A 12-year-old boy remains in critical condition after nearly drowning in neighboring New Braunfels. Officials say on Friday at approximately 3:40pm, the New Braunfels Fire Department and New Braunfels Police Department were called to the 500 block of Peace Avenue at Cypress Bend Park for reports of a possible drowning. New Braunfels Park Rangers were the first to arrive and found that a 12-year-old male from San Antonio had been in the river with family when he had gone under the surface of the water for an unknown amount of time. Park Rangers immediately began lifesaving measures until the first responders took over those efforts when they arrived at the scene. READ MORE

A local man is facing federal drug charges after his arrest last week. Authorities say they have apprehended a man accused of being a significant meth dealer, who was living in Seguin. Over the past several months, officers with the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Bureau say a collaborative federal narcotics investigation revealed a suspect operating a multi-county drug trafficking organization, including operations in Guadalupe and Comal counties. The investigation was made possible thanks to a collaboration with the DEA Office in San Antonio, the sheriff's office, and the Seguin and New Braunfels police departments. On Thursday, at the direction of GCSO Narcotics Investigators, Seguin PD uniformed officers initiated a traffic stop on a truck owned and operated by the suspect identified as James Stokely. READ MORE