Tag: Crime

McAllen police are on the lookout for two men whom they say broke into an unoccupied home on Sunday.

A Brownsville man is in federal custody after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found nearly 101 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a 2019 Dodge Charger he drove to the Gateway International Bridge.

Federal prosecutors have charged seven with conspiring to smuggle more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and high-powered weapons into Mexico.

PRIMERA — Harlingen police Friday arrested a man during a raid on a Primera home where they netted more than 45 grams of fentanyl amid the area's biggest outbreak of the powerful opioid they blame for eight area deaths.

The Progeso school district's board president and that municipality's assistant city manager is in custody on federal drug trafficking charges.

The final suspect in the Aug. 6 shooting at an Edinburg nightclub has been arrested.

HARLINGEN — A judge ordered a 21-year-old Harlingen man held on $200,000 in bonds after charging him in connection with a shooting that left his 7-year-old niece in the hospital with gunshot wound to her leg.

The jury deliberating the fate of the Harlingen man convicted of attempted capital murder of his ex-girlfriend were sent home last night after District Attorney Toribio “Terry” Palacios made a deal with the man’s defense attorney, according to court staff.

A 19-year-old Donna woman facing an intoxication manslaughter charge is accused of killing her passenger after rolling her vehicle following a dance at an unnamed bar in Alamo.

HARLINGEN — Police are tracking down the supplier and dealers spiking cocaine and crack with fentanyl to make the drug stronger, luring addicts to deadly doses in the biggest outbreak of the powerful opioid to hit the area, officials said.