According to official records obtained by El Tejano, the following details come from criminal complaint documents filed in Starr County. Leopoldo Alanis Pena, 41, faces a 2nd Degree Felony. That means 2 to 20 years in prison. The charge: Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. Alanis Pena is a

According to official records obtained by El Tejano, the following details come from criminal complaint documents filed in Starr County. Jose Luis Cruz Jr. is 37. He lives in Rio Grande City. He faces one charge. He is charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon. That is a 2nd Degree

The bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros moves thousands of cars and trucks every day. Some of the fuel on those trucks is legal. A lot of it is not. A family with ties on both sides of that bridge has been linked to those criminal networks for years. El Tejano

A man known as "BJ" stood in front of a federal judge on July 1, 2026. He said he robbed game rooms with a gun. He is the fourth of five charged men to admit guilt. The fifth is headed to trial. Bobby Joe Rosa, a/k/a

A man who changed his name to Santa Claus is in jail in Louisiana. Police say he tried to meet a boy he thought was 15 years old. The boy was really an undercover cop. The man is 75 years old. His old name was George Quigley. He lived in

A Rio Grande City woman is in the Brooks County Jail. A state trooper stopped her on US Highway 281 in Encino Tuesday. He found 75 pounds of cocaine inside her SUV. Maria Briceno, 38, agreed to let the trooper search her car. He found 30 bundles of cocaine packed

Pennsylvania has 84 confirmed measles cases so far this year. Seventy-two of those are from one outbreak. It started in Lebanon and Lancaster counties in late April. The rest of the U.S. is also seeing cases, including Texas. South Texas families need to pay attention. As of June

A man is dead. His roommate shot him in the chest late Saturday night. It happened on the 1600 block of Vassar Street in Houston. Police got the call at about 11:55 p.m. They arrived and found the man shot. Houston Fire workers got there too. They pronounced

A Travis County judge has set a trial date for the man accused of killing six people in a single day across Central Texas. Shane Matthew James Jr., 37, of San Antonio, is charged with capital murder. His trial is set to begin October 26, 2026. Capital murder in Texas

Police say three women stabbed a Del Rio mom of five to death on Thursday. The attack happened near a Sonic on one of the city's busiest roads. The victim was Caroline "Caro" Pena, 32. She was stabbed many times that afternoon. Pena reached Val Verde

The flu hit Lackland Air Force Base hard this month. By June 25, 2026, 275 recruits had tested positive. One week before, there were only 160 cases. Lackland is in San Antonio, Texas. It is where the Air Force trains all its new recruits. Four recruits were sent to the

A Fort Worth father is behind bars on a capital murder charge. Police say he beat his 9-year-old daughter to death with a belt after she wet the bed. Marquise Dayshun Anderson, 35, was arrested Tuesday, June 24. He sits in the Fort Worth Jail on a $750,