Tag: Mercedes Police Department

A 69-year-old Harlingen woman was arrested Friday for the death of her passenger after she crashed her vehicle while intoxicated in December of last year.

The city of Mercedes announced on Thursday the appointment of a new police chief said to bring a wealth of experience, leadership and commitment to community safety.

The brother of the 37-year-old Mercedes man who was sentenced to 85 years in prison for stabbing and killing a 16-year-old teen in 2020 pleaded guilty to murder Monday morning and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

A 59-year-old La Feria man is facing a charge of animal cruelty after Mercedes police say he shot a dog on Wednesday.

The Mercedes Police Department said there are no injuries following a shooting that happened Monday afternoon near the Mercedes Early College Academy.

A 45-year-old Mercedes man was charged with animal cruelty Wednesday after police found his dog severely infested with ticks and malnourished, leading to the dog's death.

A 31-year-old Mercedes man who broke into his ex-girlfriend’s house at 3 a.m. and held a gun to her head while her children were in the house and shot at police has been sentenced to a decade in prison.

The lawman who last fall billed himself as the “last chief that Mercedes will have” has stepped down after just nine months leading the Mercedes Police Department.

MERCEDES — After several years in limbo — with officers working out of a cramped public works building while prisoners have spent their stays in neighboring Weslaco — officials here have committed to renovating the Mercedes Police Department building on South Ohio Street that was once deemed unsafe for human occupation.

A Mercedes man was killed Saturday morning after the all-terrain vehicle he was driving struck a concrete barrier and turned over, police said.