EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — One man has been rushed to the hospital after being stabbed Sunday afternoon. El Paso Police were called out to 7015 Alameda, near a permanently closed Goodwill store. The man’s injuries are considered non-life threatening, and has been taken to a nearby hospital by first responders. Police are reporting that
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Update (March 4, 2025): Court records show that Balderrama’s next status hearing is scheduled for March 6, 2025. Update (October 2, 2024): Balderrama remains in jail on a $1,000,000 bond. A Daubert Hearing, where the judge will review prospective expert testimony before trial, is scheduled for November 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM. EL PASO, Texas
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UPDATE – A subject is now in custody after El Paso Police responded to a barricaded subject in downtown El Paso. A spokesman for the police department told ABC-7 that an officer recognized a suspect in a recent aggravated assault. The man then barricaded himself inside an apartment. El Paso Police stated there are more
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Update (Sept. 2, 2026): Williams received a life sentence for the shooting in July 2025. John received a 35-year sentence in September 2026, according to the 34th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Update (March 4, 2025): Williams’ jury trial date was rescheduled to July 18, 2025, according to court records. John’s jury trial is now set
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested 45-year-old Roswell resident Jose Saldivar on a felony count of “Smuggling Illegal Aliens,” according to jail records. The U.S. Department of Justice defines this charge as when a suspect knows “that a person is an alien, [and] brings to or attempts to bring [that
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — New Mexico law enforcement officers charged 38-year-old Zachary Tarin with one count of felony exploitation of a child. Court documents state officers showed up to Tarin’s home with a search warrant on March 17, 2022, suspecting him of having child pornography on his cell phone. Officers report watching Tarin
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — 47-year-old Bobby Charles Crawford, the man involved in a June officer-involved shooting, is now in law enforcement custody in New Mexico. The shooting happened on the East Mesa on June 21, 2023 when New Mexico State Police and Las Cruces Police Department officers tried to perform a traffic stop.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies took 48-yera-old Robert Holguin into custody on an active criminal warrant for Indecent Assault and Indecency with Child Sexual Contact (Fondling). Deputies found Holguin on the 900 block of Orndorff Drive in El Paso’s Lower Valley and booked him into the El Paso County Jail
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Update: Court documents state the alleged crime happened on March 5, 2022. Investigators used surveillance video from Police Headquarters to cross-reference witness testimony. A woman driving behind Menchaca saw him hit the first car and followed him, getting photos of Menchaca and the paper license plates on his car. She also saw him momentarily get
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Rosa Ortega, a Las Cruces resident, says she was attacked by a man in broad daylight, while walking to her neighborhood grocery store. She says the attack happened Sunday, July 9, around 10 a.m. Ortega has lived in the area off Valley Drive for 55 years. She says she
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Saturday, a daycare worker in Juarez was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a minor back in June. Naomy Yamile R.P. was arrested and booked at the Women’s Social Reintegration Center number 2 in Juarez. On Wednesday, César Gustavo Jáuregui Moreno, Chihuahua’s Attorney General, announced in a news conference that he
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Update: Officials confirm with ABC-7 that a woman died at University Medical Center as a result of her injuries. Another person, a man, died at the scene. Police have not given any information on the accused shooter. ABC-7 is working to learn more. Crimes Against Persons detectives continue to investigate. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) —
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso Police Officer is charged with a domestic abuse charge. Joshua Anthony Gallardo is accused of trying to strangle a 28-year-old woman just after 1:30 a.m. July 9, 2023. Officers responded to the intersection of Firehouse Drive and Montwood Drive in East El Paso on a family violence
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police Officer Guadalupe Sosa, who had been arrested on a separate charge just a few weeks ago, is now facing a sexual assault charge. Special Investigations Unit officers arrested Sosa, who the department describes as a 15-year veteran of the force, was arrested July 7 for allegedly sexually
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Police officers responded to a ‘deadly conduct’ call in Central El Paso, early Wednesday morning. The call came in past 2:30 am at the 4500 Blanco Avenue, according to a police spokesperson. Three people were injured. The extent of their injuries is currently unknown. Gang unit investigators have taken over
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Texas man who was recently sentenced in federal court for killing 23 people and wounding two dozen more at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart in 2019 has been transferred to state custody. A source familiar with the situation told ABC-7 the transfer was set to happen at 1 p.m. Tuesday
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Sheriff’s Office says deputies arrested Alvaro Castaneda June 30 in connection with a 2021 crash that killed a 16-year-old. Officials charged Castaneda with intoxication manslaughter, manslaughter, intoxication assault, and four counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The crash happened on October 24, 2021 when Castaneda was
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MESCALERO, New Mexico (KVIA) — Mescalero Apache Tribe officials say an Office of Justice Services Law Enforcement Officer shot and killed a tribal member July 9. The Office is a Mescalero Agency. The Tribal Council was briefed on the shooting. Officials say this is the community’s first officer-involved shooting. The Council is asking everyone to
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people
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UPDATE: 10:27 a.m. – El Paso Police say officers report seeing over a hundred people in the area, some running away as officers arrived. The department’s gang unit is assisting with the investigation. Police say a party was held at the residence on the 4500 block of Swan when uninvited guests arrived prompting a fight
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Following the formal sentencing for the Walmart mass shooter, Patrick Crusius, family members of the victims and other survivors were quick to weigh in. Most were frustrated and disappointed with the sentence. Friday morning inside a federal courthouse, a judge sentenced the murderer to serve 90 life sentences in a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces Police have released the body camera footage of the officer-involved shooting on the East Mesa on June 21, 2023. The suspect, 47-year-old Bobby Charles Crawford, was shot by Las Cruces Police Officers and airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso. Officials charged him with attempted murder,
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(CNN) — A shooting that erupted just before midnight Monday in Fort Worth, Texas, left at least three dead and eight others wounded, police said. Ten of the victims are adults and one a minor, according to a news release from the Fort Worth Police Department’s homicide unit. Officers discovered multiple people shot in a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Apprehension Unit took 40-year-old Eduardo Valles into custody June 28 on a felony criminal warrant for four Indecency with a Child charges. Deputies first tried to find Valles on the 5500 block of Oakbriar Circle in the Upper Valley, but when they failed, Valles
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Law enforcement agencies in El Paso County are preparing for the 4th of July holiday. In previous years, officials have seen anywhere between 5,000 to 10,000 people in the Red Sands area in Far East El Paso on Fourth of July night. This year officials estimate between 15,000 to 18,000
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Exactly two months after the death of a slain El Paso man, his family is still anxiously searching for answers. Back on April 29th, El Paso Police officers were called out to a Northeast neighborhood after a vehicle crashed into a front yard. The driver, 27-year-old Daniel Antonio Mergil, had
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 48-year-old Phoebe Copas, who is accused of murdering an El Paso Uber driver earlier this month, attended a bond hearing this afternoon. The judge overseeing the hearing decided to keep the $1.5 million bond in effect, with $500,000 in cash or surety bond and $1 million as a personal reconnaissance
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Update (1:52 p.m.): Police say the Crimes Against Persons unit is opening a murder investigation into the shooting. The victim has still not been identified. Investigators say officers were called out to Del Sol Medical Center, where the 39-year-old man had already been taken after he was shot. Anyone with information relevant to the investigation
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — More pets have been abandoned or dropped at Juarez’s animal rescue centers and on city streets recently. According to the city of Juarez, on Tuesday three puppies were left at the Animal Welfare Center. Because temperatures have been high recently, this practice is becoming increasingly dangerous. César René Díaz, the city’s
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SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (KVIA) — A 16-year-old boy was shot at a party in San Elizario early Tuesday morning, according to the El Paso Sheriff’s Office. It happened at the 12300 block of Campo Bello Dr. that’s half a mile south of Alameda Ave. The call came in at 2:30 a.m. originally as an aggravated
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