{"id":480048,"date":"2026-10-29T04:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480048\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:56:09","slug":"off-duty-border-patrol-agent-charged-with-murder-in-wifes-death-in-laredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480048\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty border patrol agent charged with murder in wife\u2019s death in Laredo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAREDO, Texas \u2014 A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his wife to death and left their children home alone.<\/p>\n<p>Abel Garza, 30, was arrested after officers spotted him driving away with his fatally injured wife in the back seat, according to the Laredo Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Garza had gone door-to-door asking neighbors for help before officers arrived at the scene. His wife later died from multiple stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Police subsequently discovered the couple&#8217;s children unattended, leading to additional charges of child endangerment against Garza.<\/p>\n<p>Garza remains held in jail on a $1 million bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Texas \u2014 A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-480048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480048","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=480048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}