Tag: Mission

A Mission man was arrested on Dec. 5 after it was discovered that he had purchased sexually explicit photos of a minor in Colorado using Instagram and paying her with a gift card from a popular online game for children called Roblox, according to a criminal complaint.

MISSION — Jesus Gonzalez Balderas is everything to his family, and they’re everything to him.

A mother and son who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking undocumented women and girls for more than 20 years out of two Mission bars have been sentenced.

MISSION — On the corner of Inspiration Road sits a small yellow apartment that a family of seven calls home.

MISSION — Elida Reyna, a great grandmother of three girls has been their guardian ever since the state granted her custody in 2014 and with the costs of raising three young girls becoming more expensive and recent medical emergencies to herself and her husband, she said the family is in need of help.

A former Mission High School substitute teacher will serve a decade in federal prison for coercion and enticement of a minor.

A Mission man has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to his involvement in a fatal smuggling conspiracy, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas.

A state trooper was released from a local hospital after sustaining injuries in a hit-and-run crash outside of Palmview early Saturday morning, according to a news release.

State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, has officially filed to run for a seventh term in the Texas Senate.

Son of a nutcracker!