A candidate for sheriff in South Texas allegedly embezzled more than $1 million from his family, his relatives claimed. The candidate reportedly used companies in Nicaragua to move funds between and from his security company in South Texas, a statement and an audit provided by the family revealed.
Texas sheriff’s deputies responded with Border Patrol agents after receiving a tip about a suspicious tractor-trailer in a residential neighborhood near the border. The law enforcement team found 84 migrants who had been offloaded from the 18-wheeler.
A smuggler drove his pickup truck loaded with migrants into the Rio Grande following a pursuit in South Texas. Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended five migrants as they swam to the U.S. riverbank from the sinking truck. The driver fled to Mexico.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents raided four human smuggling stash houses near the Texas border with Mexico during the past week. The raids led to the apprehension of nearly 100 migrants who were recently smuggled across the border. Additionally, agents found 24 migrants stashed in three vehicles being driven by suspected human smugglers.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 100 migrants in three human smuggling incidents. Two included crowded stash houses located near the Texas border with Mexico. The third was an illegal crossing thwarted by a new section of border wall.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with multiple law enforcement agencies to disrupt five human smuggling stash house operations last week.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector joined local sheriff’s deputies to rescue migrants from two human smuggling stash houses near the Texas border with Mexico.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector saved the lives of four illegal immigrants this week. Unfortunately, four other migrants died during human smuggling operations in South Texas.
Border Patrol agents working near the Rio Grande River border with Mexico identified five stash houses and arrested nearly 70 illegal immigrants inside. Agents worked with local law enforcement agencies to conduct the raids.
Border Patrol agents continue to find human smuggling stash houses along the Mexican border between the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo, Texas.
Federal agents apprehended a former Texas teacher at the U.S.-Mexico Border on an outstanding felony warrant filed against her for alleged sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old male student.
Authorities in Hidalgo County, Texas, are looking into the alleged murder of a newborn girl on Christmas weekend. The mother, who is in the country illegally, reportedly confessed to suffocating her.
EDINBURG, Texas — Three men and a woman are facing capital murder charges for their role in the kidnapping, torture, murder, and dismemberment of a local street-level drug dealer. The various body parts that made up the victim’s body were later found in a makeshift grave on a rural tract of land in South Texas.
A Texas border man previously wanted on child abuse charges has now been arrested in connection with a shooting and the kidnapping of his ex-girlfriend.
A raid by Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector yielded a stash of fifteen illegal aliens.
A man wanted for the pre-Thanksgiving murder of a Texas woman was arrested by federal officers as he attempted to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico.
EDINBURG, Texas — An illegal alien from Mexico and his wife have been arrested in connection with the abuse of a four-year-old girl, allegedly using hot water on her feet–causing second and third degree burns.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector assisted local law enforcement with the rescue of 20 illegal immigrants who were locked inside a cargo truck.
EDINBURG, Texas — Authorities have stopped a truck full of illegal immigrants that were being driven north as part of a failed human smuggling attempt.
Human smugglers packed two groups of illegal immigrants into two separate stash houses near the Texas border with Mexico in what Border Patrol agents called “deplorable conditions.” Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector teamed up with Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies and Alton police officers to pursue a tip received from neighbors about possible human smuggling stash houses.
EDINBURG, Texas — A Texas border man is facing capital murder charges in connection with the beating death of a two-year-old boy.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector rescued 36 illegal immigrants who were being warehoused by human smugglers just north of the Texas/Mexico border.
EDINBURG, Texas — Teams of gunmen have been running rampant in various communities near the Texas border, storming into homes demanding drugs or robbing victims at gunpoint.
U.S. Border Patrol agents working in Hidalgo County, Texas, busted an illegal immigrant stash house where more than 50 foreign nationals were being held.
EDINBURG, Texas — Law enforcement officials from this border region are coming together to help their fellow officers that have lost their homes to the flooding in Louisiana. Over the weekend off duty law enforcement officers started a collection drive to
Three men are recovering from bullet wounds sustained during a shooting at an underground cockfighting ring near the Texas border with Mexico.
The hunt is on for a man who allegedly tried to run over a Texas police officer and then climbed onto a cartel raft to flee into Mexico. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office released information about the case on Friday afternoon in an effort to get community members to call in with information as to the man’s identity.
An illegal alien convicted of crossing into Texas to rob illegal aliens and then cross back into Mexico will now spend five years in prison.
Authorities on the Texas border are searching for two men wanted for their alleged role in a drug shootout that left one man dead. One of the suspected murderers is believed to have fled into Mexico.
A fugitive accused in a Texas home invasion shootout that left two men dead has been arrested in Mexico. The shootout began when the suspect and a group of gunmen allegedly stormed a rural home to steal a load of drugs.
Police officers from this border city were forced to shoot at a car thief who was trying to drive a stolen car into Mexico and rammed police vehicles in an effort to flee.
The motto of “In God We Trust” continues to spread among Texas law enforcement agencies in this border area. Two of the most active agencies in the area have now placed the decals on their patrol vehicles in what they are calling a rallying point for all law enforcement.
A 17-year-old teenage gang member was killed by his own group of gunmen during a failed attempt to steal a drug load that was being stashed at a house.
Authorities continue to search for multiple gunmen in connection with a home invasion turned drug shootout that killed two men last month near this border city.
EDINBURG, Texas — Authorities at the Texas border arrested a man who is believed to have crossed multiple times into America to hold female illegal aliens at gunpoint to rob them–the man would then swim back to Mexico in order to avoid capture.
EDINBURG, Texas—A bullet fired during a shootout near the Texas border barely missed striking a deputy on his side–the grazing shot tore a piece off of his uniform.
