – The first confirmed case of coronavirus inside the downtown El Paso County jail was reported by sheriff’s officials on Friday. A 36-year-old inmate being held on a parole violation developed a fever while being held in quarantine after booking, and subsequently tested positive for the virus, officials said. A sheriff’s spokeswoman
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The deceased suspect in Thursday’s shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas was a 20-year-old male named Adam Alsahli of Corpus Christi, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the ongoing investigation. Alsahli drove to an entrance at the naval station and shot a security forces member in
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting helped reignite the case was charged with murder Thursday, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the slaying. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 50-year-old William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. was arrested on charges of felony murder
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso police bomb squad on Thursday removed a “suspicious item” from an east side intersection. The intersection of Edgemere and Seabrook was shut down for hours after officers discovered the item and summoned the bomb removal team. That item was found near a bus stop in the typically busy
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CLICK HERE for updates on this story. GLENDALE, Arizona — One person was in critical condition and at least two others were also injured in a shooting Wednesday night near a popular shopping district west of Phoenix, police said, adding that a suspect was taken into custody. The incident took place just before 8 p.m.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A west Texas man was ordered held without bond Wednesday on vehicular homicide and other charges stemming from the death of an El Paso woman in a Sunland Park crash earlier this month. The four-vehicle late night crash on May 9 along McNutt Road (NM 273) at the Pete Domenici
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EL PASO, Texas — At least 99 of El Paso County’s Covid-19 infections come from an outbreak at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail in far east El Paso, according to an analysis Wednesday by El Paso Matters. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reports that 85 inmates and 14 employees at the jail have tested positive
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces shoe repair businessman, believed to have been shot to death while interrupting a burglary at his shop, may have been killed with his own gun, prosecutors said Tuesday. Lonnie Gallegos, 38, was ordered held without bond Tuesday on first-degree felony murder and other charges, stemming from the
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A former top enforcer for Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel who spent time in a U.S. prison has been identified as one of three people found murdered in Sinaloa state over the weekend, officials said Monday. The Sinaloa state prosecutors’ office identified the dead man as José Rodrigo “A,” giving only his last
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces Crime Stoppers announced a $2,000 reward on Monday in the hopes of finding the person responsible for a deadly Las Cruces shooting Police said 26-year-old Dondre Robinson was gunned down around 9 p.m. Sunday near Hagerty Road and Monte Vista Avenue in the parking area of an apartment
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VADO, New Mexico — New Mexico State Police said Saturday that they were looking for the driver of a pickup truck involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a motorcyclist earlier this week in Dona Ana County. That fatal collision happened around 2 p.m. Thursday at 10581 Alturas Street in Vado. Authorities identified the
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POTEET, Texas — A statewide Amber Alert was issued Saturday for a 14-month-old Texas boy allegedly abducted by a woman and believed to be in “grave danger.” According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, little Edgar Nataniel Jesus Collins was last seen around 10 a.m. at a mobile home in Poteet, about 30 miles
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EL PASO, Texas — A Horizon City man and a Socorro woman each charged over the past week with making separate online threats to shoot up local Walmart stores are friends and their threats appear to have been connected, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office disclosed on Friday. At a detention hearing, a federal judge
Continue Reading ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Five people were shot in southeast Albuquerque late Thursday night. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of an apartment complex According to police, an altercation appeared to have taken place and ended with the shooting. All five shooting victims were transported to the hospital, and police said their conditions ranged
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