{"id":117289,"date":"2026-01-09T21:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117289\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:15:15","slug":"watch-da-montoya-speaking-at-news-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117289\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: DA Montoya speaking at news conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; District Attorney James Montoya is holding a news conference Friday afternoon updating the public on his Office&#8217;s progress and his upcoming goals.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya is marking one year of service as El Paso&#8217;s district attorney. He was elected in November 2024 and sworn into office on January 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Montoya has closed a number of high-profile cases. Most notably, Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius took a <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/el-paso\/2025\/04\/21\/watch-live-aug-3-mass-shooter-plea-hearing-sentencing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plea<\/a> deal, closing the state&#8217;s case against him.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya&#8217;s news conference will happen at 2 p.m. Friday. Watch it live below:<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; District Attorney James Montoya is holding a news conference Friday afternoon updating the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-117289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}