Tag: Courts

A former Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison for trafficking drugs.

A 38-year-old Mexican national living in Weslaco has been ordered to federal prison after it was discovered he was downloading child sex abuse material using a peer-to-peer file sharing program between 2021 and 2023, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Southern District of Texas.

AUSTIN (AP) — Newly acquitted of impeachment charges, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is back on the job and getting back to the usual.

A charge of murder against a 43-year-old Mission man has been dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

A 28-year-old Edinburg man accused of running a red light early Saturday morning before killing a 26-year-old woman told police he couldn’t remember where he was going or coming from and kept fainting at the scene of the crash.

A judge has ordered that a 27-year-old Alamo man charged in a bloody double stabbing that resulted in the deaths of two men at a McAllen Motel 6 will be examined to determine whether he is competent to stand trial.

Shaun J. Kelly, former assistant director of the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport, filed a lawsuit against the city of Brownsville on July 21 alleging that he was fired for being gay.

Former City Manager and Chief of Police Andy Harvey is taking his former employer, the city of Pharr, to court in an effort to compel the city to release a voluminous open records request he filed.

Pharr police say a 26-year-old man accused of a fatal Monday shooting has surrendered.