A child arrived at the Hospitals of Providence, Northeast campus, early Saturday morning with stab wounds, according to first responders from the El Paso fire department. The child was taken to a different hospital with serious injuries, according to first responders. No other information on the child’s condition have been released.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas– First responders said a man has been taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after jumping out of a car. The incident happened at Tierra Este Road and Sunny Prairie Drive in Far east El Paso, early Saturday morning. First responders said the man is in his mid-30s. No other information regarding
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico captures infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, responsible for 1985 torture, killing of DEA agent. Caro-Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, had been wanted over the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. According to the DEA, “Kiki” Camarena was working in Mexico on the trail of
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HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is touring Houston’s Department of Public Safety Crime Lab. Gov. Abbott and held a news conference on the growing fentanyl crisis in Texas. Abbott said that DPS seizures of fentanyl have “skyrocketed” 1000 percent in one year, but that the efforts of law enforcement alone are not enough
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EL PASO, Texas — A 29-year-old man who police say presented himself as an energy consultant for a company he was no longer working for has been arrested for deceptive business practice. Police say a 75-year-old man paid Jacob Vasquez $500 as a downpayment for refrigeration services. Police say Vasquez never showed up to start
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EL PASO, Texas — A man and a woman were arrested at the La Quinta Inn at 7550 Remcon as they were preparing to drive away, according to El Paso police. Police say they were wanted for a variety of charges. The suspects are 24-year-old Kathleen Arteche and 25-year-old Omar Rosales. Police say Arteche was
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After leaked surveillance of law enforcement responding to the Uvalde shooting was published earlier this week, angry snap judgments and criticisms of individual officers flooded the internet. Media organizations and social media users were up in arms over an image pulled from the video posted by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV that showed a policeman
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EL PASO, Texas — The father of Emily Canales, the 5-year-old El Paso native who was killed allegedly by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend in Colorado Springs, spoke out in response to the suspects’ court appearances. Emily Canales’s mother, Brianne Escamilla, made her first court appearance Wednesday. Escamilla’s boyfriend, Matthew Urias, appeared in court
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EL PASO, Texas — Customs and Border Protection seized about 34 pounds of cocaine along with a gold-plated handgun from a 26-year-old male U.S. citizen at the Bridge of the Americas Tuesday. Shortly after 2:30 p.m., the driver was sent for secondary inspection. A non-intrusive canine inspection occurred, in which 34.61 pounds of cocaine and
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EL PASO, Texas — An active shooter training exercise was organized by FBI El Paso, the El Paso Police, and the Texas Department of Public Safety at the Armed Forces Reserve Center to help law enforcement at the federal, state, and local level to be better prepared for an active shooting situation. “Active Shooter incidents
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua — Juárez officials worry the number of water rescues and recoveries in El Paso canals will not stop anytime soon. They’re sending out a call for migrants not to risk their lives. Unlike Juárez, U.S. water rescue teams train constantly to respond to any emergency. The river situation on the Mexican side presents
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By Chuck Johnston, CNN A Columbus man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old Ohio girl who then had to travel to Indiana seeking an abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to court proceedings CNN obtained through affiliate WBNS. Rumors of the case garnered national and international attention, with some US
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — A 34-year-old man showed up at Memorial Medical Center just after 5 a.m. Wednesday with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office. The man was identified as Orangie Fisher. Officials say he was assaulted in the 5900 block of Las Alturas. According to investigators, the
Continue Reading By David Shortell, CNN One day late last month, as new abortion restrictions began taking shape in US states, three Mexican women quietly crossed into the country at different points along the border, dozens of abortion-inducing pills hidden in their belongings. The medication, an FDA-approved two-drug combination, had traveled across the interior of Mexico in
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EL PASO, Texas — A 53-year-old man was arrested for his suspected involvement in a Chase Bank robbery that happened Tuesday. The El Paso Police Department and the FBI El Paso Field Office announced Wednesday that Michael Lee Hornback was arrested at a local motel off Dyer Street in Northeast El Paso. An off-duty EPPD
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In the spring of 2009, Elliott Naishtat persuaded his colleagues in the Texas Legislature to pass a bill that he believed would require the state to report court-ordered mental health hospitalizations for Texans of all ages to the national firearms background check system. Nearly two years had passed since a student with a history of
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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission. The disclosure came in a letter Amazon sent on July 1 and was made public on Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey. It makes the first time the company publicly shared such
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EL PASO, Texas — Former U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte joined ABC-7 at 10 to give his reaction to the Uvalde shooting video.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The trial continues for a former Las Cruces officer accused of killing a man with a choke hold restraint. Christopher Smelser is being tried for second-degree murder in the February 2020 death of Antonio Valenzuela. The trial resumed at 8:30 Tuesday morning at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces. Officer Andrew Tuton was the first
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Federal officials say a Louisiana man was sentenced to life in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. According to court testimony and documents, Marco Antonio Abundiz, 33, sexually abused a child at Fort Bliss on multiple occasions. Officials say a 6-year-old made an outcry against Abundiz in October 2020. According
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EL PASO, Texas — New gruesome and disturbing details are revealed in court documents involving the death of an El Paso girl who was allegedly murdered by her mother where they lived in Colorado Springs, CO. ABC-7 still has questions about why it took so long to make an arrest in the little girl’s death.
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EL PASO, Texas– The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies conducted an ALERRT active shooter exercise on Tuesday, July 12, at Ricardo Estrada Middle School. The exercise simulated patrol officers responding to an active shooter by utilizing officers on duty and exposing them to a simulated event. The drill exposed responding
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Liz Cheney says Trump tried to contact witness in Jan. 6 investigation, Justice Department has been alerted. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, CNN A heated Oval Office meeting convened by then-President Donald Trump on December 18, 2020 — in which lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, floated outrageous suggestions about overturning the election — was a central focus of Tuesday’s hearing held by the House select committee investigating
Continue Reading Officials say Bay Area CEO John Kevin Woodward is charged with the murder of his roommate’s girlfriend, Laurie Houts, in Mountain View in 1992.
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Melissa Alonso and Dakin Andone, CNN Casey White, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, has been indicted for felony murder in connection to her death, according to Lauderdale County Circuit Court documents. The indictment alleges Casey White, while committing first-degree escape, “caused the death of
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves, Andy Rose and Steve Almasy, CNN The Austin American-Statesman newspaper published Tuesday edited portions of school surveillance video showing officers retreating from gunfire in the hallway of Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, during the fatal shooting May 24. The edited video on the newspaper’s website is just more than four
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a Mexican citizen for an outstanding warrant for sexual assault of a child Saturday. According to CBP, the 47-year-old man was entering the U.S. from Mexico when questioning led to the discovery of the outstanding warrant. “CBP’s primary mission is homeland security, however as
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The murder trial for a Las Cruces Police Officer accused of killing a man with a chokehold restraint began Monday. Officer Christopher Smelser, 29, is being charged with 2nd degree murder after being accused of killing Antonio Valenzuela, 40, back in February of 2020. Smelser shot Valenzuela with a taser
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Doña Ana couple was charged with child abuse in connection to the death of their 8-month-old boy who was left inside a storage room for the night, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. Brianna Garcia, 21, and Jasper Garcia-Montaño, 27, were arrested Saturday. According to the Sun-News, their child,
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