EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say a Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting near the border wall. The shooting happened Monday night just before 9 p.m. ABC-7 was there, along with a significant law enforcement presence. According to CBP, the agent was responding to an illegal entry
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles says he will serve out the remainder of his term, which ends December 31, 2024. “It has been an honor to have had the privilege to serve the El Paso Community both in the El Paso Police Department, as well as the El Paso
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — One person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a shooting on the 7900 block of Alameda, according to El Paso Fire Dispatch. Fire says the call came in just before 9 p.m. Monday. A large police presence was reported at the scene. This is a developing story.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– The number of El Pasoans getting summoned for jury duty is increasing. According to court officials, in February 2022, 3,795 people were summoned for jury duty. Just last month, 14,145 people were summoned. In March 2020, the El Paso Council of Judges announced all jury trials were halted in the county’s
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA)– — Police in Las Cruces have arrested a man they say robbed someone at gunpoint outside a popular shopping mall, before fleeing with the victim’s vehicle and dog that was in the back seat. The crime happened on February 19 outside the Ross and Marshalls along Lohman Avenue. Police say
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Police confirm one woman was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a shooting in east El Paso. According to police, the shooting occurred shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the 1700 block of N. Zaragoza Rd. There’s no word yet from police on what led up
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Members of the FBI El Paso’s Violent Crime and Gang task force arrested a known felon after executing multiple search and arrest warrants. The operation was conducted in Central El Paso along La Luz street in search of alleged members of the Chuco Tango gang. One known felon was found
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — An Organ Mountain High School band teacher was arrested Thursday. He’s charged with criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The teacher is identified as 40-year-old Valentino Leyba. According to documents obtained by ABC-7, Leyba had three students over
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Facundo Chavez appeared in court Friday afternoon with his attorneys. Chavez is accused of murdering El Paso Sherrif’s Deputy Peter Herrera back in March 2019. He faces a capital murder charge. His lawyers discussed the possibility of dismissing the case, but the judge denied the motion. Chavez’s lawyers asked the
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Wednesday, three migrants were arrested in Downtown Juarez after they committed an “administrative foul” according to the city of Juarez. This caused major conflict between migrants and Juarez municipal police, shown in several social media videos. They ended up arguing inside the food pantry located inside the Juarez Cathedral before
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Boys and Girls Club of El Paso is a program that offers every kid or teenager has a safe place to go after school. With the recent rise in violence among teens, the community is in need of such services more than ever. The goal of the program is
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Immigration officials in El Paso removed a Mexican man wanted for homicide in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Wednesday. Cesar Giovanny Palomino-Espino, 24, was turned over to Mexican authorities at the Staton Street Bridge. Immigration officials say he was “unlawfully present” in the U.S. Palomino-Espino had been previously removed to Mexico at
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(CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 7:08 p.m. ET] The jury in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh has found him guilty of murdering his wife and son, the grisliest and most severe of the allegations faced by the disgraced former South Carolina attorney. Prosecutors have indicated they will seek life in prison without
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Texas DPS agent suspended after being arrested for causing bodily injury struck his girlfriend in the face with his fist, according to documents obtained by ABC-7. Jesse Bennett, 38, was arrested Monday. According to court documents, Bennett and his girlfriend had been drinking at a bar on Monday. On
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A home invasion Wednesday morning in northeast El Paso and a man found shot 2 miles away from that location appear connected, according to El Paso police. Investigators say 29-year-old Bruce Wayne Murphy, a northeast El Paso resident, forced his way into a home Thursday on the 7500 block of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Sophia Martinez, 18, headed out on a blind date on a Friday night in March 2000. But she never made it to the dance club in downtown El Paso. Sophia’s body was found in the desert just north of the city limits the following day; she had been shot numerous
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A 38-year-old special agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety has been suspended following his arrest by the El Paso Police Department, according to DPS officials. Jesse Bennett was arrested Monday and charged with assault causing bodily injury/family violence, according to officials. A DPS spokesperson says Bennett started with
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ABC NEWS — An explosive device was found in a checked piece of luggage at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport on Monday, according to a criminal complaint. The passenger, Mark Muffley of Lansford, Pennsylvania, is now in FBI custody, officials said. Muffley, 40, was set to take an Allegiant flight from eastern Pennsylvania to Florida’s
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Las Cruces fire investigators are asking for the public’s help identifying the suspect or suspects responsible for setting fires in trash receptacles. The six trash receptacle fires occurred overnight between about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, and 4 a.m. Wednesday All fires were quickly extinguished. There were no reported injuries and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police have identified the man they say led officers on a chase Monday that ended at Bassett. Police say, Angel Mosqueda, 18, of northeast El Paso, pointed a handgun at a motorcycle officer conducting a traffic stop at 9700 McCombs due to Mosqueda not wearing a seatbelt. Police
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A 27% increase in overall property crimes, led by residential burglaries and vehicle thefts, was reported in preliminary crime statistics from 2022, according to the City of Las Cruces. “The men and women of the Las Cruces Police Department take crime prevention seriously,” said Chief Miguel Dominguez. “But unfortunately,
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Originally Published: 27 FEB 23 10:25 ETUpdated: 27 FEB 23 20:59 ETBy Eric Levenson, Alta Spells and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Alex Murdaugh’s defense in his double murder trial rested its case Monday after calling up 14 witnesses over about two weeks of testimony.Monday’s testimony was headlined by an expert in crime scene reconstruction and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A 41-year-old man faces multiple charges after he was found trying to steal rims from a vehicle at the 8000 block of Doniphan, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. Officials say it happened Saturday around 4:21 p.m. The man was identified as Antonio Estupinan. Deputies say Estupinan also
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The Texas Department of Public Safety was duped into shipping at least 3,000 Texas driver’s licenses to a Chinese organized crime group that targeted Asian Texans, DPS Director Steve McCraw told a Texas House committee on Monday. The organization was then selling the licenses, obtained using the personal information of Texas drivers, to people in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 34-year-old woman for aggravated robbery following an incident that occurred Friday on the 2000 block of S. Darrington Road around 6:30 p.m. According to deputies, a female victim told them that Adriana Nava assaulted her and stole her vehicle. The Horizon Police department
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UPDATE: An ongoing investigation revealed that two of the teenagers detained in Saturday morning’s incident were involved in various violent crimes beginning just after 1 a.m. The first crime reported was an aggravated robbery at 1881 Saul Kleinfeld in a parking lot, where police say a 27-year-old man was allegedly beaten, threatened with a handgun,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Socorro Police Chief David Burton presided over the ribbon cutting of the new communications and dispatch center. It is located at Socorro Police Headquarters on 670 Poona Rd. “It is a project that’s over a year in the making,” said Socorro Police Chief Burton. ” We looked at were the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The college teenager who shot and killed a Texas Tech police officer from El Paso in 2017 was sentenced to life without parole Friday, according to East’s widow, Carmen East. Hollis Daniels, now 24, was 19-years-old when he shot and killed officer Floyd East, an El Pasoan, during a traffic
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police arrested a 15-year-old male who was seen in a post on social media firing a gun from a vehicle. EPPD’s Gang Unit identified the juvenile and took him into custody at a traffic stop when they found him as a passenger in a vehicle and in possession
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(CNN) — The Idaho house where four college students were murdered in November will be demolished as a “healing step,” the University of Idaho said in a statement Friday. Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 — were each stabbed multiple times in the early morning hours of November
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