Tag: Crime

EDINBURG — Aide Rios cried out for her teenage son, Jastin, here in court Thursday afternoon, sobbing that her soul had been ripped out after a vehicle crashed into their home and crushed him to death in 2021.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton teetered on the brink of impeachment Thursday after years of scandal, criminal charges and corruption accusations that the state's Republican majority had largely met with silence until now.

EDINBURG — A judge on Thursday afternoon sentenced a 24-year-old Pharr man to 15 years in prison for driving at a high rate of speed and crashing into an apartment hitting two minors, including a 16-year-old who died.

Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. “Eddie” Guerra revealed Wednesday afternoon that the wife of an Edinburg man killed by police Tuesday night had been pinned by his truck against her neighbor’s front door prior to the shooting.

BROWNSVILLE — Marisol Perez had just seen something rare and significant.

Three men who allegedly tried to export 7,000 rounds of high-powered ammunition into Mexico are in custody after Homeland Security Investigations tracked the attempt on Monday at a residence in Harlingen, an apartment in McAllen, and at the Pharr Port of Entry.

On Tuesday, Brownsville police arrested a 40-year-old man suspected of murdering a man who was found unresponsive on the side of a road Saturday morning.

A Mexican national pleaded guilty to possessing a little over 195 pounds concealed inside a tractor-trailer he was driving at the Falfurrias checkpoint on Nov. 13, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas.

Deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a man who tried to use his vehicle to hit his wife.

Border Patrol agents on Sunday arrested a man at the Falfurrias checkpoint after they found three people concealed in the spare tire compartment that was “screwed shut,” according to a criminal complaint.