Tag: Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)

With area residents counting down to the long Memorial Day weekend, Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz held his annual press conference on Friday morning announcing a “no-refusal DWI weekend” and urging residents not to mix alcohol and driving.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said a combination of unsafe speeds and wet roads on Sunday afternoon resulted in a fatal one-vehicle crash that killed a 57-year-old woman.

A man from Kerens, Texas, accused of murdering three women at a South Padre Island condo was found not guilty by a jury panel Friday following a week-long trial.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez and a chorus of others including the Texas Border Coalition and the truckers themselves on Thursday urged Gov. Greg Abbott to call off blanket inspections of Mexican trucks at two crossings that were wreaking chaos across the border.

Local law enforcement agencies partnered with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol at Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville on Tuesday for an exercise simulating the emergency response to an actual attempt by large numbers of migrants to storm the bridge and enter into the United States illegally.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash in Alamo Sunday morning that killed a man.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a one-vehicle crash that happened early Sunday morning that left a 21-year-old Roma woman dead.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a two-vehicle crash that resulted in the death of an Edinburg man.

A 21-year-old man who was pulled over last year in Harlingen for following another vehicle too closely, a traffic stop that resulted in the seizure of nearly 18 pounds of fentanyl and 23 pounds of methamphetamine, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

While speed demons may admire it, your average commuter will likely roll their eyes while shaking their heads.