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El Paso police gang investigators assisted by SWAT officers arrested a young man and his mother during separate busts, a police spokesman said.
The Gang Unit and officers with the special weapons and tactics team carried out arrest warrants Thursday, May 6, at two homes about two miles apart in the Northeast/Central area.
Gang investigators arrested 22-year-old Andre Sigales at a home in the 3500 block of Thomason Avenue in the Logan Heights neighborhood, Sgt. Enrique Carrillo, a police spokesman, said.
Investigators arrested Sigales mother, Sonia Veronica Rascon, 39, at a home in the 3700 block of Hamilton Avenue in the Central area, police said.
Federal agents in El Paso arrested an Army National Guard soldier, who is also a New York City Rikers Island correction officer, accused of falsifying military paperwork and signatures in a work fraud scheme.
Shawn Pierre Hobbs, 34, a member of the Connecticut Army National Guard, was arrested Monday in El Paso on federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges out of Manhattan.
El Paso County Jail records show that Hobbs, of Roosevelt, New York, was booked by the FBI. He is being held pending extradition. It has not been disclosed why Hobbs was in El Paso.
Army National Guard soldiers have civilian jobs while serving in the military part time.
EL PASO, TEXAS (Tribune News Service) Federal agents in
El Paso arrested an
Army National Guard soldier, who is also a
New York City Rikers Island correction officer, accused of falsifying military paperwork and signatures in a work fraud scheme.
Shawn Pierre Hobbs, 34, a member of the
Connecticut Army National Guard, was arrested Monday in
El Paso on federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges out of
Manhattan.
Roosevelt, N.Y., was booked by the
FBI. He is being held pending extradition. It has not been disclosed why Hobbs was in
El Paso.
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