{"id":181124,"date":"2026-02-26T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181124\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:28:13","slug":"texas-top-10-most-wanted-gang-member-arrested-in-mexico-for-el-paso-murder-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181124\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Top 10 Most Wanted gang member arrested in Mexico for El Paso murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772105292_233_image-7.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive and documented Piru gang member was detained by Mexican law enforcement on Feb. 19, 2026, in Tijuana, Mexico, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>   Capture of Texas Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">On Feb. 21, 2026,\u00a025-year-old Elijah Turner Reyes\u00a0was deported to the U.S. where he was turned over to U.S. law enforcement authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772105292_466_elijah-turner-reyes.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  El Paso murder warrants <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Reyes had been wanted by the El Paso police since May 22, 2025, for murder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Additionally, on June 16, 2025, warrants were issued out of El Paso County for his arrest for failing to appear in court for prior charges related to burglary of habitation, possession of a controlled substance and assaulting a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">In 2019,\u00a0Reyes\u00a0was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to five years of confinement. He was discharged from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in Jan 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Texas Crime Stoppers tip <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Members of the U.S. Marshals Lone Star fugitive task force in El Paso, including DPS special agents, led the investigation. The El Paso Police Department also assisted in this investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Reyes\u2019 capture was the result of tipping information received through Texas Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772105293_140_gang-member-captures.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Texas Crime Stoppers was previously offering a reward of up to $7,500 for Reyes, so a reward will be paid for the anonymous tipster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Texas DPS.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/immigration\/us-border-security\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Border Security<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive and documented Piru gang member was detained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1046,138,140,139,1724,223,216,393,21396],"class_list":["post-181124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-us-border-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181124","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=181124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}