Tag: Willacy County Sheriff’s Office

The manhunt for alleged killer Mario Martinez, wanted for the 7:45 p.m. Tuesday shooting of his half-brother Reynaldo Acosta, ended late Wednesday when he was captured by Raymondville police and other agencies at a house in the 1200 block of West Tampico Street.

RAYMONDVILLE — Willacy County officials are paying a 33-year-old man’s family a $1 million settlement nearly two years after attorneys charged deputies beat him to death in the county jail.

Willacy County Sheriff’s Office investigators are looking into the death of a Willacy County Jail inmate.

Lyford school police and other local police agencies went on alert late Tuesday after a threat was made that was treated as an “active shooter” incident.

Seven Rio Grande Valley school districts on Monday reported receiving an emailed bomb threat that did not originate locally, which does not appear credible.

Federal prosecutors on Friday charged a Houston man with possession with the intent to distribute nearly 16 pounds of cocaine following a routine traffic stop in Willacy County.

A Willacy County man had charges against him upgraded to murder after one of the victims he allegedly shot was pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to a news release from the county’s sheriff’s office.

RAYMONDVILLE — The Willacy County District Attorney’s Office is pursuing criminal charges against deputies involved in a jail inmate’s death, an attorney stated Friday.

LASARA — Willacy County sheriff’s officials are investigating a case in which a 2-year-old boy apparently accidentally fatally shot himself, with the bullet injuring his father.

SEBASTIAN — Willacy County sheriff’s deputies today arrested three family members in connection with the January 2021 death of a 13-year-old boy, Sheriff Joe Salazar said.