EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas DPS says it conducted a human trafficking operation this past week. 11 men were arrested for solicitation of prostitution, which is a state felony. Texas DPS says several agencies assisted in the operation, including Homeland Security Investigations, El Paso Police, United States Army, and the District Attorney’s Office for
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Fire dispatch is telling ABC-7 that one person was sent to the hospital with serious injuries after a crash involving a motorcycle in Central El Paso. The crash happened this evening on Piedras at McKinley around 6:30 p.m. Stick with ABC-7 for updates.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Carlos Salinas III, 20, for physically assaulting a person on Nonap Road in Sparks, Texas, on Sunday. Salinas is currently on parole for a previous murder conviction, according to the Sheriff’s Office. When deputies arrived at the scene on Nonap Road, they found the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An inmate died at the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility on Friday. El Paso County Sheriff Oscar Ugarte announced the news of Jonathan Rizzo’s death today. He says that detention officers found Rizzo unresponsive inside of his cell Friday afternoon. The officers tried to help Rizzo and emergency crews
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Approximately 1,000 people are without power in Central and South-Central El Paso at the moment. The El Paso Electric Outage map shows the outage started earlier today. The outage map lists the estimated fix time as 5:45 p.m.
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HORIZON CITY, Texas (KVIA) — Officials charged Lorenzo Davila, 68, and accused him of abducting a woman and taking her out to his home in a desert area near Horizon City. Officials say that at the home, Davila assaulted the woman after she refused his sexual advances. The woman was later able to escape and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Fire Department crews put out a fire on North Cotton this morning. A building near the intersection of North Cotton and East Wyoming caught fire around 10:21 a.m. Crews classified the fire as severe. No one was reported injured. The crews got the fire under control within about
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Charles Lee Lipscomb III, 47, for animal cruelty after a video surfaced of the alleged abuse. Deputies got a report bringing the video to their attention on August 1. The video had been taken the year before, officials say. The deputies quickly identified
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Crime Stoppers of El Paso is seeking information on the whereabouts of Melanie Christine Cuellar, 28. Authorities are seeking Cuellar on suspicion of Collision Involving Death. They did not provide any other details on this alleged crime. Crime Stoppers put out a poster describing Cuellar as 4’11” and 140 pounds
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police are looking for a car that was involved in a crash near I-10 West after the Raynolds off-ramp on July 26, 2025. Police say the crash happened around 10:42 PM. Police say that the car is possibly a Dodge with visible left rear corner damage. Police released
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Fire Marshal Investigators have determined that Thursday’s house fire in northeast El Paso was caused by careless smoking. Investigators say that a medical oxygen tank caused an oxygen-enriched environment in one of the bedrooms, and that contributed to the fire as well. The El Paso Fire Department
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A house on the 14000 block of Rainbow Point Drive in Far East El Paso caught fire this morning. The call came in at 8:57 AM. The house is located near the intersection of Pebble Hills Boulevard and North Zaragoza Road. El Paso Fire Department crews classified the severity of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Las Cruces Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit, Metro Narcotics and agents from the FBI and ATF arrested two teenagers and seized 10 guns Thursday. Officers were investigating the two teens, ages 16 and 17, for suspected gang activity. Officials are not publicly identifying the pair due to their ages.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Sheriff deputies arrested Jose Blanco, 28, and Krystal Zavala, 35, for alleged illegal dumping in Sparks, Texas. Deputies got a call about two people illegally discarding about 12.9 cubic feet of trash from a side job onto private property located near the intersection of Bret Harte Drive and
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Update: During today’s news conference, Las Cruces Police Department officials released body camera footage of the officer-involved shooting. Watch some of that body camera video above. Watch the Las Cruces Police Department’s news conference regarding the officer-involved shooting below: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces Police arrested Dominic Gage Martinez, 21, after the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police charged Andrew Maxwell with reckless driving after a crash on Airway last month. Police officials just posted news of the arrest on social media, along with a video of Maxwell’s alleged reckless driving. View this post on Instagram A post shared by El Paso Police Department (@eppolice)
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HOMESTEAD MEADOWS NORTH, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso man allegedly tried to run away from deputies while he was handcuffed. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office just released video of the attempt. Deputies were detaining Edgar Ivan Soto, 34, Tuesday on an active criminal warrant issued by the El Paso Police Department. After they
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — One person suffered serious injuries after a rollover on I-10 at Geronimo in Central El Paso. The call came in at 10:13 AM, according to first responders. They say that one person suffered serious injuries. Emergency crews rushed the person to the hospital. CRASH 🚨 ALERT‼️I-10 East @ Airway, Mile
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso Police officer was bitten by a dog while responding to a domestic violence call. The officer fired at the dog, killing it. This happened July 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM on the 800 block of Joe Kennedy Way in the Lower Valley. The officer was called out
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A crash near the intersection of Gateway South and Hercules seriously injured two people this morning. First responders say the crash happened just after 11:33 AM in the northeast. Two cars were involved in the crash. Two people suffered life-threatening injuries and two people suffered minor injuries.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Police just identified the motorcyclist killed in a crash near the intersection of Pebble Hills and Joe Battle late Thursday night at Eric Berry, 45. Special Traffic Investigators say Berry was going west on Pebble Hills when he was unable to control his speed at a roundabout. They say Berry
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CNN By Zoe Sottile, John Miller, Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Find the latest updates on the midtown Manhattan shooting here. A gunman is believed to be dead after shooting at least one New York Police Department officer and two civilians near a corporate office building in midtown Manhattan Monday evening, multiple law
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Update (5:38 PM): The El Paso District Attorney’s Office says that the jury found the crime was committed under the immediate influence of sudden passion. This afternoon the jury sentenced Linwood Smith to 20 years in a state prison facility and a $10,000 fine. Earlier this week, he was convicted of murdering his wife, Kerica
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) says that residences and businesses in the area between Boy Scout Lane from Futurity Drive to Frontera Road and San Gabriel Drive from Frontera Road south to Futurity Drive is experiencing a water outage. The outage is due to a water main
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff deputies arrested Rafael Borruel after officials say he got pulled over for an alleged DWI, then ran away from officers. This happened Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at approximately 9:40 AM on the 12600 block of Montana Avenue. Deputies initially pulled Borruel over for a defective front
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Fire Department crews put out a fire at BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse this morning. The fire started just before 10 AM and the crews put it out in 20 minutes. No one was reported injured. The Health Department and Fire Investigators are now going to the restaurant to
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ByEmily Shapiro July 25, 2025, 7:01 AM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two people were shot at a student housing complex at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque early Friday and the suspect remains at large “and may still be on campus,” the university said. One victim was killed and the other has non-life-threatening injuries, the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Investigators just identified the woman killed while crossing Alameda this weekend as Maria Lopez, 77. Investigators have also found the car that allegedly hit and killed Lopez. Police officials say Lopez was crossing the street when the SUV hit her and kept driving. Lopez died at the scene. “Anyone with
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Detectives arrested Antonio Chavez, 56, and charged him with Theft of Property (under $30,000) on Monday. Deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office booked Chavez into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $5,000 bond. Detectives started looking into Chavez’s business practices “after an elderly victim reported hiring
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A Las Cruces jury has convicted Alan Duane Dodson of five counts of Criminal Sexual Penetration in the First Degree and one count in the Second Degree. Dodson was being retried on the charges. The victim was 10 years old when the abuse started, according to prosecutors. Sentencing is
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