{"id":442089,"date":"2026-09-20T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442089\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:39:08","slug":"wanted-woman-located-in-mexico-returned-to-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442089\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted woman located in Mexico, returned to El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A woman wanted on charges including collision involving death and driving while intoxicated with a child under 15 has been located in Mexico and returned to El Paso, according to the El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s Office said 29-year-old Melanie Christine Cuellar was located in Mexico through an investigation involving the Sheriff&#8217;s Office Fugitive Apprehension Unit, U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, Maverick County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and El Paso District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service and transported to the Eagle Pass Port of Entry, where Maverick County deputies took custody of her.<\/p>\n<p>She was later transported to El Paso and booked into the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office, bond was set at $150,000 for the collision involving death charge. Cuellar is being held without bond on the charge of driving while intoxicated with a child under 15.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/four-families-displaced-nearly-a-week-after-lower-valley-fourplex-fire-in-el-paso?scr=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Four families displaced nearly a week after Lower Valley fourplex fire in El Paso<\/a><\/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 A woman wanted on charges including collision involving death and driving while intoxicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-442089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442089","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=442089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}