A 60 year old Roma woman is facing an assault charge. She told a deputy she hit her adult son. It happened during a fight at their home. Starr County deputies arrested Nerida Benavidez and charged her with assault. The charge stems from a fight on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

A sworn complaint accuses Jose Javier Hernandez of breaking into a home that belongs to Israel Rios in Starr County. Hernandez faces one count of burglary of a habitation. That charge is a serious felony that can mean 2 to 20 years in prison. The case comes from the Starr

A fight outside a Brownsville Golden Corral turned into gunfire Wednesday night. A stranger walked up to a restaurant worker with a gun in the parking lot. Now police have charged a 44 year old man in the case. William Lleo, 44, faces a charge of aggravated assault with a

The U.S. government filed new charges this week against eight top leaders of one of Mexico's most violent cartels. Federal agents are now offering up to $102 million in rewards for tips that lead to their capture. The charges target the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, known as

A federal jury found a Mexican man guilty this week of running a massive drug pipeline through Laredo. Wblester Villanueva Echeverria, 30, hid tons of meth and cocaine inside food shipments crossing the border. The drugs were worth about $157 million. Jurors took about six hours to reach their verdict.

DALLAS - Dallas County will not seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing his boss at a Dallas motel. Yordanis Cabos-Martinez, 37, is from Cuba. Police say he got into a fight with his boss on Sept. 10. His boss was the motel manager. The manager died.

A Roma teen is facing four felony charges. Police say he broke into his own boss's car wash, then later called that same boss with threats. Gustavo Alexander Gonzalez, born in 2007, is charged in City of Roma Municipal Court. He faces two counts of burglary of a

Police in Rio Grande City arrested a 29 year old man. He broke an apartment window during a fight with his common law wife. He also ripped an air conditioner out of the wall. Officers say Xavier Hernandez did the damage while drunk. He was mad at his common law

Federal judges in East Texas handed out some of the toughest drug sentences of the year this summer. The cases hit meth, cocaine and fentanyl pills tied to cartel networks moving into the United States. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas announced the

A federal judge says a jury will decide if a Michigan police officer broke the law. The officer shot a Black man in the back of the head. The ruling clears the way for a trial. It could also lead to a settlement. This comes more than four years after

Cops charged a La Grulla man with a serious felony. A Friday morning attack left another man bleeding and badly hurt. Mark Anthony Salinas, 31, of La Grulla, now faces one count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. That is a felony that can mean 2 to 20 years

A Starr County teen is facing a serious felony charge. Investigators say he guided five people around Border Patrol agents. It happened early Friday morning. The time was about 5:45 a.m. on July 24, 2026. The spot was near the Border Patrol station in Rio Grande City. The