As part of an ongoing investigation into Welfare Check, Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigators conducted a follow up interview 100 Rusty Drive at approximately 10:00 AM, on September 17, 2025. While conducting an interview with a resident of the home, Investigators observed a suspicious container with electronic components attached to it. For officer and public safety, Investigators and Deputies secured the home and evacuated the residence.

On Wednesday, a “suspicious device” found inside a home on Rusty Drive in the Val Verde Park Estates neighborhood sparked a multi-agency investigation. The device was initially thought to be explosive. In response, Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office issued an evacuation order for residents on Rusty Drive and Grissom Drive as a precautionary measure.

Del Rio News Network journalist Eddie Martinez is on the scene in Val Verde Park Estates, where authorities are investigating a...

According to the official Facebook account of the United States Border Patrol Del Rio Sector, three undocumented immigrants were found and taken into custody by USBP agents outside of Dollar Tree on Gibbs Street on Wednesday, September 3rd. The two adult males and one adult female were concealed inside a large tool chest being transported on the bed of a pickup-truck.

On Saturday, August 16, 2025, at approximately 10:58 p.m., Del Rio Police Department officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Far Hills Drive in reference to a disturbance call. Dispatch advised officers to use caution due to possible weapons involved.

According to a sources, a 12-year old girl called 911 to report a violent scene involving her parents at approximately 11PM Saturday evening on Far Hills Drive.

A significant human smuggling case originating from a traffic stop near Del Rio has concluded with a 10-year prison sentence for Cezanne Megel Patterson, age 29, of Jackson, Mississippi. Patterson was sentenced on July 24, 2025, after being convicted of smuggling 17 undocumented immigrants. Patterson was apprehended after a DPS Trooper stopped what appeared to be a Lowe’s Home Improvement Store delivery truck (coined as a “cloned truck”) on US-277 outside of town.

On April 20th, 2025, at approximately 8:55a.m. a Del Rio Police Department officer observed a silver in color, Nissan Rouge ran a stop sign at the intersection of West Garza Street and Broadbent Avenue.

A father and his two sons set up outside Del Rio Police Department headquarters Thursday to serve free pork ribs to about 50 officers and staff. Brad Bradley and his sons, C.R. and Heath, formerly owned a thriving barbecue business in the Texas Hill Country. They’ve since relocated to Del Rio, bringing their pitmaster barbecuing skills with them. While they’ll soon offer catering services locally, the Bradleys wanted to give back to the community before thinking about profit.

The United States Air Force announced in a statement the establishment of a new National Defense Area (NDA) at the U.S. southern border along approximately 250 miles of the Rio Grande in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties, TX, near Brownsville. NDAs are meant to "support the Department of Defense’s ongoing mission to secure the souther border", says the statement.

The City of Del Rio council members voted to enact "Noise and Sound Level Regulations" on Tuesday, which outlines unacceptable noise levels partly on the basis of their decibel measurement, though primarily on the judgement of individual officers' "common sense". The ordinance also provides city police officers the power to enforce the regulation whenever such a nuisance is reported.

Del Rio resident and U.S. citizen, Jose Manuel Villanueva, arrived to work as usual on Saturday morning, April 10, 2025. Villanueva clocked in on time around 10:00AM and was scheduled for a double that day. His shift at Long John Silver’s in Del Rio had just begun, when law enforcement agents filed into the establishment and placed him under arrest. Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led the operation, with support from state and city agencies.