{"id":237863,"date":"2026-04-06T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:26:24","slug":"el-paso-police-identify-woman-in-viral-arrest-video-release-mugshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237863\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso police identify woman in viral arrest video, release mugshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police released the mugshot of the woman seen in a viral video where she was struck by an officer while being arrested for a warrant. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman, identified as 28-year-old Kelcee Renee Hufford, was wanted on a family violence-related charge.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken into custody on Wednesday after allegedly refusing to comply with law enforcement officers, according to the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that during the encounter, Hufford did not comply with officers\u2019 commands.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, you can see two officers inside a house engaged in a physical struggle with a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the officers trying to arrest the woman while the woman is resting.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is seen screaming while another woman records.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the woman being arrested claims she was tased three times and says the officers are &#8220;holding her hostage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/video-shows-el-paso-officer-punching-woman-during-arrest-police-investigating-incident?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Video shows El Paso officer punching woman during arrest; police investigating incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woman also asks the officers for their badge numbers.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, one of the officers punches the woman&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>You can also hear the officer call the woman Kelce and say, &#8220;Kelcee, you have a warrant for your arrest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video also shows more officers responding to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is heard screaming, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: Video may be disturbing to some viewers. The video has profanity.<\/p>\n<p><p>Video shows El Paso officer punching woman during arrest; police investigating incident  (credit: Fitfam)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The woman recording is presumably the mom of the woman getting arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;mom&#8221; tells one of the officers her daughter has autism.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, authorities report that Hufford was also arrested on an additional charge of Resisting Arrest, Search, or Transport.<\/p>\n<p>Following her arrest, Hufford was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on both charges. <\/p>\n<p>She was later released on a personal recognizance bond.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the investigation into the incident remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police released the mugshot of the woman seen in a viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-237863","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\/237863","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=237863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}