U.S. Border Patrol agents in Alamogordo seized over $850,000 worth of methamphetamine from one vehicle at a checkpoint earlier this week, officials said Friday. Border agents were conducting a routine check on Wednesday night when they stopped a gray Saturn Vue for further inspection. Agents interviewed the driver, who later consented to a vehicle search.
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The wife of an El Paso Walmart shooting victim, who just had a Sun Metro bus station named in his honor, became the latest Friday to join a lawsuit against the retail giant alleging lax security. Arturio Benavides was shopping at the eastside store with his wife of 33 years, Patricia, when a gunman opened
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Mexican security forces aborted their capture of a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after finding themselves outgunned in a ferocious shootout with cartel henchmen that left at least eight people dead and more than 20 wounded, authorities said Friday. The gunbattle Thursday paralyzed the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, Culiacan, and
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A Las Cruces woman was jailed Friday morning on charges she stabbed her husband repeatedly during an argument that got out of control. Michelle Scott, 41, was being held without bond in the Dona Ana County Detention Center for felony aggravated battery. Police said Scott’s husband was stabbed multiple times in his torso, back and
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A pair of suspected killers from Oklahoma were captured by a fugitive task force in El Paso, authorities said Friday. Antonio Quinton Adair, 35, of Oklahoma City, is charged with murder, while Julia Anne Jones, 29, also of Oklahoma City, is charged as an accessory to murder. Authorities did not provide any further details behind
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An El Paso police officer shot and wounded a person authorities described as a “suspect” late Saturday night. The shooting happened shortly before midnight in the 3000 block of Lebanon. Police did not indicate why the person shot was considered a “suspect” — nor did they immediately provide details on what led the officer to
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An El Paso police officer was found not guilty of manslaughter Thursday afternoon in the deadly shooting of a Lower Valley man in the back in 2015. It was the second trial for Officer Mando Gomez; his first trial earlier this year ended in a mistrial after a prosecutor collapsed in court. Gomez had been
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The eldest son of “El Chapo,” the jailed notorious Mexican drug kingpin, was captured by Mexico’s military on Thursday, but then was released hours later after massive gun battles raged with the Sinaloa cartel on the streets of the northern Mexican city of Culiacan. Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told Reuters that Ovidio Guzmán López was
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A Las Cruces man was indicted by a Dona Ana County grand jury Thursday on 12 felony counts of making and possessing child pornography Raymond Pacheco is charged in the indictment with 11 counts of sexual exploitation of a child for manufacturing sexually explicit material, and one count of possession of such materials. Pacheco remains
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A Las Cruces man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened his 13-year-old son with a knife. Las Cruces police said 37-year-old Edward Baeza was upset that his wife was not home and began to ask their three children where she was in a rude manner. Shortly after, police said Baeza grabbed a knife then
Continue Reading Kaleb Scroggins, 23, was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison for a 2017 Father’s Day high-speed chase in New Mexico that led to a standoff. An Otero County jury found Scroggins guilty of eight criminal charges back on May 24. Those charges had stemmed from the events of June 18, 2017, when Scroggins shot
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Four El Paso teenagers are being charged in a weekend armed robbery of a 7-11 convenience store that resulted in a police officer shooting and wounding one of them, authorities said Wednesday. 17-year old Jorge Rangel is jailed on $200,000 bond, 17-year old Bianca Salazar is being held on $75,000 bond and 19-year old Edwin
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A former El Paso police officer is going to spend eight years in prison for a deadly hit-and-run. Roberto Garcia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of accident involving death. He was an 18-year veteran with the El Paso Police Department when he was arrested for the New Year’s Day fatality in 2018. The collision
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Luis Quesada has been named as the special agent in charge of the El Paso Field Office, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced Wednesday. This comes after El Paso’s former Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie was promoted to Chicago. Quesada joined the FBI as a special agent in 1995 and was assigned to the Miami
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Las Cruces police arrested Orlando R. Jacques, 29, Tuesday morning. Police said officers located a Chevrolet Equinox that was stolen on Oct. 3 in El Paso, near the intersection of Lohman Ave. and Nevarez St. Police said a woman was seen exiting the vehicle near the intersection and walked away. Police said the driver of
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UPDATE: Councilman Sam Morgan’s wife has now filed for divorce in the wake of domestic violence allegations, according to court records reviewed Tuesday night by ABC-7. ORIGINAL STORY: El Paso District 4 City Council Representative Sam Morgan will remain in his post, for now, following charges of domestic violence. Mayor Dee Margo said during Tuesday’s
Continue Reading Country music star Gretchen Wilson is calling on Las Cruces to boycott Hotel Encanto after she was asked to leave early Sunday morning. After performing at the Las Cruces Country Music Festival, she tweeted: “Was a guest in Las Cruces NM yest & had a blast w/ the people there. However, you should all band
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El Paso City Council unanimously passed a motion Tuesday to rename a Sun Metro bus station after a victim of the August 3 mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart. The Sun Metro transfer station near the scene of the horrific mass shooting will be called the ‘Arturo Benavides Eastside Transit Center.’ The wife of
Continue Reading A New Mexico man is facing charges after authorities say he attempted to bribe a sheriff”s deputy after being pulled over on suspicion of drunken driving stop. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Phillip Quintana was arrested early Saturday following an alleged $10,000 bribe and a promise to the deputy to “make you happier than
Continue Reading Fort Worth Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus apologized Tuesday for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson in her home by a Fort Worth officer. “I’m deeply sorry for what occurred,” Kraus said at a news conference. “Human life is a precious thing and should not have been taken from Ms. Jefferson.” “This incident has eroded the
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A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder late Monday afternoon, just hours after resigning from the force. Aaron Dean, 34, was booked into jail on a murder charge
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A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman in her home while responding to a call about an open front door acted without justification and resigned Monday before he could be fired, the police chief said. Police bodycam video showed that Aaron Dean did not identify himself as an officer
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The El Paso Police Bomb Squad converged Monday afternoon on a residential neighborhood on the city’s far east side after a suspicious package was discovered. But just over an hour later, police said they were clearing the scene after finding the owner of the package and determining that the item was “non-hazardous.” The package discovery
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A concerned neighbor called police at 2:23 a.m. Saturday to check on the woman who lived across the street because her front door was open. At 2:30 a.m., she would be dead. A white police officer shot and killed Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old black woman, through her window early Saturday in Fort Worth. Police
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One of the Walmart shooting victims has pushed out a new statement, threatening to sue police, after weeks of questions about what he claimed happened during the attack. Chris Grant was one of the victims of the Aug. 3 attack. Along with the 22 people who died, Grant was one of the 26 people shot
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A 54-year-old man was arrested late Friday on animal cruelty charges for allegedly disposing of a box of puppies at a trash dumpster in Socorro. Alejandro Hernandez was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a bond totaling $1,500, according to El Paso County Sheriff’s Office detectives. His arrest comes after deputies made
Continue Reading After being arrested and charged with domestic violence last week, El Paso City Councilman Sam Morgan was noticeably absent Friday from a community meeting he had organized. “I would like to hear what happened,” said Erna Wuolikaine, one of his constituents. A few dozen northeast El Paso residents crowded the Denny’s on Woodrow Bean with
Continue Reading A man who prosecutors say was driven by vengeance when he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family in Texas, including four children, was sentenced to death on Friday. Jurors sentenced Ronald Lee Haskell after deliberating for little more than four hours. The jury had to choose between life in prison without parole or
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Two men were hospitalized Friday with serious injuries after being shot during a fight in El Paso’s Lower Valley during the early morning hours. The shootings happened about 2:20 a.m. outside of Sudz Bar in the 7000 block of Alameda Avenue, according to El Paso police. Police said both victims were in their 40s, and
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Of the 18 deadliest mass shootings in the United States, seven mass shooters committed suicide and another five were killed by police, according to CNN. Six others, including Patrick Crusius, were taken into custody alive. But Crusius is the deadliest surviving mass shooting suspect in American history. Questions remain: Will his trial will stay in
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