Tag: Harlingen Police Department

HARLINGEN — Like law enforcement agencies across the country, the Harlingen Police Department’s demand for the latest technology in fighting crime is bumping up the city’s biggest budget.

A jury on Tuesday was unable to come to a decision on whether a 35-year-old man was guilty of capital murder for the April 2017 death of 2-year-old Katalina Desiree Castaneda.

HARLINGEN — State officials Tuesday were investigating a Russian extortion group’s breach of the Harlingen Police Department’s data technology system.

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.

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.

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.

HARLINGEN — Authorities are investigating the biggest fentanyl outbreak to spread across the area, leading to what they believe have been eight deaths and six overdoses in the last two weeks, including two deaths and an overdose since early Tuesday morning.

HARLINGEN — Family and friends are remembering Guy Anderson as a loving husband and father who became the longest-serving police chief in the city’s history, helping to transform the police department.

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

HARLINGEN — After more than a year, city leaders and school officials continue negotiating a campus security agreement they had been automatically renewing for about 20 years.