EL PASO, Texas — Several stores near the Resler Marketplace were broken into and vandalized overnight Friday. A partner for the Jamba Juice Store tells ABC-7 that surveillance video showed two men breaking in through the front window of his store. Thomas Hermosillo says the men flipped registers, took employee tip money and rummaged through
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Wisconsin Elections Commission plans to meet next week to consider making a criminal referral against a Racine County man who ordered absentee ballots in the names of a top state lawmaker and other voters in what he says was an effort to expose vulnerabilities in Wisconsin’s voting system. In a
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved the Assault Weapons Ban on Friday, a bill that would impose the first ban in decades on semi-automatic weapons. It follows mass shootings in Uvalde and across the country, and members of the Texas delegation voted mostly along party lines. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, were
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — Civil rights advocacy groups are again raising concerns about high-speed pursuits by U.S. Border Patrol agents after a crash in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, early Wednesday left two people dead and 10 others injured. While it remains unclear what the role the Border Patrol played in the crash, the American
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EL PASO, Texas – A family member of a murder-suicide victim speaks out days after the incident. On Tuesday, a 911 call came in regarding a domestic disturbance in a neighborhood in Northeast El Paso. The call had reported a couple arguing and the sound of gunshots. El Paso officers found Elena Patricia Constable and
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Las Cruces police department was involved in a pursuit Wednesday night, ending with an alleged robber being arrested and another man shot by an officer. While LCPD is investigating Wednesday night’s incident and cannot yet discuss the extent of their practices that night, they defined their general pursuit policies.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 17-year-old Las Cruces High School student was critically injured after police say a meeting near Frenger park escalated into a confrontation. According to police, the shooter fired one round at the victim. The teenager was taken to University Medical Center in El Paso in critical condition. Police say the
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UPDATE: Las Cruces police Miguel Dominguez says two men were suspected of shoplifting a large $500 portable AC unit from a Lowe’s Home Improvement store Wednesday around 8 p.m. led officers on a high-speed chase that ended a few moments later on the 700 block of Telshor. Dominguez says the men were confronted by two
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UPDATE: Police say the death appears to be a suicide. EL PASO, Texas — A body was discovered Thursday morning at Student Memorial Park in northeast El Paso, according to ABC-7 sources. The park is across from Irvin High School. The report came out around 8:30 a.m. The victim’s face was reportedly covered in blood.
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The City would like to provide an update on yesterday's K9 Video. pic.twitter.com/bljPYINWvj— City of Socorro (@City_of_Socorro) July 28, 2022 SOCORRO, Texas — Socorro police say video showing a canine handler apparently striking a canine officer depicts the handler applying “affirmative redirection action to the K-9.” Socorro police say the video was reviewed by City
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EL PASO, Texas – Family members of the woman found dead in east El Paso have set up a GoFundMe fundraiser to cover funeral expenses. The El Paso Police Department found the body of 51-year-old Marisela Veliz on Tuesday after a report of a missing person and welfare check request. Officials said they had found
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces police say there were reports of a shooting near near Frenger Park Wednesday afternoon. The park is a few miles north of New Mexico State University. A department spokesman says a person was injured and flown to a hospital in El Paso. This happened around 4 p.m. Wednesday. ABC-7 is working
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EL PASO, Texas — Federal officials say an El Paso man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor. Justin Allen Thomas, 32, was arrested on April 24, 2021. According to court documents, Thomas was speaking to a person he thought was 14 years old on a social media
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police say a husband killed his wife before turning the gun on himself Tuesday morning after a fight. Police have identified the husband as 32-year-old Ian Constable and his wife as 32-year-old Elena Patricia Constable. Police were called out to a home on the 7100 block of Red Man
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EL PASO, Texas — Police say the body of a 51-year-old woman was found Tuesday with injuries that suggest she was murdered. Police say the victim was Marisela Veliz. Police discovered the body after a missing person report and welfare check request. Police responded to the 2100 block of William Caples Street around 1:51 p.m.
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Carolyn Sung, CNN A grand jury in Lake County, Illinois, has returned 117 felony counts against Robert E. Crimo III, the man accused of shooting into a crowd during a July 4th parade in Highland Park, killing seven people and woounding dozens of others. Crimo, 21, is charged with 21 counts
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Weeks after a state district judge admonished the El Paso district attorney for not filing any motions in the Walmart shooting case even though she wants the case to go to trial next year, her office filed a handful of motions Friday. These include notice of the addition of two new state prosecutors on the
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico– District Attorney for the Third Judicial District in Doña Ana County, Gerald Byers, and his office are working on the expungement of 312 cannabis offenses. They plan to do so under the Cannabis Regulation Act. Some of the offenses under review in Doña Ana County date back to 1997. The
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EL PASO, Texas — Two men have been arrested and face aggravated assault charges after they allegedly threatened a woman with a gun and shot at a man in his car. Officials say 27-year-old Anthony rice and 31-year-old Roberto Gamero drove by a house on the 54-hundred block of Confetti in west El Paso Monday. Police say they
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police detectives are at a home in far east El Paso. Police were called out to a home on Williams Caples Street just after 9 a.m. in what started as a search for a missing person. Crimes against persons detectives were called out to the scene soon after police
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By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A woman accused of firing several gunshots inside a Dallas airport faces a charge of aggravated assault of a public servant because she allegedly fired one round toward a police officer, according to a warrant. The officer shot and wounded Portia Odufuwa, who was taken to a
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EL PASO, Texas — A violent confrontation in west El Paso Monday included shots fired, a car crash, and a weapon abandoned somewhere in west El Paso, according to El Paso police. Investigators say they received a report of shots fired at 3:20 p.m. at the 5400 block of Confetti. According to police, two men
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EL PASO, Texas — A drive-by shooting Monday caused shrapnel to strike a victim in the Mission Valley, according to El Paso Police. Police say the victim refused medical attention. According to investigators, an unknown person drove through the street on the 100 block of South Harris Street and shot toward the backyard of a
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El PASO, Texas — El Paso Police investigating the death of two people who were found dead inside a northeast El Paso home. It happened on the 7100 block of Red Man Drive in northeast El Paso. Police say that they received a call at about 1:30am pertaining to a domestic disturbance. When officers arrived
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Fire Marshal’s investigators have arrested a man that they say is responsible for a fire that occurred on July 20th. 21-year-old Alfredo Poblano was arrested the same day of the structure fire that occurred at 3 a.m. at the 1600 block of George Dieter in east El Paso.
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EL PASO, Texas — A suspect in a December, 2021 east side murder was arrested on July, 22nd, ABC-7 has learned. Jalen Jamal Jennings, 19, was taken into custody in Killeen, TX by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. He was then taken to El Paso and booked on murder charges. He is being held
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EL PASO, Texas — A woman is in custody Monday after resisting arrest and then spitting into the eye of an El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy. 41-year-old Lorenza Guadian was originally being brought into custody for an emergency detention order as the result of an alleged domestic verbal incident. She is being charged with harassment
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN A 71-year-old man was mauled to death by seven dogs while he walked to a neighborhood store last Tuesday in Fresno, Texas, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Freddy Garcia was walking to a neighborhood store in Fresno on July 18 when he was fatally attacked by
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Chuck Johnston, CNN Two parents and their 6-year-old daughter were found dead at an Iowa campground Friday, and a 4th person died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in what authorities are investigating as a triple homicide. Cedar Falls residents Tyler Schmidt and Sarah Schmidt, both 42, and their daughter Lula, 6,
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, CNN Four inmates who escaped a minimum-security housing unit in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are back in custody, just hours after their getaway Saturday, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. The search for the inmates — William Atkins, Johnny Bryant, Justin Lynn Conner and Trevor Lynn Hall — began around 5:30 a.m. Saturday
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