Emmanuel Ravell gets 25 Years for Recruiting Individual to Transport Meth
A 25-year-old resident of Brownsville has been ordered to prison for 300 months for his role in recruiting a female to carry almost four kilograms of “ice” to Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. More...
Texas border patrol arrests more sex offenders, MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, drug runners
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley arrested two sex offenders and a gang member in separate incidents. Friday, agents from the Fort Brown Station working near Brownsville, Texas, arrested a Salvadoran More...
Border wall gate construction begins in Texas
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, awarded a contract to construct border wall gates in the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, More...
Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Arrests multiple MS-13 Gang Members
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley continue to encounter violent gang members. Sunday night, Brownsville agents arrested four illegal aliens after entering the United States. During processing, record More...
Texas: Local Zika transmission reported in Brownsville
Texas health officials announced today the first case of Zika virus disease likely transmitted by a mosquito in Brownsville, Texas. The patient is a Cameron County resident who is not pregnant and who was confirmed More...
Texas dengue fever update: 25 cases in Cameron County
Last Friday, the Cameron County Department of Health and Human Services issued a dengue advisory, which stated that there were 14 cases of the mosquito borne viral disease in the county. Photo/CDC-James Gathany In More...
South Texas county reports 14 dengue fever cases
Health officials in the southernmost county in the state of Texas are investigating an increase in the number of dengue fever cases recently, according to a Cameron County Department of Health and Human Services More...
Jaime Gonzalez, Brownsville eighth grader, shot and killed by police – had pelletgun
A student brings a gun and a knife to school and bad things happen. The 15 year-old kid behaved like he had a death wish, even pointing the gun at the police, which turned out to be a pellet gun. Below is the More...
