An El Paso church pastor was arrested Thursday on charges that he supplied alcohol to a 16-year-old girl. 31-year-old Carlos Alberto Cortez was being held on $3,000 bond in the El Paso County Detention Facility following his arrest on one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor. Detectives identified Cortez as the “pastor of a
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El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said Thursday they were looking for a vehicle that struck and killed a Fort Bliss soldier who was walking along Interstate 10 near Horizon last weekend. Authorities described the vehicle as a dark-colored SUV or minivan, possibly a Dodge Caravan, with front end damage and perhaps windshield damage too. Investigators
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Victims of the Aug. 3 Walmart mass shooting can now begin to apply for financial assistance from One Fund El Paso. Eligible victims may apply for funds at nationalcompassionfund.org, or call 1-855-4VICTIM (855-484-2846). Nov. 8 will be the last day to apply. Applicants must have been inside either the Cielo Vista Walmart or Cielo Vista
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An El Paso judge ordered a Lower Valley massage parlor closed Tuesday after authorities alleged a pattern of illegal sexual activity and potential human trafficking at the facility over the past year. Judge Sergio Enriquez issued the order shutting down YoYo Body Works at 800 N. Zaragoza Road effective immediately. During a months-long investigation by
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent, whose wife heads the El Paso sector of the agency, is facing charges he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a junior agent in Arizona, according to police records obtained by ABC-7. (Editor’s note: You can read the records for yourself at the end of this article.) Gus Zamora, 51, was allowed
Continue Reading The former Dallas police officer sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of her neighbor will be housed in the same prison as the woman who killed Grammy Award winning singer Selena. Amber Guyger, 31, will be housed at the Mountain View facility in Texas, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman
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El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies issued a public call for help Monday to identify a man who disposed of a box of puppies at a trash dumpster in Socorro. Deputies released an image of the man from surveillance video. Detectives said surveillance video also shows the man removing a box containing six puppies from a
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A 79-year-old inmate who says he killed 93 women as he moved around the country for nearly four decades offered his confession to a Texas Ranger. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Ranger James Holland tells how he got Samuel Little — who the FBI on Monday said is the most prolific
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A witness in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor has been killed in a shooting, the Dallas Morning News reported, citing authorities. The newspaper reported that authorities said Joshua Brown was shot and killed Friday in Dallas. The 28-year-old Brown lived in the same apartment complex
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(Editor’s note: Scroll down to the end of this story to watch the video.) A man has taken to social media in the hopes of finding the driver of a car who lost control, went off the road and smashed into a wall on his property near Chaparral. A security camera captured video of the
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A union for Texas troopers is suing the state over a new policy that limits the size officers’ waistlines. The Department of Public Safety now requires male officers’ waistlines to be slimmer than 40 inches. Women’s waists must measure 35 inches or less. While troopers have always been subject to fitness standards, the president of
Continue Reading MGM Resorts International and the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting reached a landmark settlement worth between $735 million and $800 million, depending on the number of claimants, MGM said in a statement Thursday. MGM said the settlement is not an admission of liability in the October 1, 2017 mass shooting that left 58
Continue Reading A mounted Galveston police officer said “this is gonna look really bad” shortly before he escorted a handcuffed man down the street by a line. The comment was heard on body camera footage released Wednesday by the Galveston Police Department at the end of an administrative review of the controversial August 3 arrest. The department
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A missing Amarillo baby who was believed to be in danger has now been found. The Amarillo Police Department said officers located 3-month-old Jamila Franklin and 24-year-old Aliyah Moore. Police say the child is safe and unharmed. A statewide Amber Alert had been issued for baby Jamila, who went missing early Thursday morning. Jamila was
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Two months after a horrific massacre at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, accused gunman Patrick Crusius now has a date set to be arraigned in court. There’s been no sight of the 21-year-old defendant since he was arrested near the Walmart store where 22 people were killed on Aug. 3. Crusius’s arraignment –
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Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 10 years in prison for the fatal 2018 killing of an innocent man she shot when she mistakenly entered his apartment believing it was her own. But in a remarkable act of kindness, the brother of the victim took the witness stand and
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(Editor’s note: Click here to WATCH the moment the brother of murder victim Botham Jean hugs and forgives ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger after she was sentenced to 10-years in prison.) A former Dallas police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing her black neighbor in his apartment, which she said she
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(Editor’s note: Click here to WATCH the moment the brother of murder victim Botham Jean hugs and forgives ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger after she was sentenced to 10-years in prison.) Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger insisted on the witness stand that her shooting of an unarmed black man in his apartment was “not about
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The Ysleta Independent School District is hosting active-shooter training sessions in an effort to help the community be better prepared for emergency situations. The Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event (CRASE) trainings will be in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies. The sessions are free and open to the public. All sessions begin at 5:30
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A Dallas resident who fatally shot a backyard intruder and then went back to bed has been charged with murder, according to police. The homeowner, James Michael Meyer, said he didn’t know whether he struck the person, so he went back to bed and didn’t call police, according to an arrest warrant released by the
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A white former Dallas police officer who said she fatally shot her unarmed, black neighbor after mistaking his apartment for her own was found guilty of murder on Tuesday. A jury reached the verdict in Amber Guyger’s high-profile trial for the killing of Botham Jean after six days of witness testimony but just a handful
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Twenty different 911 calls portrayed the fear and panic in a Doña Ana County neighborhood before a deputy responding shot and critically wounded a man with a gun last week. “Did you hear that?” one caller asked the operator after several gunshots played out in the recording. It was after 11 p.m. on Sept. 24th
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El Paso Police said Monday they had arrested a man who was allegedly drunk when he was involved in a car crash that killed an El Paso County corrections officer. Police booked 25-year-old Erick Angel Ortiz into the El Paso County Detention Facility. Police said after the crash that Ortiz was facing a charge of
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The Socorro Independent School District announced plans Monday to hire 23 new police officers in the coming months, with the goal of assigning them to the district’s elementary schools. The board of trustees voted last week to approve a recommendation from Superintendent Jose Espinoza to update the job description for the district’s police officers. The
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Residents of a Las Cruces trailer park are shocked and disturbed that a neighbor has been charged with possessing and making child pornography. “It’s very sad,” said Marissa Gomez in Spanish, who lives with her three young children across the street from where 28-year-old Raymond Pacheco was arrested last week. Las Cruces police have charged
Continue Reading A 16-year-old boy was killed and three others were injured in a two-car crash late Saturday night in west El Paso. Police on Monday identified the deceased as Jose Roberto Prieto. He was a junior at Coronado High School, according to the El Paso Independent School District, and students were invited to wear white on
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Just beyond the public August 3 memorial, two investigators were allowed into the Cielo Vista Walmart Sunday. They work for a law firm suing the store on behalf of injured victims and are looking to help build a case. The lawsuit was brought forward in early September by Jessica and Memo Garcia, two surviving victims
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A mother in distress called police. Her son had refused to take his mental-health medication. He was delusional about a government conspiracy against him and had threatened to end his own in life in a shootout with police. When Amarillo police officers arrived at her home the night of February 7, 2011, they found what
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The first week is over in the trial of an off-duty police officer charged with killing a man in his own apartment in Dallas, and more details have emerged in the case that made headlines and sparked outrage nationwide. Amber Guyger is accused of entering the apartment of 26-year-old Botham Jean last year and fatally
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A sheriff’s deputy described as “a trailblazer” because he was the first Sikh deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop near Houston. Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was pronounced dead at Memorial Hermann Hospital after the 12:45 p.m. Friday
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