EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police arrested 24-year-old Valeria Mena, charging her with Intoxicated Manslaughter Monday. Now ABC-7 is learning that Mena was arrested two times in the past for Driving while Intoxicated. The first charge was filed in January of 2020. After that Mena was released on a $1,000 bond, according to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Sheriff’s deputies took 40-year-old Lilian Pinales into custody Monday on a murder charge. A spokesperson says the Fugitive Apprehension Unit got a felony arrest warrant for Pinales, then picked her up at a home on the 9300 block of Hollings Street in Northeast El Paso, just blocks north
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police arrested 24-year-old Valeria Mena, charging her with Intoxicated Manslaughter. Officials say early Sunday morning Mena was driving north on Joe Battle when she allegedly ran a red light at Edgemere and hit another car. First responders found the passenger of that other car, 28-year-old Steven Anthony Hernandez,
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — Law enforcement officers took an El Paso fugitive into custody early Monday morning. 34-year-old Sergio Florentino lives in the Lower Valley in El Paso, according to jail records. Dona Ana County Detention Center records show Florentino was taken into custody at the Border Patrol checkpoint on I-25. He
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to the Stillwater Police Department in Oklahoma, law enforcement officers in El Paso arrested 28-year-old Alexander Michael Stephenson on two child pornography charges. Just before his arrest, Stephenson was scheduled to deploy in Africa as a member of the Oklahoma National Guard, according to a spokesperson with the Stillwater
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — Law enforcement officers arrested 36-year-old Conception Morales just after 8 a.m. Monday. Jail records show Morales was arrested on White Sands Missile Range. Morales is facing two felony counts of Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor, according to Dona Ana County Detention Center records. Records show he was
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — In response to an ongoing local call for more accountability, the Las Cruces City Council is set to discuss the potential creation of a Civilian Policy Oversight Commission for the Las Cruces Police Department. For over a year, several community members, including Peter Goodman, Earl Neissan, and Bobbi Green,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for murder. 20-year-old Jose Manuel Villa was booked into the El Paso County Jail on a $1,000,000 bond. Officials with the Sheriff’s office say Villa murdered 19-yera-old Adan Tiscarreno. According to a spokesperson, deputies found Tiscarreno on the 13000 block of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- One man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a shooting in Horizon. It happened near Horizon Blvd. and Mark Twain Avenue at 11:50 p.m. Friday night. El Paso County Sheriff’s office said deputies responded to a call in reference to shots fired. A 19-year-old man was transported to the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- A domestic disturbance call ends in a serious crash Saturday morning. At 1:20 a.m. El Paso police responded to a call of a domestic disturbance at 670 N Carolina Dr. in the Hacienda Heights Apartment complex. Police said as officers were investigating the incident, a 42-year-old man returned to the scene and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Army Times reports a sergeant at Ft. Bliss is charged with murder in the death of her husband, a fellow Ft. Bliss soldier. When 29-year-old Sgt. Hector A. Cervantes was found dead on Christmas Day in 2019, investigators believed he had committed suicide. They say he was found with
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested 25-year-old Dominic Montoya on human smuggling charges Wednesday, according to Dona Ana County Detention Center documents. According to the criminal complaint filed against Montoya in federal court, the alleged human smuggling took place on April 5, 2023. The document states that Border Patrol agents patrolling
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Sheriff deputies took 39-year-old Janeth Samaniego Granados into custody Thursday. Officials say the Fugitive Apprehension Unit received a felony arrest warrant for Granados that same day. Granados was arrested on the 10000 block of Jamaica Street in Northeast El Paso, according to a spokesperson with the Sheriff’s office.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — On Thursday, deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Apprehension Unit took 55-year-old Paul Dominguez into custody. Dominguez is facing two felony outstanding criminal warrants for Burglary of Habitation and Criminal Mischief, according to officials with the Sheriff’s office. Deputies arrested Dominguez at a home on Willow Creek
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 20-year-old Jesus Antonio Mendez Jr. was taken into custody by the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Apprehension Unit Thursday. Mendez is facing three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Officials say deputies found Mendez at a house on Pullman Drive in El
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested 25-year-old Dominic Montoya Wednesday. He was taken into custody at the Federal Court House. The Las Cruces resident is charged with “Smuggling Illegal Aliens,” according to Dona Ana County Detention Center documents. Montoya is facing federal charges in this case. He is being held at
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Court documents from the El Paso Police Department provide a timeline of events from an alleged murder involving EPISD Special Education teacher, 25-year-old Matthew Jacob Mendoza. According to the documents, on August 29th, 2021, Mendoza, the victim Eric Hernandez, and a witness were drinking beers at Red Sands. Investigators say
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UPDATE: ABC-7 obtained court documents that reveal the murder occurred in Aug. 2021. On Aug. 8, 2021, El Paso Police were called out to a neighborhood in East El Paso. Officers found an unresponsive man in the driveway of a home. The man was taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead. Police eventually located
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police have arrested 21-year-old Brandon Mendoza after a shooting at a bar in the Cincinnati Entertainment District May 12, 2023. Court documents newly obtained by ABC-7 state Mendoza kicked 24-year-old Juan Rojas’s head after Rojas was shot by another suspect. Police have not yet named that second suspect.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police have arrested 21-yer-old Brandon Mendoza after a shooting at a bar in the Cincinnati Entertainment District May 12, 2023. Court documents newly obtained by ABC-7 state Mendoza kicked 24-year-old Juan Rojas’s head after Rojas was shot by another suspect. Police have not yet named that second suspect.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police have arrested Brandon Mendoza after a shooting at a bar in the Cincinnati Entertainment District May 12, 2023. He appeared for a bond hearing Thursday morning. The judge chose to reduce his bond. The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. outside a bar on the 2700 block
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to court documents newly obtained by ABC-7, 17-year-old Brandon Perez is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was arrested by El Paso police officers after a fight in the parking lot of El Cometa on the 9500 block of Viscount in east El Paso on May
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – El Paso police said Wednesday they arrested Brandon Jacob Perez, 17, after an investigation into this weekend’s shooting at an East El Paso Mexican food restaurant. It happened at the Viscount Village Shopping Center, in the parking lot of the restaurant. Crimes Against Persons detectives say they arrested Perez with
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Las Cruces Police Department is appealing to the public for assistance in identifying two suspects involved in a dramatic mid-day shooting that took place on Monday, May 15, 2023, near the New Mexico State University campus. The incident, which reportedly began around 12:30 PM near Frenger Park in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials with the Border Patrol and Department of Homeland Security say they’re seeing large amounts of teenagers in the borderland being enticed by criminal organizations to become smugglers. According to Fidel Baca of the Border’s Patrol’s El Paso sector, this fiscal year El Paso is leading the nation with 265,000
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – ABC-7 has learned new details about a shooting outside an eastside restaurant over the weekend. Sources close to the investigation said the man who was shot was an off-duty Border Patrol agent. New video surfaced from that night shows the moment the man was shot outside the El Cometa restaurant.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces police want your help in finding the people who were travelling in two different vehicles involved in a shooting Monday. Witnesses said the suspects were involved in a chase and occupants of both cars were firing rounds at each other. Police said the shooting happened around 12:30
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Originally Published: 09 MAY 23 02:11 ETUpdated: 16 MAY 23 17:37 ETBy Holly Yan, Steve Almasy, Josh Campbell, Sara Smart and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNNEditor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of the shooting’s aftermath.Allen, Texas (CNN) — The weapons brought to the attack on random shoppers at the outlet mall in Allen, Texas, were all
Continue Reading Originally Published: 15 MAY 23 15:33 ETUpdated: 15 MAY 23 19:29 ETBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — The gunman who on Monday shot and killed three people and wounded multiple others, including two law enforcement officers, in Farmington, New Mexico, was 18 years old, the deputy police chief told reporters.Police didn’t say what kind of weapon
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (KVIA) –A woman was arrested after she was found to be in possession of almost 400 fentanyl pills, over 6 grams of cocaine, over three grams of methamphetamine, and more than $21,000 in cash. Officers with the Alamogordo Police Department found 22-year-old Angelica Eunique-Angel Barreras sitting in a vehicle when responding to
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