BRIEFS: Agents arrest fugitive

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a man Friday who is accused of attempted murder and has eluded authorities for two years.
Agents arrested Edinburg native Arturo Coronado, 19, after a check of the agency's database identified him as wanted by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said Coronado was the triggerman in a 2006 drive-by shooting near the corner of Highway 107 and Highway 491.
Coronado was 16 years old at the time of the crime. The District Attorney's office has not determined whether he will be prosecuted as a juvenile or an adult, Treviño said.

Authorities find body in Rio Grande
MERCEDES - Authorities will use an autopsy to determine the cause of death of a body found floating in the Rio Grande near Rio Rico Road.
Border Patrol agents spotted the man floating about 11 a.m. Monday on the U.S. side of the river, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. The case was turned over to the Sheriff's Office for investigation.
Treviño said there are no obvious signs of trauma and the case appears to be an accidental drowning.

Woman threatens mother with knife
HARLINGEN - An 18-year-old Harlingen woman was arrested late Sunday after being accused of threatening her mother with a knife.
Tawauna Denae Clay, 18, was arrested by police at 117 E. Polk Ave., after a 52-year-old woman called police at 10:35 p.m. to report she had had an argument with her daughter.
During the incident, Clay grabbed a knife and yelled threats, police said in a statement.
Clay was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon/family violence, police said. During the arrest she refused to cooperate with officers and actively resisted being put inside a patrol car, police said.
She was also charged with resisting arrest/transportation, police said.
Clay was arraigned Monday by Harlingen Municipal Judge Travis Bence. Bond on the aggravated assault was set at $1,000; bond on resisting arrest/transportation was also set at $1,000.

Accident kills three
PHARR - Three men were killed Monday morning when their GMC pickup crashed into a tractor-trailer near the Expressway 83 and U.S. 281 interchange.
The tractor-trailer was driving southbound in the 1100 block of North Cage Boulevard about 2 a.m. when it was struck by the pickup driving east on the Expressway 83 frontage road, police spokesman Lt. Guadalupe Salinas said.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Randolph Williams Jr., 26, of Memphis, Tenn., was uninjured, but three Weslaco men in the pickup were killed.
Gabriel Macias, 41, the driver; Alejandro Cantu, 28; and Luis Alonso Perales, 41, were all pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, Salinas said.