El Paso County Sheriff’s’ Office announced Wednesday morning that one of the two escaped sex offenders has been captured. EPCSO officials say that deputies captured Timothy Sherwood. He was taken into custody and booked into the Downtown Detention Facility as of 12-21-2015 by the El Paso Police Department. Sherwood was charged additionally with Sex Offenders Duty to […]Read More
SANTA TERESA, N.M – Border Patrol Agents intercepted another wanted sex offender trying to sneak back into the U.S on Monday, this time in Santa Teresa. Agents on patrol near Sunland Park, New Mexico alertly located four men climbing through a hole in the international boundary fence in a notorious alien-smuggling area. Agents quickly responded and apprehended the group […]Read More
Tracking at night is an age-old skill passed along to each new generation of Border Patrol agents, and it’s still paying big dividends. Agents faced that challenge south of Lordsburg Tuesday night, and interrupted yet another drug smuggling effort. Just before sunrise yesterday, agents using night-vision technology spotted seven people walking in the desert with large backpacks, heading […]Read More
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico –Border Patrol Agents in New Mexico were busy intercepting law violators over the weekend, including one subject attempting to smuggle illegal narcotics through a traffic checkpoint. Late Saturday morning, a green SUV pulled up to the I-10 checkpoint west of Las Cruces, NM. During the immigration inspection, the driver became suspicious to agents because […]Read More
LORDSBURG, New Mexico – Tracking at night is not meant for everyone, but Border Patrol Agents make it an art-form. Agents were faced with that challenge south of Lordsburg last night, and were able to foil yet another drug smuggling effort thanks to those highly developed skills. On the morning of November 6th, Agents using night-vision technology […]Read More
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico –U.S. Border Patrol Agents at the Highway 70 Immigration Checkpoint outside of Alamogordo seized approximately $1-million in marijuana on October 30th that was concealed in a horse trailer. Early Friday morning, Border Patrol Agents working at the U.S. Immigration Checkpoint on U.S. Highway 70, west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, were routinely inspecting […]Read More
One man is behind bars after a deadly stabbing in Canutillo this weekend. According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, Deputies responded to a medical call along the 100 block of Dixie in Canutillo. Officials say that Deputies discovered that a fight had taken place between two of the people attending a party at that location. As […]Read More
El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputies are on the lookout for a sex offender who never made it to the facility just south of Horizon City. The failure to report by Robert Houston Hayes is just the latest in a string of either walk-aways or sex offenders who never show up at either of the two […]Read More
Three of El Paso County Sheriff’s Office “Most Wanted” individuals have been taken into custody is separate incidents over the last week. On Thursday, October 22nd, Alexis Cervantes, Age 30 was arrested by the Horizon City Police Department. Cervantes was taken into custody at the 200 block of Lago Grande and was booked on one count […]Read More
A vehicle pursuit through southern New Mexico leads to the arrest of an alleged car thief from Corpus Christi, Texas while Border Patrol agents working in Lordsburg snuff out multiple marijuana smuggling attempts this weekend. On Saturday afternoon, a blue Honda sedan failed to stop for an immigration inspection at the I-25 U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, north of […]Read More
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