WEBB COUNTY, TX (The Laredo Morning-Times) A man arrested last month after several children were found living in deplorable conditions has now been accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, who is pregnant with his child, according to court documents.
Edas Alonso Lopez-Castillo, 25, told authorities he had asked her parents for permission to be with her, states a criminal complaint.
Lopez-Castillo, of Honduras, was served with an arrest warrant July 7 charging him with sexual assault. He remains behind bars at the Webb County Jail.
The case unfolded June 10, when police responded to a child abandonment report in the 2200 block of Cedar Avenue. A naked 2-year-old girl had been found banging on the door of a home.
Officers forced the door open to check on the welfare of the parents. Inside, authorities said they found fecal matter, trash and dirty laundry. Officers then found three more children — ages 1, 4 and 7 — unsupervised in a small swimming pool in the back of the house, according to police.
All were in good health, according to court documents.
Police then located a locked room with the 15-year-old girl and...
Anti-free speech activist Yvette Felarca was arrested Tuesday night for her role in the violent June 2016 riot at the Capitol in Sacramento.
Felarca, who was filmed attacking a man while screaming "get the f**k off our streets," was charged with assault with a deadly weapon or by means of force likely to inflict great bodily injury, inciting a riot and participating in a riot.
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Yvette Felarca, the controversial Berkeley middle school teacher who frequently marches and protests against groups she considers to be fascistic, was arrested Tuesday night in connection with a violent neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento in June 2016.
Police took Felarca, 47, into custody in Southern California on charges of assault by means of force likely to inflict great bodily injury, a felony, and participating in a riot, and inciting a riot, both...
Engineers are drilling and taking soil samples to determine what type of barriers would be most effective in the different types of geography along the border, said David Lapan, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.
The drilling and soil testing are taking place in El Paso; Santa Teresa, N.M.; Calexico, Calif.; San Diego; and the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Mr. Lapan said the testing has been completed in El Paso and Calexico. The agency has identified the San Diego area and the Rio Grande Valley as priority regions for new border walls.
The drilling and testing come as Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, continues to evaluate dozens of proposals that have been submitted by vendors for designs for a border wall.
President Trump mandated construction of the wall in an executive order in January. In March, the Department of Homeland Security put out a call for prototypes of a “physically imposing” and “aesthetically pleasing” border wall. The structure would also be designed to prevent climbing and tunneling.
The president’s plan to build a border wall was part of a contentious budget fight in Congress this year. The administration was seeking $3.6 billion in the 2017 and 2018 budgets for just over 100 miles of wall. But members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — have so far declined to provide funding for the project and instead...
