LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces woman was arrested after her 3-year-old daughter tested positive for methamphetamine, police said Friday. Magaly Margarit Luna, 29, was being held without bond in the Dona Ana County Detention Center on a felony charge of negligent child abuse, although police indicated additional charges may be filed. The
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SOCORRO, New Mexico — Lou Ferrigno, the actor in the CBS television series “The Incredible Hulk,” become a sheriff’s deputy in New Mexico on Thursday evening. Socorro County Sheriff William Armijo deputized Ferrigno at a special ceremony at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Officials said Ferrigno brings decades of law enforcement experience to the sheriff’s department and will
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EL PASO, Texas — A jury deliberated about an hour late Thursday afternoon before finding an El Paso father guilty of tampering with evidence after his son allegedly murdered a man. Richard Zelonis, 55, was convicted of two counts of tampering with physical evidence in connection with the Aug. 2016 slaying of 26-year-old Devon Leatherbury,
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EL PASO, Texas – Four young El Paso children described as “missing and endangered” were safely located in Mexico and their mother was arrested on kidnapping charges, Texas authorities said Thursday. Biridiana Saenz, 28, was being held in the El Paso County Jail after being taken into custody across the border in Ciudad Juarez and turned
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EL PASO, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier charged in a drunk driving death has been released from jail on bond as state officials Thursday confirmed the bar where he apparently drank prior to the crash is also under investigation. Downtown jail records show Ivan Romo, 27, a U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bliss,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office has been cleaning house, doing a full inventory of every piece of equipment they have. It has taken 12 months and needed 4 people to do the job. But even after all this work, they are still only 80% done. “It takes management and
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EL PASO, Texas — A memorial service was held Wednesday for Bulder, the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois U.S. Border Patrol canine, who was killed during a shootout in northeast El Paso in December. Bulder was with agents while they were attempting to execute a search and arrest warrant to a 62-year-old man who was charged with illegal possession
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women was executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage alive. John Gardner, 64, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the January 2005 slaying of Tammy Gardner.
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HOUSTON, Texas — A 16-year-old student mistakenly shot his friend in their Houston-area high school’s ROTC room before fleeing and being arrested several hours later, officials said Wednesday. The two were in a room at Bellaire High School with four other students but no adult Tuesday afternoon when the 16-year-old took a semi-automatic pistol out
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso area couple has been arrested after police allege they broke into numerous vehicles, stealing credit cards to go on a spending spree. The pair, identified by police Wednesday as 19-year-old Olympia Johnson of El Paso and 35-year-old Luis Miguel Salcido of Canutillo, are facing multiple charges each of
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Two people were gunned down over the weekend at a Juarez bar. On Tuesday, it was disclosed that one of the victims was a U.S. citizen living in El Paso. The deadly shootings happened at the San Martin Cantina on Saturday night. El Pasoan Mario Torres was among the two killed,
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EL PASO, Texas — Allegations of El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies gambling using betting boards on county time surfaced Tuesday. Former deputy Joe Kluge initially made the claim in a social media post that Sheriff Richard Wiles was made aware of the gambling and turned a blind eye to it. He also alleged in an interview
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BELLAIRE, Texas — A male student was shot and killed Tuesday at a high school in east Texas and the alleged shooter was taken into custody about four hours later after a police search, local officials told ABC affiliate KTRK. KTRK said the accused shooter was also a student at Bellaire High School, located in
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(Editor’s note: To search for sex offenders in your region. you can visit the New Mexico Department of Public Safety’s Sex Offender Registry at this link.) SANTA FE, New Mexico — Legislators will consider changes to the state’s sex offender registration policies in response to revelations that deceased financier and New Mexico ranch owner Jeffrey
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EL PASO, Texas – Three victims, two suspected drunk drivers, one family. Just weeks after a mother and child died in a suspected drunk driving crash on Loop 375, the Garcia family lost another member to an alleged drunk driver. “I don’t think words can really explain it,” said Debby Garcia. On December 7th, police
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EL PASO, Texas — A pair of Sunday morning stabbings in El Paso left four people wounded, authorities said. The first incident happened just after 8 a.m. in the 400 block of Loma Grande. Two victims were taken to hospitals, but there was no word on the extent of their wounds. The second case happened
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Las Cruces City Council spent several hours on Monday talking through a work session and presentation on the possibility of marijuana legalization in New Mexico. The discussion was prompted by Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham’s announced plans to push cannabis legalization during the upcoming legislative session. At the center of all
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EL PASO, Texas — A 34-year-old registered sex offender was being held Monday in the downtown jail on $300,000 bond, accused by El Paso police of possessing thousands of images of child pornography. Police said the arrest of Chad Michael Redenius came after detectives said they discovered several thousand illegal images during a search of
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obador visited Juarez on Friday, holding a press conference at a military garrison, discussing how security is an ongoing problem in the state of Chihuahua after Juarez had its fourth deadliest year in history. Crime data shows femicide – the systemic killings of women because of
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso International Airport is partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Blue Lightning Initiative to help stop human trafficking. The Blue Lightning Initiative is under DHS’s Blue Campaign which raises awareness of human trafficking. DHS, along with the FBI, Department of Transportation and U.S. Customs and
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EL PASO, Texas — Police warned Friday of another round of counterfeit cash being passed around El Paso. This time, authorities said the victims of the fake currency have been numerous food delivery drivers on the city’s east side. “Food deliveries are ordered to random addresses by persons using spoofed phone numbers,” explained Sgt. Enrique
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives committee on Mass Violence Prevention and Community Safety heard public testimony Thursday at UTEP from people directly impacted by the mass shooting that occurred in El Paso on Aug. 3 as they looked to try to prevent future incidents. At the hearing, doctors also spoke to
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Many sheriffs across the state are opposed to a proposal from the governor and Democratic lawmakers that would allow police or relatives to ask a court to temporarily take away guns from people who might hurt themselves or others, a New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association official said Thursday. Sierra County Sheriff
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ROSWELL, New Mexico — An arrest warrant for first-degree murder has been issued for the father of a boy who is the subject of an Amber Alert, authorities confirmed Thursday. Police in New Mexico remain on the hunt for the 3-year-old boy who went missing after his mother dead in their Roswell home. An Amber Alert was issued
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Damika Childs was given 20 years in prison for her role in a murder when she appeared for sentencing Wednesday at the Third Judicial District Courthouse in Las Cruces. She had previously pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors to charges including conspiracy to commit kidnapping, aggravated arson, and aggravated
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A west Texas man accused of putting his girlfriend’s 10-month-old daughter in a backpack and leaving her in a car trunk for five hours was charged Wednesday with capital murder. Trevor Marquis Rowe of Lubbock was arrested Tuesday night for the death of Marion Jester-Montoya. He was jailed in Lubbock County
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EL PASO, Texas — Police released video Wednesday showing an unidentified man sought for questioning as a potential witness in the September unsolved murder of a local El Paso musician and Cincinnati neighborhood fixture. Sgt. Javier Sambrano said the “security video shows a man that was by the victim, and could have critical information on
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HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — An off-duty Houston police officer shot a would-be robber who was robbing a customer service clerk at gunpoint in a suburban Walmart department store on Wednesday, officials said. The incident happened about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the store just outside Humble, 14 miles (23 kilometers) northeast of Houston. A Harris County
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was joined by several lawmakers in Las Cruces Wednesday as they announced plans to introduce a so-called ‘red flag’ gun law for the upcoming New Mexico legislative session. Speaking at the Law Enforcement Museum at the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office, the governor said the proposed
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EL PASO, Texas — Exactly one month ago, Alberto Cuellar’s life was turned upside-down. A suspected drunk driver going the wrong way on Loop 375 slammed into his car, killing his girlfriend of two years, Elide Yvonne Garcia, and her son, Jose Luis Wences, 6. Cuellar is still hospitalized at UMC, but he wanted to
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