Man dies in ATV accident; bodies found in border desert and canal

A man died over the weekend in an SUV crash in the desert north of Fabens in eastern El Paso County, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office reported.

Rodolfo Leos, 44, died at a hospital after he and another man were involved in an off-road crash around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, about a quarter-mile in the desert north of Interstate 10 near the Fabens exit, sheriff’s officials said in a statement.

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Leos was taken to a hospital where he died. The other man, whose name and age were not released, was hospitalized with serious injuries, officials said. Details of the ATV accident were not released.

Deaths in the border desert continue to rise

The number of deaths of suspected illegal immigrants – possibly due to dangerous summer heat in the desert and drowning in the canals – along the border in El Paso and southern New Mexico continues to rise.

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, June 23, U.S. Border Patrol found a body south of Tierra Madre Court in the desert near the U.S.-Mexico border west of Sunland Park, New Mexico, the Sunland Park Fire Department said on X (formerly Twitter).

The Sunland Park Fire Department’s off-road team assisted the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator and the Doña Ana Sheriff’s Office in recovering the body.

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In another incident on Sunday at 10:35 p.m., a Sunland Park fire truck returning from the scene of a fire was flagged down by two migrants asking for help on Highway 9.

The migrants told firefighters they had been in the desert for 12 hours, were dehydrated and had not eaten anything, the SPFD said on X. The migrants were given water and taken into custody by the Border Patrol.

Body pulled from El Paso Lower Valley canal

The El Paso Fire Department Water Rescue Team recovered a body from a canal in the Lower Valley near the Socorro border.

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