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EDINBURG, Texas (CBP) – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted three human smuggling events and encountered two large groups resulting in 322 apprehensions. On April 26, Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint agents, after a K-9 alert, referred a truck pulling a flatbed trailer carrying large metal sided boxes to the secondary inspection area. Agents observed a vent, approximately 16 inches by 6 inches on one of the boxes and removed the vent to reveal 40 migrants in a seated position trapped inside. The metal sided box had to be broken apart by unscrewing multiple bolts using a power...

...on voter fraud charges. A South Texas mayor and his wife have been arrested on voter fraud charges, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday. City of Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and his wife, Dalia, are charged with illegal voting, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in jail and an up to $10,000 fine, related to his 2017 mayoral election. Molina unseated the incumbent Mayor Richard Garcia after winning by more than 1,200 votes in that election... ...The Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office will prosecute both cases with the help of the attorney general’s election fraud unit. According...

Nine people were arrested in connection to a voter fraud scheme in Edinburg, Texas. The fraudulent voters lied about their address in order to vote for candidate Richard Molina. Ten people were registered to vote from the same Edinburg address.

NEAR EDINBURG — The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s office is investigating an alleged home invasion that led to the shooting deaths of two men early Saturday morning. About 2 a.m., the sheriff’s office received a call of shots fired and possibly a man down at the 52000 block of Nicole St., said Sheriff Lupe Treviño. “We got there and found two men dead,” Treviño said. “One of the men was inside the house, the other man was outside the house.” Because the investigation was in its early stages, authorities couldn’t disclose many details, but Treviño said the investigation points to a...

Note: The following text is a quote: Three Convicted in International Truck Theft Conspiracy Sentenced to Prison HOUSTON—Three men who conspired to steal and transport millions of dollars of truck tractors, trailers and other heavy equipment to Central America have been sentenced to prison, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Rito Jasso-Zorilla, 32, Victor Antonio Garcia, 27, and Orlando Gonzalez Huerta, 29, all citizens of Mexico, were sentenced by United States District Judge David Hittner this morning for their respective roles in assisting Yuri David Melendez, 42, of Houston, with the far-reaching scheme. Beginning in 2001, Melendez received requests...

Police use raids to arrest 4 men in massacre 01/25/2003 EDINBURG, Texas – Dozens of police officers in pre-dawn raids arrested four suspects in the Jan. 5 massacre of six men. Police said some of the suspects may also have ties to September's slaughter of four women in Donna, which they said had pointed to retaliatory actions taken by a group calling itself the Tri City Bombers. All suspects arrested Friday were to be charged with six counts of capital murder in January's killings. Identities were being withheld, pending formal charges. The arrests bring to five the number of suspects...

Man held in killing of 6 men in Valley More arrests seen in what police call a home invasion gone bad 01/18/2003 By BRENDA RODRIGUEZ / The Dallas Morning News BROWNSVILLE - A 25-year-old Lower Rio Grande Valley man was being held Friday in lieu of $18 million bail for the shooting deaths of six men in what border officials here say was one of the worst massacres in recent years. Police say they expect more arrests. Marcial Bocanegra was charged with six counts of capital murder and is being held at the Hidalgo County jail. "Normally on capital...

Man arrested in Valley massacre 01/16/2003 Associated Press EDINBURG, Texas - A 25-year-old Brownsville man was arrested and charged with six counts of capital murder Thursday in the home invasion earlier this month in which six men were killed in a spray of gunfire. Police Chief Quirino Munoz said he would not release the name of the man because of the ongoing investigation. Munoz said the man would probably be arraigned on the charges early Friday. "As a result of our investigation, we've taken one individual into custody," he said. "Basically, we've been working round the clock since this...

City police offer reward in multiple murder 01/08/2003 Associated Press EDINBURG, Texas - Lacking leads in the slayings of six men who died in a spray of gunfire during a home invasion, police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to conviction. Edinburg Police Chief Quirino Munoz said he expected investigators to finish gathering clues Wednesday at the two ramshackle houses sharing a semirural lot of this Texas-Mexico border city. The mother of two victims was left bound but alive in the larger house, where one of her sons was killed. The other five victims were in the...

Victims ID'd in Valley home invasion killings 01/05/2003 Associated Press EDINBURG, Texas - Police in this border town searched the site of two ramshackle homes for details in a home invasion that left six young men dead and the mother of two of them bound in electrical cord. Aside from a rental car that had been ransacked at the scene and a missing pickup truck that belonged to one of the victims, investigators reported little in the way of leads in the 1 a.m. Sunday killing. On Monday, Police Chief Quirino Munoz identified the victims as Jerry Hidalgo, 24,...

Fake cops kill 6 men in home invasion   By Macarena Hernandez San Antonio Express-News   Web Posted : 01/06/2003 12:00 AM   EDINBURG — Gunmen dressed as cops barged into two homes in a rural neighborhood here early Sunday, killing six men after demanding drugs, money and weapons, local authorities said. The home invasion robbery claimed the lives of two sets of brothers from different families — the only four victims that had been identified by late evening, although authorities were not releasing their names. "We are still trying to identify the other individuals (and) because of the...

Six men were shot to death early Sunday in a home invasion, Edinburg police said. Police believe the assailants were searching for weapons and drugs. A witness, who was tied up during the shooting, told police that one of the assailants wore some clothing that carried the word "police" on it. Police had made no arrests late Sunday afternoon, Sgt. Rey Ramirez said. Five people were found dead in one house and another person dead in a second house on the same property, Ramirez said. Police were called to the rural scene by the survivor. Neighbors reported hearing shots...