Cedrick Lee Soto was arrested early Thursday morning after he holed up inside a residence in Alamo. Here are the details.

Alejandro Benavides III, 29, was arrested in connection with a robbery that took place at the Liquor 101 store, located at 450 east Frontage Road in Alamo, the city police said. Police, it was indicated, were able to track down and recover several stolen items from the store. In addition, while inspecting the surrounding area, officers located and identified…

Christopher Lee Soto was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2023 murder of his roommate Britney Kay Ireland in Alamo.

Florentino Garcia Lerma, 67, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after being convicted in Hidalgo County on multiple counts of child sexual abuse involving three victims under age 14.

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A 67-year-old Alamo man convicted of sexually abusing three children under the age of 14 will spend 50 years in prison. A Hidalgo County jury found Florentino Garcia Lerma guilty of two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a young child, two counts of aggravated assault of a child and six [...]

On November 2, 2023 the Alamo Police Department received a report of an alleged sexual assault against a 12‑year‑old girl, and later another against a different minor. A jury heard evidence of repeated abuse of three victims under 14 and found Florentino García Lerma, 67, a resident of Alamo, guilty, imposing a concurrent sentence of 50 years in prison.

Florentino Garcia Lerma, a 67‑year‑old man from Alamo, was sentenced this week after a Hidalgo County jury found him guilty of multiple sexual offenses against three children under 14. The convictions stem from allegations reported to Alamo police on Nov. 3, 2023, and resulted in a 50‑year prison term, the length of which residents will note as the key outcome.

The case began when an officer responded to a possible child abuse report after receiving information from a school counselor at IDEA School in Alamo. The counselor said a student had revealed that one of his siblings was allegedly assaulted by his stepfather. During the investigation, authorities determined that the alleged abuse occurred on …

The city of Alamo is constructing a $20 million state-of-the-art public safety facility, boosted by $2.4 million in federal funding, marking its first new public safety building since 1950.

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The city of Alamo was presented with $2.45 million in federal funds on Tuesday for its new public safety building. Alamo city leaders broke ground on the building in February, marking the start of the first new public safety building since 1950. The new $20 million public safety building is one [...]

Military Highway Water Supply Corporation customers in the San Juan and Alamo area are under a boil water notice after a 12-inch water line break on October 19.

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Military Highway Water Supply Corporation public water system issued a boil water notice for customers in the San Juan and Alamo area on Tuesday. The notice comes after a 12" water line break in the San Juan area happened on Monday. Customers on South Stuart Road, Hall Acres Road, Doffin [...]

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District hosted a community outreach event on Wednesday to provide free health screenings. The free event was held at the Junior's Supermarket located in San Juan. At the event, guests were offered health screenings to check blood pressure and glucose levels. The event also provided the [...]

The Maria del Pilar Garza Museum in Alamo seeks help identifying players in a historic photo of the Wildcats semi-pro baseball team for an upcoming exhibit.

The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 4-3 last week to end a board member’s ban from attending meetings in-person that’s lasted over a year. Trustee Cynthia Gutierrez has been prohibited from attending school board meetings in-person since June of 2025, when her fellow board members censured her and banned her…

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The city of Alamo announced Thursday that it has appointed Michael Leo as its new city manager. Leo's appointment comes months after city commissioners voted unanimously to terminate then-city manager Bobby Salinas in April. Alamo police Chief Saul Salinas was appointed acting city manager in the same meeting. In a news [...]

The City of Alamo announced on Thursday that Michael Leo has been appointed as its new city manager, bringing nearly two decades of local‑government leadership. Leo, who holds an MBA from UTRGV and previously led major financial and operational improvements in Pharr and Palmview, is expected to guide Alamo’s continued growth and infrastructure development.

Two teenage boys were confronted, pepper‑sprayed, struck and handcuffed by ICE agents on North Alamo Road by a McDonald’s near the expressway on Friday, Sept. 11, after agents called them “anti‑ICE agitators.” Bystander video shows women in tactical vests and a man shouting in Spanish that the minor was being beaten. Rio Grande Valley residents may note that federal immigration officers were seen assaulting minors.

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found that some immigration detainees at the now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz facility were confined to outdoor cages just slightly larger than phone booths for more than an hour at a time.