Tag: Roma

A 35-year-old Roma man on Thursday was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after being found with 5,460 pounds of marijuana with an estimated value of $33 million.

Border Patrol agents and the Roma Police Department on Saturday apprehended 20 people in the country illegally hidden inside a vacant apartment while taking the alleged smuggler into custody.

A former Starr County Sheriff’s Office jailer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to straw purchasing a firearm receiver on behalf of a Mexican national.

Cities across the Rio Grande Valley are distributing sandbags ahead of heavy rainfall that’s expected to arrive sometime Wednesday.

McALLEN — A former Roma police officer wanted on federal drug charges surrendered to authorities after spending more than a decade on the lam in Mexico.

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After 43 years on the bench, state District Judge Mario E. Ramirez Jr. will be setting down the gavel one last time at the end of next December.

A Chinese man who was arrested in May for possessing and transporting child pornography after illegally entering the United States pleaded guilty and has been convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern for District of Texas.

At the UIL 5A State Marching Band competition with about half the size of other bands, the Roma High School marching band went above and beyond by becoming the first Valley 5A band in history to advance to the state finals, according to band director Dena Laurel.

A man has been arrested for stealing pick-up trucks in McAllen and taking them to Mexico where at least one was later recovered in Reynosa with ballistic glass and armor plating.