CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua State Police Department (Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Estado de Chihuahua) said this week that no murders were reported in 51 of Chihuahua’s 67 municipalities last month. SSPE’s Assistant Police Chief Luis Ángel Aguirre held a news conference this week and announced that September ended as the least
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UPDATE: Congresswoman Veronica Escobar toured Camp East Montana Thursday morning to find out about the reported confrontations between detainees and facility staff. Escobar said ICE blamed a group of Venezuelans for starting those exchanges that led to the assault of staff and what ICE is describing as a riot. Escobar said several people were taken
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector issued a warning last month to rideshare drivers about manipulation by transnational criminal organizations involved in human smuggling. Popular rideshare platforms include Uber and Lyft. Federal officials warned drivers who accept suspicious fares risk severe physical danger and federal felony charges, as they said
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Daw family, former owners of Chop, the dog allegedly shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in El Paso last September, is seeking justice and accountability from the federal government. As ABC-7 reported yesterday, a federal lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. government alleging that a
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UPDATE (July 9, 2026) — A social media post reportedly helped police identify 21-year-old Abraham Sosa Castro as a suspect in a deadly hit-and-run crash on the Loop 275 near Pellicano, according to arrest documents. Documents said Castro’s car flipped onto its roof after crashing into Manuel Oliva Contreras June 19 just before midnight. Contreras
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Paso del Norte Center of Hope, which was opened to assist and protect victims of human trafficking, leads anti-trafficking efforts in the borderland and is partnering with law enforcement and local nonprofits in the region. The center has seen an average of 45 to 50 human trafficking cases monthly
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector is warning rideshare drivers about the significant legal and physical dangers associated with human smuggling risks. Border Patrol said transnational criminal organizations are manipulating legitimate mobile applications to facilitate their smuggling operations, posing threats to drivers who unknowingly participate. Criminal smugglers use these apps
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says the country continues to face an unprecedented and evolving drug threat driven by illicit fentanyl, which the agency says is increasingly mixed with a dangerous array of synthetic substances emerging in the illicit market. “These combinations are making an already deadly drug supply even
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AUSTIN (KVIA) — Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp. Paxton alleged the company misled consumers about privacy protections on the messaging app. WhatsApp is marketed as a “secure” messaging service by using end-to-end encryption. The encryption lets the sender and recipient access messages, but the platform
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua State Public Security Secretariat started operations at the new Sentinel Tower, or “Torre Centinela” in Downtown Juárez two weeks ago, a project that presented back in 2022, as ABC-7 previously reported. During a news conference Monday, the Chihuahua Public Safety Secretary, or Police Chief, Gilberto Loya Chávez along
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Chihuahua Attorney General César Jáuregui Moreno placed his resignation on Monday, days after the State Investigation Agency (AEI), along with Mexico’s Defense Department (SEDENA) and several U.S. officials, discovered two drug labs south of the state on April 18. The drug lab was discovered around 400 miles south of the Juárez –
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A newly filed lawsuit in El Paso County accuses Uber Technologies, Inc. and one of its drivers of false imprisonment, assault, and gross negligence after a ride reportedly spiraled into a violent confrontation, leaving a mother and her two young children traumatized. According to court filings, plaintiff Cynthia Sarabia, acting individually
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The ‘Centro de Reinserción Social No. 3,’ or CERESO 3 prison in Juárez is a Chihuahua state-run penitentiary located south of the city. ABC-7 toured the facilities where the Chihuahua State Public Security Secretariat (SSPE) renovated some cell blocks related to the most populated areas and those with the highest
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office (FGE) announced yesterday that both parents of 18-month-old toddler Eithan Daniel S.H., who was found dead in Juárez on March 10, were charged with aggravated homicide/murder. According to a news release sent by the District Attorney’s Office for the Northern Zone in Chihuahua, both defendants
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CHAPARRAL, New Mexico (KVIA) — Otero County Commissioners held an emergency meeting last Friday to discuss the future of the ICE detention center located in Chaparral, New Mexico. Otero County Commissioners renewed a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the Otero County detention center open, even though a new state law prohibiting such agreements
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Estrella del Paso, a local migrant advocacy center that offers legal services to them and their families, just issued a warning to the community due to a recent scam targeting detainees currently under ICE custody and their family members currently detained at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas. According
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua Department of Public Safety, or Chihuahua State Police Department (SSPE), reported last week that Ciudad Juárez has dropped off the list of the 15 most violent cities in the world, after 54 months of the current state administration. State Public Security Secretary Gilberto Loya announced that, after four
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Several residents of Juárez and El Paso have reported and posted on social media that they were in the Mexican state of Jalisco last weekend when violence erupted throughout the state and surrounding areas. ABC-7 spoke with a Juárez resident who traveled to Guadalajara for work, but that work was
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A Mexican federal judge ordered the immediate release over the weekend of José Luis A.C., the former owner of the infamous “Crematorio Plenitud,” where approximately 386 bodies were found in Juárez last year. Judge Luis Eduardo Rivas of the Seventh District Court granted an injunction to the crematorium owner, a decision
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A hearing to discuss the case of the second migrant who died while in federal custody at Camp East Montana inside Fort Bliss happened today at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Downtown El Paso. 56-year-old, Geraldo Lunas Campos from Cuba was pronounced dead on Jan. 3 of this year and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 reported less than two weeks ago about the third reported migrant death at Camp East Montana inside Fort Bliss, where 36-year-old Victor Manuel Diaz died by presumed suicide, according to ICE. The attorney representing Diaz’s family from Nicaragua, Randall Kallinen, says they want to start an investigation into what
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A video circulating on social media shows two migrants crossing the Rio Grande dressed as construction workers, along with three suspected human smugglers; this reportedly occurred on January 9. Once they crossed the river, they were seen walking toward the levee and then heading to one of the border wall
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Today was the second day of the capital murder trial for Atruro Ortega Garcia, the man accused of stabbing and killing a family of three in East El Paso in 1994. As ABC-7 has reported, Dante Santoni, 3, his mother, Connie Villa, 28, and Villa’s longtime partner and Dante’s father,
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Three years ago, on January 1, 2023, an attack and prison riot at CERESO No. 3 in Juárez left 17 people dead (10 detention officers/guards and seven inmates) and 27 inmates who escaped from the prison in Ciudad Juárez. This week, the Chihuahua State Police Department (Secretaría de Seguridad Pública
Continue Reading JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The City of Juárez, along with the State of Chihuahua, have recorded similar numbers of homicides in recent years, but according to the Chihuahua Secretary of Public Safety (SSPE) or the Chihuahua State Police, this year they are set to close 2025 with a decrease compared to last year. According to
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua State Police Department (SSPE) continues to rescue migrants held at stash houses by alleged human smugglers in Ciudad Juárez. According to a spokesperson from SSPE Chihuahua, this year they have found 261 migrants so far, compared to 265 last year. Across the entire state, they have found 268
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Juárez Municipal Police Department (SSPM) and the Chihuahua State Police Department (SSPE) have reported multiple rescues of migrants found confined in stash houses, with alleged smugglers arrested in recent weeks. SSPE Chihuahua arrested three alleged smugglers and rescued 17 migrants from a stash house on Tuesday, and SSPM Juárez arrested
Continue Reading JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Chihuahua State Police Chief Gilberto Loya Chávez confirmed to ABC-7 that they laid off 50 state police employees for alleged illegal activity inside state prisons in Chihuahua. The Chihuahua State Police Department (SSPE) has been overseeing the control of all the CERESOS (state prisons) in the state for the past 34
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Senate Bill 8, which aims to require local law enforcement officers to assist and collaborate with ICE and other federal agencies in enforcing immigration law, will take effect on January 1, 2026. If ICE declines a request, sheriff’s officers statewide must reapply at least once a year until an
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