Tag: Crime

A 27-year-old Edinburg man died early Tuesday evening after his vehicle skidded off the road and rolled over, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a news release.

Former Starr County attorney Victor Canales pleaded guilty to extorting a mother who went to him for help over her son’s traffic tickets.

A Mexican man was arrested Friday at the Hidalgo port of entry after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found he was hauling nearly 95 pounds of cocaine and almost 30 pounds of methamphetamine.

An Edinburg man who was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 29 for attempting to smuggle nearly three dozen people in an RV through the Falfurrias checkpoint changed his story several times and couldn't remember some details because he was high on methamphetamine, according to a criminal complaint.

Three women who sustained “serious injuries” are in the hospital after an Edinburg man suspected of driving drunk ran a red light after a police officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop early Sunday morning, police say. 

HARLINGEN — "We have a $700 check for you. We just need your information."

MISSION — A defense attorney is asking the public and police for answers regarding the death of his client who died in Alton police custody.

A brother and sister from Hidalgo County have pleaded not guilty to an 18-count indictment accusing them of defrauding a federal workers’ compensation program out of $80 million.

A former Pharr Police Department recruit has been sentenced to a little more than four years in federal prison for smuggling tracer-equipped .50 caliber ammunition into Mexico.

McAllen police arrested and charged last Wednesday a former Edinburg school district employee with improper relationship between an educator and student two years after the district allegedly transferred that employee from his job at a middle school because of his closeness with the student, according to police documents.