LORDSBURG, New Mexico (KVIA) — A Border Patrol Agent was shot multiple times in the chest by a person in a suspected smuggling vehicle, according to U.S. Border Patrol Officials. The agent, wearing his body armor, was medically examined and released. Officials say the agent was able to return fire as the suspect’s vehicle got
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police have identified a man they say threatened migrants with a gun at Sacred Heart Church. Police say 27-year-old Steven Matthew Driscoll of east El Paso was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police responded to a call of a man harassing migrants on Dec. 31.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Ron Martin, former president of the El Paso Municipal Police Officer’s Association, was arrested and charged with misappropriation of funds. According to booking information, the offense happened on Oct. 16, 2019. Martin was arrested and released Thursday. According to the charge, the money was between $2,500 and $30,000. Martin served
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(CNN) — Mexican authorities have arrested Ovidio Guzmán, son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, a source from the federal government of Mexico told CNN, in a dramatic operation in the northern state of Sinaloa on Thursday that led to clashes around the city of Culiacán. Guzmán is described as “a high-ranking member of
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EL PASO, Texas — Law enforcement agents are surrounding an area near Vinton as police search for a wanted suspect. It happened around 8 a.m. Thursday morning near Westway Blvd near Vinton Road. El Paso Police confirmed officers are attempting to take a man into custody and are asking the public to stay clear of
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Mexican authorities confirm that Ernesto Alberto Piñón de La Cruz, otherwise known as ‘El Neto’ was killed Thursday morning, according to a press release ABC-7 received from our news partners Canal 44. According to the press release, investigators have been looking for all the escaped convicts from Sunday’s prison riot, including
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By Dakin Andone, Elizabeth Joseph and Veronica Miracle, CNN One of the two roommates who survived the fatal November stabbings of four University of Idaho students told investigators she saw a masked man dressed in black in the house the morning of the attack, according to a probable cause affidavit released Thursday in prosecutors’ case
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EL PASO, Texas — A woman suffered life-threatening injuries after a shooting at the Canutillo Palms Apartment early Thursday morning, according to El Paso Police. Police are reporting that male suspect fled the scene of the shooting. The apartment complex is located at 365 La Puesta Dr., very close to Canutillo High School. First responders
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UPDATE 4:39 p.m.: The EL Paso Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is investigating the discovery of a man’s body at the 100 block of Brooks in Canutillo. Deputies were called out to the area around 12:10 p.m. Wednesday. The man was found with no signs of life. He has yet to be identified, and no
Continue Reading (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 3:11 p.m. ET] William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind of the sprawling college admissions scam aptly known as Operation Varsity Blues, was sentenced Wednesday to 3.5 years in federal prison, nearly four years after the scandal was publicly exposed. [Original story, published at 1:57 p.m. ET] William “Rick” Singer, the
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — State and local government officials are in Juarez to honor the victims killed in Sunday’s attack on “el Cereso 3”. The jail was attacked on Jan. 1 by a group of armed men. The officials joined the families of those killed in their mourning. Hundreds of officials were joined by
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, CNN Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square checkpoint just after 10 p.m., authorities have said. At the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Court documents obtained by ABC-7 reveal what happened during a confrontation inside a far east El Paso home that resulted in the stabbing of a couple and the shooting death of another man. According to the documents, 27-year-old Jenny Lee Rojo told investigators she and 41-year-old Adrian Maldonado went to
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UPDATE: Documents obtained by ABC-7 indicate a man killed his 79-year-old aunt and his 33-year-old girlfriend. According to the documents, Gabriel Antonio Ramirez lived with his aunt at 3728 Truman. Investigators say she made a call to 911 in which she asked police to rush to her home as she and another person were being
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Two days after a group of prisoners escaped one of Juarez’s jails, “Cereso 3,” its director was fired on Tuesday, and every other staff member is now under investigation. On New Year’s day, 30 prisoners escaped from “el Cereso 3” after a group of armed men attacked the prison and some
Continue Reading UPDATE JAN. 2 — The death toll has risen to 17, and the number of inmates that have escaped is 25 as the search continues. UPDATE 3:27 P.M. — 13 people were injured in Sunday’s riot in addition to the 14 deaths, according to the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Chihuahua. The Attorney
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Three days after the arrest of a suspect in the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students, authorities have yet to release key details in the case, from whether the suspect knew the victims to what his alleged motive might have been and what finally prompted his arrest. The arrest
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EL PASO, Texas – One person is facing charges following a fire breaking out in El Paso’s Lower Valley. The fire happened at Marmolejo Apartments, located at 600 N Carolina Drive, according for First Responders. One person suffered minor injuries, and another person was displaced due to the fire, according to a spokesman from the
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department said it has increased its presence of officers in the S. Oregon area following several incidents resulting in complaints from migrants and residents in the area about drug activity and people trying to take advantage of migrants. According to police, one incident occurred Friday just before
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A woman has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after attacking a couple at a home in east El Paso. According to El Paso police, 27-year-old Jenny Lee Rojo and 41-year-old Adrian Maldonado entered a home on the 12200 block of Kira Christel Monday and attacked a
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Jim Sciutto, Lauren del Valle, Mark Morales and John Miller, CNN A graduate student at Washington State University was arrested Friday in his home state of Pennsylvania in last month’s killings of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home — a brutal attack that rattled a small college town, authorities
Continue Reading (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security recently warned of potential domestic violent extremist acts related to the anticipated lifting of a Trump-era border restriction, according to a memo obtained by CNN, just days before the termination of those limits was halted by the Supreme Court.”So far, we have observed calls for attacks targeting primarily
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EL PASO, Texas — A person was attacked with a machete Tuesday, sending that person to the hospital with serious injuries. El Paso police say the call came in just before 9:30 p.m. They were called out to Noble Street and Myrtle Avenue. A separate scene related to the investigation was being searched at Magoffin
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says a person was shot Wednesday morning during a physical altercation within a group. According to officials, it happened before 3:18 a.m. at 366 Citadel. Officials say the victim was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound and is in stable condition. The El
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EL PASO, Texas – Crimes Against Persons detectives are on the scene of a shooting that took place in East El Paso before 2 A.M. Wednesday morning. It happened 1400 block of N. Zaragoza Road. Police tell ABC-7 two people in a white vehicle shot a man leaving the 1111 Bar with a rifle. The
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(CNN) — A Michigan federal judge sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 16 years in prison Tuesday. Prosecutors said that Adam Fox was the leader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020. A jury convicted Fox and an accomplice in August on charges of kidnapping
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UPDATE: (7:49 a.m.) El Paso Police say the suspect, who has not been indentified, voluntarily came out of the home around 7 a.m. The suspect was arrested and is facing aggravated assualt charges. The scene is now clear. EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Police say the SWAT team was called out to a home
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EL PASO, Texas– One woman is dead after being stabbed in central El Paso Sunday afternoon. It happened on the 3700 block of Truman Avenue, near Travis Elementary School. Police say the call came at around 5 p.m. ABC-7 crews at the scene saw police blocking off the street. A police spokesman says the woman was in her
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Originally Published: 25 DEC 22 16:06 ETUpdated: 26 DEC 22 15:55 ETBy Marcia Reverdosa and Maija Ehlinger, CNN (CNN) — The man arrested for being involved in a bombing attempt at Brasilia International Airport over the weekend said in a written statement to police that he intended to “create chaos” so a “siege state in the
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police are investigating a stabbing in a central El Paso neighborhood on Christmas night. The stabbing happened in the 3700 block of Truman avenue. Stay with ABC-7 for any updates to this story.
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