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1 month ago | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – Three San Antonio police officers all faced contemplated indefinite suspensions after being accused of criminal wrongdoing in New Braunfels in separate incidents over an 11-month period. None of them, however, have ever faced criminal charges, an analysis by KSAT Investigates revealed. “It was like a punch in the gut.
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1 month ago | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders |Erica Hernandez |Rebecca Salinas
SAN ANTONIO – Brad Simpson, the Olmos Park man charged with murdering his wife last year, made another court appearance on Wednesday morning. The discovery hearing, originally scheduled for March 12, was held in Judge Joel Perez’s 437th District Court. Perez had initially set the 30-day window as evidence from the Texas Rangers was still being collected.
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1 month ago | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders |Erica Hernandez
SAN ANTONIO – The next hearing for Brad Simpson, the Olmos Park man charged with murdering his wife last year, will be in 30 days, a judge said Wednesday. The case against Simpson, 54, was handled before Judge Joel Perez in the 437th District Court. Simpson’s next court appearance was initially scheduled for March 12; however, it was moved to March 19. Perez had offered Simpson’s attorney 60- or 90-day options for the subsequent hearing; however, he chose to stick to the 30-day window.
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1 month ago | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders
MEDINA COUNTY, Texas – A former Medina County sheriff’s deputy said she was terminated last fall after raising concerns about an unlawful search conducted by a fellow deputy. Alexis Mireles (formerly Spengler) was formally relieved of her duties in early September, days after meeting with Sheriff Randy Brown. In a recording of an Aug. 29 meeting provided by Mireles to KSAT Investigates, Brown said he had always supported Mireles but that her performance on the job had made her a danger to herself.
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2 months ago | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders |Erica Hernandez
SAN ANTONIO – The next hearing for Brad Simpson, the Olmos Park man charged with murdering his wife last year, will be in 30 days, a judge said Wednesday. The case against Simpson, 54, was handled before Judge Joel Perez in the 437th District Court. Perez had offered Simpson’s attorney 60- or 90-day options for the subsequent hearing; however, he chose to stick to the 30-day window. Evidence from the Texas Rangers was taking longer than expected to be received by the state.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders
SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County’s two largest law enforcement agencies saw the number of criminal charges filed against their members decline for a third consecutive year in 2024. Overall, arrests within the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and San Antonio Police Department were down a combined 33% this year. Seven BCSO deputies and cadet applicants were taken into custody on criminal charges in 2024. Two of the criminal cases have already made their way through the court system.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Daniela Ibarra |Joshua Saunders |Eddie Latigo |Erica Hernandez
SAN ANTONIO – Questionable actions in the criminal justice arena and two high-profile law enforcement shooting incidents were among the biggest stories covered by KSAT Investigates in 2024. For months, KSAT dug into the working relationship between Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales and an Austin-based criminal justice reform group called the Wren Collective.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders |Eddie Latigo
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio woman who helped her son mix a drink that later sent an elementary school student to the hospital said the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office rushed to charge her with felony injury to a child, even though the child was not injured. In her first public comments since being arrested in March and then cleared of criminal wrongdoing months later, Jennifer Rossi said Sheriff Javier Salazar needlessly shamed her on social media, causing even more torment for her child at school.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ksat.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders |Eddie Latigo
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio woman who helped her son mix a drink that later sent an elementary school student to the hospital said the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office rushed to charge her with felony injury to a child, even though the child was not injured. In her first public comments since being arrested in March and then cleared of criminal wrongdoing months later, Jennifer Rossi said Sheriff Javier Salazar needlessly shamed her on social media, causing even more torment for her child at school.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tspantx.com | Dillon Collier |Joshua Saunders
WIMBERLEY, Texas – A federal civil rights lawsuit filed earlier this year accuses school district and law enforcement personnel in Hays County of conspiring to destroy the teaching career of an instructor at Danforth Junior High School. The suit, filed Sept. 25 in Austin, states that the 20-year teaching career of David Schachter was ruined after he was falsely accused of inappropriately touching two female students in a crowded Wimberley Independent School District classroom in 2022.
