EL PASO, Texas — A 42-year-old man was struck by a car and killed Friday night in a hit-and-run along a busy street in northeast El Paso, police said Saturday. The pedestrian who died was identified by police as William Munoz of El Paso. Investigators indicated he was walking along the street about 6:45 p.m.
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EL PASO, Texas — A stabbing in El Paso’s Upper Valley sent one man to the hospital Saturday night with serious injuries, authorities said. The stabbing happened near Doniphan Drive and Coates Drive, according to a police dispatch supervisor. No further details were immediately available.
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SANTA FE, Texas — A teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 was able to buy more than 100 rounds of ammunition online because his age was not verified, according to a lawsuit alleging that the website involved broke federal law. Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a 17-year-old junior at
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EL PASO, Texas — Author Mike Tapia has written his second book, Gangs of the El Paso-Juarez Borderland. Tapia is an associate professor of criminology at New Mexico State University. “Gangs of the El Paso–Juárez Borderland: A History” examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. The
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces High School was on lockdown for a portion of Friday afternoon due to a bomb threat, officials said. A school district spokeswoman said a call came in at 2:18 p.m. saying there was a bomb at the high school. Even though officials said the threat was not believed
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 has learned the association representing El Paso police officers is being investigated by the Texas Rangers. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed Thursday that the Texas Rangers are conducting an investigation of the El Paso Municipal Police Officers Association. DPS said it is an ongoing investigation and as a
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EL PASO, Texas — A SWAT standoff ended late Wednesday night with the arrest of an armed man who had been holed-up in an east El Paso apartment building after he allegedly slashed another man following what was said to be dispute over a dog, according to police and witnesses. Jonathan Macias, 40, was being
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A woman was dead and a man injured following gunfire Wednesday night at the Abraham Gonzalez International Airport in Juarez, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, but no arrests had yet been made. The shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday in a parking lot outside the airport and the gunmen were chased off by National
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A man who led a Texas state trooper on a high-speed chase, was able to briefly escape after being handcuffed. The Texas Department of Public Safety said a trooper tried to pullover 31-year-old Shem Garcia Prieto for a traffic violation late Wednesday night, but Prieto drove off. Eventually the trooper
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A federal jury in Las Cruces has convicted a former Sunland Park militia leader of impersonating a U.S. Border Patrol agent last year. Prosecutors said Wednesday that 45-year-old James Christopher Benvie was found guilty of two counts of false personation of an agent and faces up to three years in prison on each
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County District Attorney’s office confirmed to ABC-7 on Wednesday that the wife of El Paso city Rep. Sam Morgan is requesting to drop the domestic violence charges against him. Back on Oct. 4, police were called out to Morgan’s home on a family violence incident. Police said Morgan’s
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PORT ARTHUR, Texas — A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video last August of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson, 24, also was sentenced to an additional
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EL PASO, Texas — A 45-year-old Horizon man has been arrested after El Paso police allegedly caught him with several hundred child porn images, authorities said Wednesday. Rene Barriguete Chaparro was taken into custody on Tuesday at his home in Horizon City and charged with possession of child pornography. Police said they were tipped by
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Two young spary-painting vandals were responsible for thousands of dollars worth of property damage over the weekend in Las Cruces, police said Monday. “It takes a lot of muscle to be wiping all this paint off,” said Francisco Caro, who spent his Monday afternoon wiping silver spray paint off his
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces judge denied a prosecutor’s request to delay a trial after a suspected arson case in Sunland Park which claimed the life of an eight-year-old girl. “I hope God helps us and give us justice for Marissa,” said Rita Perez, her aunt. In December 2018, the trailer home
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A teenager was shot and wounded Monday night at a Las Cruces community center and police continued searching Tuesday for his attacker. The shooting took place about 9 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of the Henry Benavidez Center at 1045 McClure Road. Officers said the victim was conscious and
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(Editor’s note: The name of the bar was removed from this article after police later indicated that the victim’s gunshot wound was believed to be self-inflicted.) EL PASO, Texas — A gunshot victim showed up at the Del Sol Medical Center on Monday night, claiming to have been injured outside a North Loop bar. Police
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces police officer had a suspect in what police called a “vascular neck restraint” moments before his death over the weekend, according to court documents obtained Monday by ABC-7. That type of neck restraint is banned by many police departments across the nation, an expert told the Associated
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — The mother of an 8-year-old who was killed in a mobile home fire back in 2018 is asking a judge not to release a couple accused of starting the fire. Jocelyn Ontiveros and Juan Carlos Holguin were arrested in connection to the fire which happened in December of 2018 that
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EL PASO, Texas — An armed man, involved in what police described as a “family violence incident” surrendered to SWAT officers after being inside an Upper Valley home for several hours Monday. The situation unfolded at 997 White River Place. A police detective said 25-year-old Pedro Romero broke into the home about 7 a.m. and
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man who fled from police on Saturday morning died after being Tasered by authorities, according to state police. At about 2:30 a.m., a Las Cruces police officer pulled over a blue GMC pickup with expired insurance on 3 Crosses Avenue, near North Alameda, according to state police.
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EL PASO, Texas — A strip club in east El Paso County has been shut down following a raid by state troopers and other law enforcement agencies that found a variety of illegal drugs, as well as an unlicensed bar operating inside, authorities said Saturday. One employee was arrested during Friday night’s raid at the
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EL PASO, Texas — No one has been charged or prosecuted after a gun scare paralyzed El Paso High School a month ago, ABC-7 has learned. Police on Jan. 30 detained three teenagers with a BB gun after searching room by room in a locked down El Paso High following reports of gunmen at the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man has been arrested after allegedly firing a sawed-off shotgun during what police described as a road-rage incident earlier this week. Brenden Chavez was charged with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of shooting at or from a motor vehicle. Both
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Real Fit Fam El Paso (@fitfamelpaso) on Feb 28, 2020 at 8:16am PST EL PASO, Texas — A man in an SUV led Texas state troopers on a chase Friday morning in the Americas and North Loop areas of El Paso before a trooper shot
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EL PASO, Texas — Police announced Friday the arrest of a second man on murder charges stemming from a botched drug deal last week at a home in far east El Paso. Police gang unit and SWAT officers took 18-year-old Joseph Banda into custody outside his home on Thursday afternoon, officials said. He was being
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is seizing more meth in the El Paso area compared to years past. The agency says that stopping the flow of the drug in the city is key to halting the spread nationwide. 2019 DEA data shows that agents in the western part of Texas and
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EL PASO, Texas — Two students were hurt, one of whom suffered serious wounds, in a stabbing attack at Americas High School on Thursday afternoon and police later arrested another student for the attack after he posted an apparent admission on social media. Police and 911 dispatchers said the seriously wounded victim was transported to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A candlelight vigil was taking place Thursday evening as family and friends remembered a teenage girl who was murdered 15 years ago. (You can watch the entire vigil in the video player above.) Ashley Wax, who was just 15 at the time, was shot and killed by her then-16-year-old boyfriend
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The employee who stormed the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee and his five co-workers who were killed when he opened fire have been identified. The victims were Jesus Valle, 33; Gennady Levshetz, 51; Trevor Wetselaar, 33; Dana Walk, 58; and Dale Hudson, 50, Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales told reporters. They were
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