NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 8-year-old girl and her mother from New Braunfels, a city near San Antonio. A statewide Amber Alert was issued Saturday morning after the disappearance of Kiley Marie Diaz, 8, and her mother, Alyssa Jeanice Lopez, 29. Both were last seen
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday announced New Mexico now has 495 coronavirus cases and added that 10 people have died. The governor said New Mexico’s demographics, with an aging population, pose a challenge which will require the state to work all the harder to contain the virus. Confirmed Covid-19
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EL PASO, Texas — A resident at a halfway house for state prison parolees in far east El Paso County has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and over 50 other residents at the facility are now being quarantined. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice facility called the El Paso Transitional Center is located at 1650
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EL PASO, Texas — Police said Thursday they were investigating an apparent case of vandalism involving spray-painted swastikas in a northeast El Paso neighborhood. Police said the vandalism spree happened in the area of Titanic Avenue and El Moro Road. Photos in the below social media post that went viral show swastikas painted on garage
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HOUSTON, Texas — A third scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate was delayed Wednesday following the spread of the coronavirus in the state. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a 60-day delay of Fabian Hernandez’s scheduled April 23 execution. Unlike the two executions that were ordered delayed last month because of COVID-19,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – With thousands of Las Cruces residents asked to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Las Cruces Police Department said it is bracing for an increase in domestic violence calls. “As you can imagine, with the increase of people being required to stay home, is an increase
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EL PASO, Texas – Some of El Paso’s top law enforcement officials are busy setting up new jail protocols to keep the local inmate population safe from coronavirus infection. As of now, El Paso’s inmate population of 2,100 has no Covid-19 infections. A single test has been carried out on an inmate but it has
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 16-year-old wrestling champion helped stop a kidnapping and assault near Las Cruces by pinning a man to the ground until deputies arrived, authorities said, and surveillance video shows the terrifying incident. (You can watch it in the video player above.) Mayfield High School student Canaan Bower is being lauded
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EL PASO, Texas — A 19-year-old was shot and wounded Saturday in a far east El Paso neighborhood. The teen was shot in the 2200 block of Hanna Leigh Street around noon. Police said the victim was taken by car from the shooting scene to Providence East hospital with non-life threatening injuries. There was no
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The family of a boy is suing a police officer who mistakenly fired his weapon inside a Las Cruces middle school and nearly hit the student. The family recently filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Officer Francisco Estrada and the Las Cruces Police Department, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports.
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EL PASO, Texas — Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a wanted felon after the man opened fire on them with an assault weapon in far east El Paso on Tuesday evening, authorities said. It happened on Greg Drive and Ascencion Street near Mountain View High School. Authorities told ABC-7 that a 31-year-old man wanted for
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RICHMOND, Texas — A counselor who works in a Texas prison has tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first time the disease caused by the novel coronavirus has been reported in the country’s largest prison system. Meanwhile, San Antonio-area officials reported their first COVID-19-related death and Dallas County health officials reported that county’s third and
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso County courthouse and all county facilities will be shut down to the public effective Monday until further notice. The announcement was made late Sunday night. The measure, according to a statement from El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, is to further efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State Police have confirmed that Las Cruces police used a controversial vascular neck restraint and a stun gun on a suspect before he died. A state police report released this week said Officer Christopher Smelser used a vascular neck restraint on Antonio Valenzuela, who fled from a traffic
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EL PASO, Texas — Police departments in the Borderland region are shifting resources and adjusting priorities in an attempt to maintain public safety while doing their best to prevent infection among officers and the citizens they serve during the coronavirus pandemic. The El Paso Police Department announced these changes to their “response protocol” on Friday:
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EL PASO, Texas — A standoff Friday evening between police and a suspicious armed man in northeast El Paso ended with the gunman suffering a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound, authorities said. A police spokesperson did not immediately know the condition of the man. A SWAT team had responded around 5:30 p.m. to the 5700 block of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The New Mexico Supreme Court is suspending all criminal jury trials until April 30, limiting court rooms and hallways to no more then 25 people, and is giving people more time to pay fines. These are just some of the precautionary measures they’re taking to keep people coming in and
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Council of Judges late Monday afternoon announced a halt to all jury trials in the county’s district courts and suspended jury duty until further notice in an effort to help combat coronavirus. The Council said the district court clerk’s office would be operating with a skeletal staff. As
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HOUSTON, Texas — The outbreak of the novel coronavirus prompted the top Texas criminal appeals court on Monday to stay for 60 days the scheduled execution of a man condemned for killing his family. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected all grounds of John William Hummel’s appeal but said it would postpone the scheduled
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MIDLAND, Texas — A man who allegedly stabbed four people, including two children, at a Midland Sam’s Club was charged with attempted capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, officials said Sunday. Jose Gomez, 19, was arrested following the stabbings that happened around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. As of Sunday afternoon, no bond had
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EL PASO, Texas — A two-car crash involving a police car shut down a busy east El Paso intersection for several hours Thursday evening as traffic investigators tried piecing together what happened. The collision occurred around 5 p.m. at George Dieter and Edgemere. Emergency dispatchers said the two officers in the police vehicle weren’t hurt,
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EL PASO, Texas — A veteran El Paso police officer shot and wounded a suspicious man with a gun who was wandering the grounds of Riverside High School, authorities said. The officer-involved shooting happened shortly after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday near Hockney and Midway in the Lower Valley. That’s where police said they tracked a 23-year-old
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police detectives are researching dozens of new tips related to the massacre at the city’s bowling alley more than 30 years ago. It’s been a month since they announced a $30,000 reward for information leading to the suspects behind the unsolved crime — the largest of its kind
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – In a trial in an intense and emotional case where two brothers were once both suspects, one testified against another on Tuesday afternoon. “Who shot the firearm?” asked prosecutor Richard Jacquez. “My brother,” responded Alonzo Barrera. Both Alonzo Barrera and Julio Gutierrez-Barrera were arrested in 2017 in connection with a drive-by
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EL PASO, Texas — A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in the trial for a 41-year-old man charged with two counts of attempted capital murder for allegedly ambushing two El Paso police officers. The decision came on the second day of the trial for Ricardo Cereceres, And there was no immediate word on why the
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EL PASO, Texas — Thousands of El Paso residents were exposed to a shocking scene of hate speech for at least 5 days. Motorists noticed a slew of racist slurs that had been prominently spray painted on the side of a cement factory in west El Paso. The racist, anti-Semitic and anti-police phrases could easily
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — A southern New Mexico man is facing charges after authorities say he squeezed his infant stepdaughter so hard he broke three of her ribs. Jonathan Salcedo, 26, was arrested last week and charged with two felony counts of child abuse that results in great bodily harm, intentional or reckless, the Alamogordo Daily
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The trial began Monday afternoon for the Las Cruces man accused of a drive-by shooting that killed a 14-year-old girl almost three years ago. Julio Gutierrez-Barrera is standing trial in connection with the shooting that killed 14-year-old Jocelyn Trujillo in July 2017. At the time of his arrest, he was 20
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EL PASO, Texas — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing what turned out to be an “unfounded threat” targeting the Monster Jam truck event at the Sun Bowl on Sunday afternoon, officials said. A UTEP spokesman described it as a “public safety threat” that resulted in the stadium being checked by UTEP police before
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