EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Police Department has identified the victim in Saturday’s deadly shooting as a 24-year-old man. Authorities are now searching for more information, and individuals with information may qualify a cash reward. Shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to 4101 Rich Beem Blvd. to multiple gunshots reported in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — One person is dead after multiple people reported gunshots near a Far East El Paso apartment complex, according to police. El Paso Police said they responded to 4101 Rich Beem Blvd shortly before 4 a.m. Officers found one person fatally wounded in the parking lot of the complex. Crimes Against
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Regular border crossers continue to cut the line at the different ports of entry in the El Paso area, officials say. Now, Juárez Road Safety Coordination agents are fining some of them. Last weekend, a video on social media showed an agent trying to take a man out of the line
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Update: A detective with LCPD’s Criminal Investigation Division stated in an arrest affidavit that when officers arrived, they found 10 people involved in an altercation outside. Court documents state that Jaime was holding a rifle and two officers had to wrestle it away from him. Jaime then allegedly resisted arrest, spitting in an officer’s face
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Update: Court documents state that a detective with the Hatch Police Department started looking into Martinez when a woman brought in her 15-year-old daughter’s cell phone, claiming to have found nude images on the device. The detective learned that the teen girl had sent at least one nude photo of herself to Martinez over Snapchat,
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Update: Cuccaro is the son of Council of Judges Director Michael Cuccaro. The elder Cuccaro confirmed his relationship to ABC-7, but did not want to comment on the sentencing. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A federal court just sentenced 22-year-old El Pasoan Michael Joseph Cuccaro to 15 years in prison for selling a fake M-30
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Juárez Road Safety Coordination agents carried out “Operation Fast and Furious” on 4 Siglos and Costa Rica Boulevard, in the El Chamizal area, as well as Margarito Herrera and Ramón Rayón, in Plaza Sendero Las Torres. The objective was to stop street racing in Juarez. They secured 108 cars, 35 in
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The family members of Némesis Giselle Aguirre Castrejón will gather today and tomorrow at a Juárez funeral home to say their last goodbye to the 16-year-old girl. In June, Némesis, along 13-year-old Ashley Daniela, and 14-year-old Ixchel Angelica, were killed in a car crash in Juárez allegedly caused by 45-year-old El
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that their Fourth of July response this year was one of the biggest of the year, with a significant increase in staffing and responses. “The Fourth of July is generally one of the busiest days of the year,” said Lt. Juan Ibarra,
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Some first responders in El Paso and surrounding areas are reporting a reduction in the amount of emergency calls they received and responded to on Thursday for the Fourth of July celebrations. The El Paso Fire Department reports it received 16 total fire calls between 8:31 PM Thursday evening through 5:40 AM Friday morning, consisting of 7
Continue Reading JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Today, two of the three girls killed in a car crash in Juárez were laid to rest. 45-year-old Henry Raygoza from El Paso is accused of causing the deadly crash. 13-year-old Ashley Daniela, 14-year-old Ixchel Angelica, and 16-year-old Nemesis Gisel died on Monday. Ashley and Angelica were buried today in South
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SOCORRO, New Mexico (KVIA) — Socorro Police have arrested multiple people connected to a shooting at Jardin de Flores Park in September 2023. Four people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the park shooting. Another shooting happened in El Paso in retaliation soon after, Socorro Police say. There are three people charged with aggravated assault (mass shooting):
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El Paso, TX (KVIA-TX)- As we watched the natural disaster unfold in Ruidoso last week, we all wanted to help the small community that had been ravaged by fire. As we watched the news, so did criminals, who will not hesitate to exploit you and others who want to help those who need help in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Two double homicides and one shooting happened Sunday in Las Cruces. Although one of the double homicides was a domestic crime, residents told ABC-7 they are concerned about crime rising across the city. “I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve lived here for 30 years. And I can’t recall
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — 18-year-old Landus Rivas and 19-year-old Gabriel Hernandez are charged with arson. Landus Rivas (Courtesy: Dona Ana County Detention Center) The El Paso teens were arrested in Dona Ana County on Sunday and booked into the the detention center there this morning. Gabriel Hernandez (Courtesy: Dona Ana County Detention
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — One person is in the hospital after being shot in Northeast El Paso Saturday morning, according to police. Police said Crimes Against Persons is investigating a “Burglary of Habitation” call at the 4800 block of Tholos Court shortly after 4:30 a.m. Police said not say how severe the victim’s injuries
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — Dona Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart has identified 26-year-old Michael Christopher Goodheart as the man that opened fire on a deputy following an erratic high speed chase that ended in a gunfight early Thursday morning. “He (Goodheart) was driving without his lights,” Stewart said. “And he was in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Pasoan Angela Barton still remembers the exact moment she realized her Kia Sorento had been broken into. The Northeast El Paso resident was headed to work in her other vehicle when she noticed her Kia was heavily damaged. Barton told ABC-7 that the vehicle had sentimental value since it
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TULAROSA, New Mexico (KVIA) — Otero County Sheriff deputies are looking for 41-year-old Tularosa resident James Martin. Officials say Martin violated his probation for criminal sexual penetration of a child by leaving Otero County. He was last seen in the El Paso/Sunland Park area, officials say. Courtesy: OCSO Martin is 5’9″ and weighs about 170
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CANUTILLO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies arrested and charged a man Thursday for threats outside at an El Paso County pool. El Paso County jail records show 19-year-old Jonathan Dominick Rubio is currently being held at the El Paso County Detention Facility for Terroristic Threat causes fear of imminent serious bodily injury.
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (KVIA) — An Alamogordo man will now serve 21 months in prison after a federal and state law enforcement investigation found more than a dozen firearms in his possession. According to the FBI, 42-year old Jonathan Bivins’s home was one of dozens of locations searched on August 31 of last year as
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — A Mexican national was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges related to a deadly human smuggling conspiracy last year. Rafael Radillo-Bernal, 40, pled guilty earlier this year for his role as a foot guide in the conspiracy, where officials said he threatened witnesses to cover up
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Dannia Gonzalez and Jonathan Ambriz were just arrested for outstanding theft of service warrants after deputies say they caught the pair attempting to scam El Pasoans. Deputies took Gonzalez and Ambriz into custody on the 13000 block of Sky Harbor June 6, 2024. Officials say the pair tried to get
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Crime Stoppers of El Paso is asking the public for help in identifying a person who shot at a Northeast El Paso home. On Friday, May 17, at 10:18 at night, multiple gunshots were fired from a car at a house located on Branon St. and Rushing. The vehicle that
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A migrant was found dead near the Rio Grande last Friday. Officials found the migrant’s body in a spot at the border wall near Yarbrough Dr. The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office confirmed to ABC-7 that they have not yet identified this person because he was not carrying any documentation when he
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Update: ABC-7 learned that Ricardo and Gabriela Castellano both bonded out of jail the same day they were arrested, according to jail bond records. We previously reported that Barrera bonded out of jail that same day. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 is looking into the arrests of two Socorro Independent School District (SISD) board
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – A man held up a pizzeria at gun point, and Crime Stoppers of El Paso is asking for the public’s help identifying the man. It happened on April 27 at about 10:40 p.m. at the Pizza Hut at 6110 Dyer in Northeast El Paso. Police say an armed man demanded
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A deadly shooting, that El Paso Police officials said happened Friday night, left residents in the area shaken. Police said officers were called out to the 6800 block of Bellrose around 9:45 p.m. Friday, for a domestic dispute that turned into a shooting. Most neighbors did not want to go
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexican authorities of all three levels of government have started operations to safeguard the Juárez International Airport due to a recent string of fatal shootings allegedly linked to human trafficking. The Juárez Police Department, Chihuahua Secretary of Public Safety, the National Guard, and the Mexican Army are some of the agencies
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has confirmed a man awaiting a retrial after his murder conviction was overturned is allowed to live outside the state of Texas while on bond. Leonel Hernandez was released from prison in March of this year, after he successfully appealed his 2019 conviction in the murder of Richard Madrigal.
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