Texas police and Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents identified an abandoned child as a Salvadoran unaccompanied minor. Smugglers abandoned the child at a Walmart store near the Texas-Mexico border.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A police officer from this border city is expected to be released on bond following her arrest on federal human smuggling charges for allegedly trying to get her boyfriend past an immigration checkpoint.
Authorities identified a Cuban immigrant with a long arrest history as the man who violently shanked a corrections officer in the neck. The man then stole the guard’s weapons, murdered an innocent man, and engaged police in a short but fierce gun battle that led to his death.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, — An inmate in this border county stabbed a sheriff’s deputy, took his service weapons, and killed a man before leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a deadly shootout.
A convicted human smuggler will be spending 20-years in prison for having kidnapped a group of illegal immigrants for ransom, and for raping at least one woman that he had in his house.
A maintenance worker assigned to the police department in this border city has been arrested for using his government vehicle to move four kilograms of cocaine.
The son of a previous top leader of the Gulf Cartel spent the night in jail after authorities arrested him for driving without a license.
A teacher at an elementary school near Brownsville, Texas is one of four men behind bars on charges of luring a 16-year-old girl into a life of prostitution and drug dealing with social media.
