A Houston lawyer now fights his own case. His name is Hugo Balderas-Ibarra. He speaks for two men. They rode in a van during a deadly ICE shooting. Court papers show the lawyer faces a felony charge in Harris County. That charge is assault. He also just settled a

ICE agents arrested 238 people in the Rio Grande Valley. This all happened in one day. It is the most arrests ever in one day for the Harlingen ICE office. That office is based here in South Texas. The arrests happened on June 18. Local, state and federal officers worked

Ken Paxton held a rally in McAllen. It was Tuesday night. He talked about the border. Big news broke just hours before. Washington had told border agents to stop making arrests at traffic stops. Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate. He is a Republican. He spoke at University

A Border Patrol agent from Mercedes is in trouble again. He now faces a new child sex charge. This time a different victim came forward. Hidalgo County jail records show it. Derek James Dominguez was booked on July 2. This is not his first arrest. He already had an earlier

Gov. Greg Abbott spoke out Wednesday. He talked about an ICE shooting. ICE agents shot a Houston-area man. They killed him. "Any loss of life is tragic," Abbott said. ICE shot the man on July 7. Agents later said he was not their target that day. Abbott

A man from Bangladesh stood before a federal judge in Laredo on Monday. His name is Saifullah Al-Mamun. People call him Mamun. Agents say he ran a smuggling ring. The ring moved migrants from Bangladesh all the way to South Texas. Federal officials say Mamun charged high fees. He

A welfare check on Mallard Drive in Texas City turned deadly on Thursday. Police found a 42-year-old woman with a gunshot wound. She was later pronounced dead. Now a 73-year-old man sits in jail on a murder charge. Police got the call about 3 p.m.

A federal judge gave an MS-13 gang member more prison time. He hit a top prison official during lunch at Yazoo Correctional Complex in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Bryan Galicia-Barillas is 29. He is from Guatemala. He got the new time on June 30, 2026. It adds 18 more

On July 13, 2026, a federal prosecutor stood up in a McAllen courtroom. He spoke to the jury. "This case is about a deal, dollars and deception," he said. He was opening the trial of Veronica O'Cana. She is a real estate broker from the Mission

Derrick Terelle Sankey walked into a Whataburger. He was in Hidalgo, Texas. He wore his Alabama National Guard uniform. He drove a marked Border Patrol vehicle. He came to get a kilo of drugs. It was all a trap. Secret agents watched him walk up. They watched him ask for

A 57 year old tech executive is dead after a shooting inside her own home in Cobb County, Georgia. Police say Shital "Sheetal" Wrzesien was shot and killed Tuesday night at her house near Smyrna. Her husband, Kirk B. Wrzesien, 56, now faces murder charges. The case matters

A San Antonio teenager will spend the next 25 years in prison. His carjacking killed an 80 year old man. Zachariah Aguirre is 19 now. He was only 15 when he carjacked Larry Brister and dragged him down a North Side street in February 2023. This case matters because it