Posted on: January 4, 2023
A former Bexar County constable was sentenced Wednesday to 5 years’ probation on charges she tampered with logs of cash transactions in her office.
A jury convicted Michelle Barrientes, 48, in September of two charges of tampering with evidence, ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 16, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 317 felony indictments.
Fred Butler is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Oct. 2, 2022, Butler intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Laron Agent by cutting and stabbing Agent with ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 9, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 214 felony indictments.
Darrick Oliver Jr. is charged with capital murder of multiple persons. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 11, 2022, Oliver intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Alaina Hend...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 2, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 337 felony indictments.
Isaiah Acosta is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 12, 2022, Acosta intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Alvin McShaw by shooting McShaw with a deadl...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 1, 2022
Today, District Attorney Joe Gonzales announced that a Bexar County Grand Jury has concluded its review of the shooting of unarmed teenager Erik Cantu on October 2, 2022. The Grand Jury returned an indictment against former San Antonio police officer Jame...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 18, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 247 felony indictments.
Sebastian Lee Hernandez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 25, 2021, Hernandez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Christopher Roel Olivarez by cu...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 14, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio man to life in prison for sexually abusing a young girl several times for more than two years.
Mario Morales, 46, was convicted Monday of continuous sexual abuse of a child. Evidence showed that Morales began abu...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 1, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio woman to life in prison Tuesday for causing the death of her daughter.
Jessica Briones, 39, was found guilty Monday of Murder. Evidence showed Briones took her four-year-old daughter Olivia to a police substation...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 31, 2022
A convicted sex offender was sentenced to 260 years in prison Friday for further sex-related crimes.
Jon Gilliland, 57, was charged in a multi-count indictment with possession of child pornography, sexual performance of a child and invasive visual recordin...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 28, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 335 felony indictments.
William Rivera is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on March 13, 2022, Rivera intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Justin Gonzales by shooting at and in the ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 21, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 251 felony indictments.
Robert Joseph Ortiz, Arturo Alan Reyes and Nathan Cruz Sanchez are charged in separate indictments.
- Capital murder: Each indictment alleges that on May 29, 2022, the defendants intenti...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 14, 2022
This morning, a Bexar County Judge sentenced a local man to 20 years in prison for a crash that left a father and his daughter dead.
Cesar Gonzalez, 21, pled guilty of two counts of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Ev...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 14, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 276 felony indictments.
Juan Reyes (SID: 1078082) and John Torres (SID: 1086157) are charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on July 7, 2022, Reyes and Torres intentionally and know...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 12, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio man to effectively life in prison on Tuesday, October 12, 2022, for sexually abusing two young girls. The abuse occurred over a span of more than 10 years.
Aaron Welgraz, 39, was found guilty of multipl...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 12, 2022
Tuesday evening, former officer James Brennand was booked on two warrants for the offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant, a first-degree felony. The charges stem from the Oct. 2, 2022, shooting of Erik Cantu.
The a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 10, 2022
A Bexar County Judge sentenced a man to 35 years in prison for the murder of his mother.
Ivan Castro, 33, was found guilty of the May 24, 2018, murder of his mother, Leticia Barnett. Evidence showed Barnett was stabbed multiple times in the neck and face w...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 7, 2022
While Sunday’s shooting of an unarmed teenager by a then-San Antonio Police officer remains under investigation, the facts and evidence we have received so far led us to reject the charges against Erik Cantu for further investigation. Once SAPD ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 7, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 227 felony indictments.
Frank DeLeon Falcon is charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on July 14, 2022, Falcon intentionally caused the deaths of Linda Webster and Mark Webster by shooting ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 6, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday for killing the owner of an East Side convenience store.
Zion Talavera, 22, pled guilty to shooting Gemunu Gamarachchilage during a robbery at Gamarachchilage’s convenience store at 81...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 4, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 8 years in prison for sending sexually explicit messages to who he thought was a teenage girl he intended to meet but turned out to be an undercover police officer.
Reuben Garcia, 56, was arrested in June 2021 on a charge...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 4, 2022
A Bexar County Jury on Friday sentenced a local man to 18 years in prison for the shooting death of his stepfather.
Evidence showed that on March 5, 2021, Mark Ramos and his wife, who is Jarren Garcia’s mother, had been arguing in their living room. Garcia...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 30, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 246 felony indictments.
Nathaniel Melendez Jr. is charged in three separate indictments:
- Murder: The indictment alleges that on July 5, 2022, Melendez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Evelyn Ga...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 23, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 199 felony indictments.
Marissa Salas and Thomas Torres are charged in separate indictments with assault by intentionally or knowingly causing serious bodily injury to a child by omission. The first count of...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 23, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a local man to 52 years in prison for a charge of continuous family violence.
Steve Herrera, 41, was found guilty on Tuesday. During the trial, evidence showed Herrera and the victim had been in a relationship for years. Recor...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 16, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 292 felony indictments.
Paul Terriquez Jr. is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 10, 2022, Terriquez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Alexis Rios by shooting Rios with a ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 9, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 113 felony indictments.
Vaughan Skirvin is charged with murder. The first count of the indictment alleges that on Nov. 11, 2021, Skirvin intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Joshua Huron by shooti...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 2, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 201 felony indictments.
Gino Bonocini is charged in a multi-count indictment. The first count of the indictment charges Bonocini with burglary of a habitation with intent to commit a felony by force. The ind...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 1, 2022
The following may be attributed to Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales:
“I want to thank the jury for their service over these last two weeks. They stayed focused on this complex case and found the former constable guilty on two...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 31, 2022
A Bexar County Judge sentenced a San Antonio man to 18 years in prison for a 2020 hit and run accident that left a motorcyclist dead.
Christopher Norton, 32, pled guilty in July to a charge of failure to stop and render aid resulting in death. Evidence sho...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 26, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio man to life in prison for the murder of another man.
Richard Vallejo, 28, was found guilty Thursday of the June 2020 shooting death of Andrew Gomez. Evidence showed Gomez went to the home where Vallejo’...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 26, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 242 felony indictments.
Quovante Walls is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on May 31, 2022, Walls intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Mario Miller by shooting Miller with a deadly...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 25, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced to life in prison for firing 25 rounds from a AR-15 rifle at state troopers during a pursuit.
Martin Mercado, 33, was found guilty by a jury in June on two charges of attempted capital murder of a police officer and one char...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 19, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Jurors handed down 264 felony indictments.
Kenith Harden is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on April 27, 2022, Harden intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Darion Dixon by shooting Dixon with a deadl...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 17, 2022
A San Antonio woman was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for the shooting death of a man she met on a social media site.
Aliza Cantu, 26, pled guilty to murder Wednesday in the 186th District Court. Evidence showed on July 14, 2019, Cantu met Marc Ant...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 17, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio man to 70 years in prison for the brutal 2020 murder of a woman.
Rafael Castillo, 27, was convicted Tuesday of murder. Evidence showed Castillo became angry with Nicole Perry inside a home on Nov. 19, 2020. &...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 17, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges he sexually assaulted a young child.
Brandon Garza, 23, pled guilty to a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child Tuesday. Investigators in North Carolina and Texas discovered Garza was...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 17, 2022
A Devine man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 2021 shooting that left two people dead.
Fernando Rojas, 39, pled guilty Tuesday to charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Evidence showed on Aug. 3, 2021, Rojas had been involv...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 12, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 232 felony indictments.
Uriah Huffman and Darryl King are charged in separate indictments with the following:
- Aggravated kidnapping: The indictments allege that on April 23, 2022, Huffman and King intentional...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 8, 2022
A Bexar County Grand Jury has indicted a local mother on charges she caused her child’s death.
D’Lanny Chairez was indicted this morning for injury to a child-intentionally or knowingly causing serious bodily injury to a child. The indi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 5, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio man to 50 years in prison for the August 2020 shooting death of his girlfriend.
Jorge Izquierdo, 31, was found guilty of murder Thursday. Evidence showed Izquierdo returned to the home with Cora Nickel on Aug. 20...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 5, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 46 years in prison for inappropriately touching a young girl.
A jury found Arnoldo Diaz, 53, guilty of two counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure on Thursday. Durin...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 5, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 201 felony indictments.
Raul Gomez is charged with intoxication manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 12, 2022, Gomez operated a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated, and did by reas...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 1, 2022
A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for uploading sexually explicit photos of children via his email account.
Anthony Speller, 49, was charged with 60 counts of possession of child pornography, a third degree felony. A tip from the Na...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 29, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 284 felony indictments.
Elijah Gonzales is charged in separate indictments:
- Assault of pregnant person: This indictment alleges that on Aug. 24, 2021, Gonzales intentionally, knowingly and reckless caused bod...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 28, 2022
A local woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a drunk driving crash that killed a man in front of his family.
Blanca Torres, 42, was found guilty of intoxication manslaughter in March for the Oct. 16, 2018, crash. Evidence showed Mauricio Rodriguez...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 22, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 250 felony indictments.
Paul Kinsey and Danielle Kinsey are charged in separate indictments with endangering a child. The four-count indictments allege that on May 23, 2022, Paul and Danielle Kinsey reckless...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 21, 2022
A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexually abusing a child.
On Wednesday, a jury in the 399th District Court found David Oscar Saldivar, 37, guilty of the charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child. Evidence showed that Saldi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 15, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 253 felony indictments.
Juan Carlos Diaz-De La Cruz is charged in a multiple-count indictment with the following:
- Trafficking a child to engage in sexual conduct: This count alleges that on July 6, 2021, Diaz...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 8, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 73 felony indictments.
Jorge Rivera is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Aug. 21, 2016, Rivera intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Javier Soto by striking Soto with a deadly wea...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 1, 2022
A San Antonio man is headed to prison for a violent attempted rape of a woman.
Gary Franz DeVaughn, 59, was found guilty following a jury trial in April for charges of attempted aggravated sexual assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. &nb...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 1, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 285 felony indictments.
Mathew Wiessing is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on March 10, 2022, Wiessing intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Michael Echaniz by shooting Echaniz wit...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 17, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 197 felony indictments.
Christopher Del Toro is charged with intoxication manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on March 27, 2022, Del Toro operated a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated, a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 16, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a local man to two 40-year prison sentences for sexually assaulting a young girl.
Juan De Los Santos-Salas, 37, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony. During the trial, p...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 16, 2022
A murder defendant who cut off his GPS monitor while on bond awaiting trial was arrested late Tuesday.
Amir Powell posted $150,000 bond in September 2020. Court-ordered conditions of his release required Powell to wear a GPS monitor while under partial hou...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 3, 2022
Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales is encouraging law enforcement officers to file criminal cases against people who have “switches” to make their legal firearms into fully automatic weapons.
In Bexar County, officers...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 3, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 207 felony indictments.
Michael Dines is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on March 13, 2022, Dines intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Kerstin Marie Taylor by shooting Taylor with...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 27, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Jurors handed down 279 felony indictments.
Enrique Lara is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 28, 2022, Lara intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Maria Virginia Hernandez by shooting Hernandez ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 25, 2022
The “Med Center Rapist” pled guilty this morning to a Jan. 2017 attack of a local woman inside her apartment.
Anton Harris, 23, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of “Alice Smith.” Evidence showed Harris a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 24, 2022
Daniel Calvillo, 29, a citizen of Piedras Negras, pled guilty to the Dec. 9, 2020, murder of Giovanna Barrera. Evidence showed Calvillo walked up to Barrera while she was sitting in a car and demanded her cell phone before he shot her.
In exchang...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 20, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 306 felony indictments.
Aaron Gutierrez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 16, 2021, Gutierrez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Maria Gonzales by shooting Gonzales wit...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 19, 2022
This afternoon, a Bexar County Grand Jury handed down multiple indictments against alleged gang members who conspired to exchange money and drugs in the Bexar County Jail with the assistance of a former detention officer.
The separate indictments allege th...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 19, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday for driving under the influence of drugs and killing a 16-year-old girl who tried to get out of the moving car.
Steven Xzavier Medina, 20, pled guilty to a charge of intoxication manslaughter in...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 19, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a San Antonio man to 30 years in prison for a fatal bar shooting.
David Hinojosa, 32, was found guilty on a murder charge earlier this week. Joseph Torres, 37, and David Hinojosa were both regulars at the Sugartime Lounge in t...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 13, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 325 felony indictments.
Michael Burger is charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 20, 2022, Burger intentionally and knowingly caused the death of William Burger by shooting William ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 6, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 110 felony indictments.
Auguston Medelez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Oct. 11, 2021, Medelez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Francisco Mendoza by shooting Mendoza wi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 6, 2022
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a woman to 20 years in prison for paying an undercover officer to kill a woman.
Angelica Navarro-DePaz, 44, was found guilty this week of solicitation of capital murder for remuneration. Evidence included an August 2017 video ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 4, 2022
A San Antonio man convicted of sexually abusing a child for six months was sentenced to 55 years in prison.
Efren Moreno, 33, was charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child and Indecency with a Child by Contact. The crimes happened between M...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 3, 2022
A former Bexar County detention deputy was indicted today on charges he altered a government document to cover up an attack on an inmate.
A four-count indictment alleges that on Feb. 7, 2021, Victor Collins knowing that an investigation was pending, to-wit...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 3, 2022
A San Antonio man who pled not guilty to a brutal attack on his former girlfriend was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday. Prosecutors were able to obtain the conviction and sentence in his case without the assistance of the victim.
Juan Antonio Rivera...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 29, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 329 felony indictments.
Felix Hernandez and Stacy Mae Lynn Page are charged in separate multi-count indictments. The first count of the indictment is for murder. It alleges that on Jan. 22, 2022, Hernandez a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 25, 2022
This morning, a Bexar County Judge sentenced a woman to prison for her role in the murder of her boyfriend.
Enederia Flowers, 26, pled guilty to a murder charge in January 2020. Flowers was accused of going to Isaiah Roper’s family’s ho...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 22, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 189 felony indictments.
Joseph Harris is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 28, 20221, Harris intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Isaiah Orozco by shooting Orozco with a dea...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 21, 2022
After more than two days of testimony, a San Antonio man on trial for capital murder changed his plea from not guilty to guilty of murder.
Johnathan Johnson, 28, is accused of the March 4, 2019, shooting deaths of Andre Rangel, 19, and Katrina Casarez, 18....
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 14, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 190 felony indictments.
Debra Ann Guerra is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Jan. 15, 2022, Guerra intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Aldo Rafael Urbie by shooting Urbie with ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 13, 2022
A convicted felon who was released from prison and returned to San Antonio to commit a string of armed robberies was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
John Casarez, also known as Pete Rojas, was found guilty of aggravated robbery. Evidence showed Casa...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 11, 2022
Investigators with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office assigned to the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force helped locate and return a man charged with murder to Bexar County.
Francisco Javier Velasquez, 37, was free on a $100,000 ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 7, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 220 felony indictments.
Ol Wallace is charged in multiple indictments stemming from the same incident.
- Murder: The indictment alleges that on Jan. 17, 2022, Wallace intentionally and knowingly caused the deat...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 1, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 248 felony indictments.
Bryan Gonzalez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 6, 2021, Gonzalez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Santiago Sanchez by shooting Sanchez with ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 28, 2022
A Bexar County jury found a man guilty of a cold case killing from 1987.
Larry Moore was convicted of capital murder Friday in the sexual assault and asphyxiation of Dianna Lowery on January 29, 1987. Moore was Lowery’s neighbor and landlord. DNA evidence ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 25, 2022
The following is attributed to Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales:
On March 25, 2022, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office dismissed the case against Deputy Brandin Moran for the shooting of Mr. Jesus Garcia. This case was heartbr...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 25, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 257 felony indictments.
Mason Lubitz is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 25, 2021, Lubitz intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Trevor James Beeman by shooting Beeman with a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 23, 2022
A Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a former San Antonio police officer Tuesday on felony charges.
Michael Brewer is charged with unlawful restraint exposing a complainant to a risk of serious bodily injury. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 26, 2019, Bre...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 22, 2022
A San Antonio woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for driving drunk and killing her nephew.
Rebecca DeLeon, 39, pled guilty to a charge of intoxication manslaughter Tuesday. Evidence showed that on Sep. 27, 2020, DeLeon was driving on the 5400 blk. o...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 22, 2022
A San Antonio man facing multiple felony charges pled guilty to the crimes in exchange for prison time.
Adrian Cardenas, 23, pled guilty to attempted capital murder of a police officer, aggravated assault and robbery. Evidence showed that on Oct. 5, 2020, ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 22, 2022
A Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a Bexar County deputy Monday for manslaughter.
The indictment alleges that on March 9, 2020, Brandin Moran recklessly caused the death of Jesus Garcia by discharging a deadly weapon (firearm) at and in the direction of Ga...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 18, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 305 felony indictments.
Gary Clark, Deymont Franklin and Jamari Nickerson are charged in separate indictments with murder. Each indictment alleges that on Sep. 30, 2021, Clark, Franklin and Nickerson committ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 11, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 197 felony indictments.
Krystal Rodriguez (SID: 1156859) is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 17, 2021, Rodriguez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Jared Rodriguez by sho...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 28, 2022
A San Antonio man was found guilty and sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder and other felony charges.
Greg Delgado, 36, is charged with the Feb. 21, 2020, shooting death of Luis Guerrero. Guerrero was driving a truck when he was shot and crashed into...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 25, 2022
A former San Antonio police officer has been indicted on a charge stemming from an officer-involved shooting.
Oscar Cruz was indicted for deadly conduct. The indictment alleges that on March 9, 2020, Cruz knowingly discharged a firearm at and in the direct...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 24, 2022
The following is a statement from D.A. Gonzales:
Parents will not be prosecuted for protecting their children.
Grandparents will not be prosecuted for loving their grand-children.
Doctors will not be prosecuted for providing medical care for their patients.
T...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 22, 2022
This morning, Bexar County Commissioners unanimously approved a request from Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales for additional investigators for the Family Justice Center.
The priority of investigators at the FJC is to serve high-risk respondents ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 18, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 271 felony indictments.
Rene Devora is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 2, 2021, Devora intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Miranda Kennedy by cutting and stabbing Kennedy...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 21, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 178 felony indictments.
Darren Doze is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on May 2, 2021, Doze intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Ronald Doze by shooting Ronald Doze with a deadly ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 14, 2022
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 343 felony indictments.
Dwight Sanchez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 13, 2018, Sanchez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Zachariah Bostic by shooting Bostic with a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 11, 2022
A former San Antonio Park Police officer is charged with tampering with a governmental record.
A Bexar County Grand Jury returned the indictment on Jan. 6, 2022. It alleges that on Jan. 8, 2020, David Rene Garcia (SID: 822053) did, with intent to defraud a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 10, 2022
A jury sentenced a San Antonio man to 33 years in prison for the shooting death of his cousin.
On Friday, the jury found Edison Carraman, 23, guilty of murder. During the trial, evidence showed that Carraman had an argument with family members and that he ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 7, 2022
This week, two new Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 61 felony indictments.
Alejandro Montoya Rodriguez is charged in two separate indictments with intoxication manslaughter. The indictments allege that on Dec. 24, 2020, Montoya Rodriguez ope...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 22, 2021
This week, a Bexar County Grand Jury handed down 144 felony indictments, bringing an end of service for the two Grand Jury panels from the 227th and 437th District Courts. During their six-week terms, the two panels issued 1,789 true bills of indictment.
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 20, 2021
A San Antonio man convicted last month of murdering his girlfriend’s baby was sentenced to life in prison this morning.
Last month, a jury convicted Miguel Gutierrez, 27, for the Nov. 3, 2017, death of Xzavier Cortez. Evidence showed Gutierrez ad...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 20, 2021
This afternoon, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Civil Rights Division presented the Aug. 25, 2020, fatal shooting of Damian Daniels by Bexar County Sheriff’s Office Deputy John Rodriguez to a Grand Jury. After their review, a no b...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 17, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 368 felony indictments.
Jonathan Villegas is charged with manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on March 29, 2021, Villegas recklessly caused the death of Luis Castelar by discharging a deadly weapon (fi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 17, 2021
A San Antonio man who hit and killed a 20-year-old college student while trying to avoid returning to jail was sentenced to 60 years in prison for murder.
Joseph Woolard, 37, pled guilty to murder in the 144th District Court this morning. Woolard had warra...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 17, 2021
On Wednesday, a Bexar County Grand Jury returned indictments against two former San Antonio Police officers for charges of aggravated assault by a public servant.
The separate indictments allege that on Jan. 16, 2020, Carlos Castro and Thomas Villarreal in...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 10, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 269 felony indictments.
Jorge Joseph Alvarado is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 11, 2019, Alvarado intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Melissa Alvarado by shooting Melis...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 3, 2021
A Bexar County Jury sentenced a local man to 55 years in prison for the robbery of a Westside restaurant Thursday.
Raul Medel, 31, was found guilty of the March 19, 2019, robbery of a Subway located at 4638 W. Commerce. The victim said around 2:30 in the a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 3, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 290 felony indictments.
Julius Inteus Burge is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 14, 2021, Burge intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Benjamin Michael Holl by shooting Holl ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 29, 2021
This morning, a San Antonio man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the 2019 shooting death of his wife.
Brian Jorge Ramos, 41, pled no contest to a murder charge in the 290th District Court. A judge found him guilty of the April 1, 2019, killing of hi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 23, 2021
A Bexar County woman has been indicted on multiple charges of child abuse.
Lakendra Monique Williams is charged with assault-intentionally/knowingly causing serious bodily injury to a child. The 18 count indictment alleges that on Feb. 18, 2021, Williams i...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 19, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 265 felony indictments.
Reyes Huerta Gallegos is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on July 7, 2019, Gallegos intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Cecilia Huerta Gallegos by manner a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 12, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 202 felony indictments.
Fernando Rojas is charged in two separate indictments.
- Capital murder of multiple persons: This indictment alleges that on Aug. 3, 2021, Rojas intentionally and knowingly caus...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 29, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 228 felony indictments.
Daniel Barragan and Eduardo Delarosa are charged in separate indictments with multiple felony offenses.
- Capital murder of multiple persons: The indictments allege that on Aug. 15, 2021...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 22, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 259 felony indictments.
Jose Damian Canales is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on July 16, 2021, Canales intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Steven Lawrence Byars by shooting Bya...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 15, 2021
On Friday, a woman charged for her role in the cover-up of the death of an 8-month-old boy was sentenced to prison.
Angie Torres, 48, pled guilty in the 227th District Court to a charge of tampering with evidence with intent to impair, a third degree felon...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 15, 2021
This week, Bexar county Grand Juries handed down 196 felony indictments.
Larry Vaquera is the first person in Bexar County charged with solicitation of a prostitute, a law that took effect Sep. 1, 2021. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 16, 2021, Vaquera...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 8, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 255 felony indictments.
Leopedo Mora is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 13, 2021, Mora intentionally and knowing caused the death of Kenneth Salazar by shooting him with a deadly wea...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 1, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 203 felony indictments.
Anthony Nash is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Jan. 7, 2020, Nash intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Anthony Sanks by shooting Sanks with a deadly we...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 30, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday after he pled guilty to having child abuse materials and images of bestiality on his cell phone.
Isidro Ibarra Moreno, 35, entered a pre-indictment plea of guilty to possession of child porno...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 29, 2021
A San Antonio man convicted of writing tens of thousands of dollars’ in hot checks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
John Cardenas, 36, was found guilty by a jury in the 290th District Court in July on a charge of theft of service. Eviden...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 28, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to six years in prison after he pled guilty Monday to two indictments for possession of child pornography in the 226th Judicial District Court, Judge Velia Meza presiding.
Jose Villarreal, 34, was arrested in November 2020 a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 24, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 234 felony indictments.
Kiet Tuan Nguyen (SID: 1150197) is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on July 5, 2021, Nguyen intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Ryan Vo by shooting Vo with...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 17, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 225 felony indictments.
Devonte Riondo Campbell is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 20, 2021, Campbell intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Parnell Keith Curtis by shooting...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 10, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 182 felony indictments.
Miguel Garcia Gonzalez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 13, 2021, Gonzalez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Frank Hammonds by striking Hammon...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 2, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Dillon Leigh Meckel is charged with capital murder of multiple persons. The indictment alleges that on June 19, 2021, Meckel intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Laura P...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 31, 2021
On Monday, a Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a former deputy with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office for multiple charges stemming from a traffic stop.
The first count of the indictment charges Joel Chavez with official oppression. It alleges tha...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 27, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 242 felony indictments.
Ivan Joseph Duran is charged with manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 15, 2020, Duran recklessly caused the death of Dominique Orta by driving and operating a motor vehi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 26, 2021
In response to today's ruling from the Texas Supreme Court on the limited mask mandate in Bexar County, District Attorney Joe Gonzales issued the following statement:
While I am personally disappointed in the order handed down today by t...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 24, 2021
On Monday, a Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a former Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detention officer for an attack on an inmate.
Jaime Soto is charged in a two count indictment with official oppression. The first count of the indictment alleges...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 20, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 267 felony indictments.
Kristopher Anthony Espinoza is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 21, 2020, Espinoza intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Cecilio Soria by shooting So...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 16, 2021
This afternoon, Bexar County Judge Antonia Arteaga, 57th Civil District Court ruled in favor of a request for a temporary injunction that allows Bexar County and the City of San Antonio, as well as local schools, to require masks in an effort to prevent t...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 13, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 241 felony indictments.
Amari Daijanea Gardner is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on May 14, 2021, Gardner intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Anthony Oneal Easterling by shootin...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 10, 2021
This afternoon, Bexar County Judge Antonia Arteaga granted a joint application for a temporary restraining order filed by the City of San Antonio and Bexar County which restrains the enforcement of certain provisions of Governor Abbott’s executive order G...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 6, 2021
On Friday, a Bexar County jury sentenced a convicted cop killer to death by lethal injection.
Otis McKane, 35, was convicted last month of a charge of capital murder of a police officer. A jury in the 379th District Court found McKane guilty of the Nov. 20...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 6, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 246 felony indictments.
Xavier Carlos Arteaga is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on May 2, 2021, Arteaga intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Rene Galan by shooting Galan with a d...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 4, 2021
Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales released the following statement:
"While we had hoped the return of jurors on June 1, 2021, would be a beginning of more normal court operations, we understand Judge Ron Rangel’s order to suspend j...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 30, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 219 felony indictments.
Jonathan Garrett (SID: 1147282) is charged in multiple indictments. One charges Garrett with super aggravated sexual assault of a child. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 7, 2021, G...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 26, 2021
This morning, a Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a former San Antonio police officer for a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The first count of the indictment alleges that on Sep. 27, 2020, John Edward Schiller intentionally, knowingly and...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 23, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 218 felony indictments.
Robert D. Martin is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on April 25, 2021, Martin intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Crystal Ferguson by strangling Ferguson ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 21, 2021
Two San Antonio men who were convicted of drug charges have been exonerated.
John Gabriel Cape and Louie Garcia were arrested in Aug. 2017 after a confidential informant told investigators that they would find methamphetamine at a San Antonio home. The men...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 16, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 237 felony indictments.
Noah McGary is charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on March 5, 2021, McGary intentionally caused the death of Hector Chavera by shooting Chavera with a deadly wea...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 15, 2021
This morning, a 42-year-old San Antonio man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
John Christopher Delgado pled guilty in the 227th District Court. He was arrested March 20, 2020, after a Cyber tip from G...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 9, 2021
This week, two newly-impaneled Bexar County Grand Juries began their terms by handing down 130 felony indictments.
Clyde Poindexter (SID: 666722) is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 9, 2020, Poindexter, with intent to cause serious ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 9, 2021
A San Antonio man charged with the beating death of a 93-year-old man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Damian Jimenez, 24, pled guilty to murder in the 437th District Court this morning. Jimenez was accused of confronting Lupe Martinez outside a c...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: July 2, 2021
This week, two Bexar County Grand Juries completed their terms by handing down 242 felony indictments.
Selena Marie Hernandez and Daniel Reynaldo Telles are charged in separate indictments with assault – intentionally/knowingly causing serious bo...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 30, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend on her 19th birthday.
Joshua Garcia pled guilty to the Oct. 9, 2018, murder of Erin Castro. The couple went out to celebrate Castro’s 19th birthday. An argument ensued a...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 29, 2021
A former juvenile detention officer is facing trial on charges he injured a child who was in custody.
Ramon Montanya was indicted by a Bexar County Grand Jury on June 23, 2021, for a charge of assault causing serious bodily injury to a child. The indictmen...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 29, 2021
This morning, a man accused of causing the death of an 8-month-old San Antonio infant was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Christopher Davila, 37, was found guilty of injury to a child causing the death of King Jay Davila. Christopher Davila initially repo...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 28, 2021
A Kerrville man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for a murder last summer in a San Antonio parking lot.
Daniel Rodriguez, 33, was shot June 1, 2020, during a dispute outside a motel in the 2100 blk. SW Loop 410. Rodriguez died from his injuries. S...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 25, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 29 years in prison after he pled guilty to murder and aggravated robbery.
Joe Albert Gover, 27, pled guilty to his role in the June 26, 2011, death of Benjamin Briones. Briones was hit, kicked and struck with a bat during...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 25, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 269 felony indictments.
Kevin Perez is charged with murder. The first count of the indictment alleges that on Dec. 29, 2020, Perez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Arnulfo Cortez by shooting C...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 23, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to five years in prison after he pled guilty today to promotion of child pornography in the 437th Judicial District Court, Judge Melisa Skinner presiding.
Jason Chavez, 29, was arrested in November 2020 after a tip from the ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 23, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
John Anthony Clede, 46, was accused of sexually abusing two young girls from June 2015 through November 2018. During the course of a fou...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 18, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 233 felony indictments.
Maranda Merrie Garcia and Krystle McCord are charged with murder. The separate indictments allege that on April 5, 2021, Garcia and McCord intentionally and knowingly caused the death...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 14, 2021
Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales released the following statement on Monday, June 14, 2021:
The shooting death of Mr. Daniels involving Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputies is currently under review by the Civil Rights Division of the Bexar Co...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 11, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 233 felony indictments.
Francisco Saul Miranda is charged in one indictment with murder. That indictment alleges that on March 11, 2021, Miranda intentionally and knowingly caused the death of David Garcia b...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 11, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to four years in prison after he pled guilty today to possession of child pornography.
Nicolas Dovalina, 26, was arrested in June 2020 after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported Dovalina...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: June 4, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 227 felony indictments.
Mario Preciado is charged with intoxication manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 7, 2020, Preciado operated a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated, and did b...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 28, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 203 felony indictments.
Jarren Diego Garcia is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on March 5, 2021, Garcia intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Mark Ramos by shooting Ramos with a de...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 21, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 219 felony indictments.
Armando Eric Narvaez and Zion Michael Talavera are charged with capital murder – other felony. The indictments allege that on July 30, 2019, Narvaez and Talavera intentionally caused ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 24, 2021
As Bexar County Courts prepare to resume jury trials for the first time in more than 14 months, District Attorney Joe Gonzales has published a message to local crime victims: please be patient.
COVID-19 protocols brought jury trials to a halt in March 2020...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 14, 2021
Two men, including a former corrections officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division, were sentenced to prison after each pleaded guilty to possession of child abuse materials.
This morning, David Love, 41, received a five y...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: May 5, 2021
On Tuesday, a Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a former San Antonio police officer for misusing public information.
The two-count indictment alleges that on May 2, 2019, Ronaldo Segovia, 40, with intent to harm or defraud another, namely, Victor Lara, disc...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 30, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 260 felony indictments.
“As these 24 citizens conclude their service over these last two months, I want to acknowledge the vital role they play in the criminal justice system. T...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 27, 2021
This morning, a Bexar County Grand Jury indicted a Bexar County Detention Officer for an alleged attack on an inmate.
Eduardo Sanchez is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant causing serious bodily injury and official oppression. Both charges...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 22, 2021
This week Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Richard Villanueva and D’Quintin Williams are charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Oct. 9, 2019, Villanueva and Williams intentionally and knowingly ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 21, 2021
A San Antonio man was sentenced to prison Monday for soliciting a child through social media.
Andrew Cummings, 20, was found guilty Monday of a charge of online solicitation of a minor under 14 years old. Evidence in the case showed Cummings met the child ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 20, 2021
Following the guilty verdicts in the cases against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales issued the following statement:
"George Floyd’s final 9 minutes and 29 seconds in handcuffs, on the ground,...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 20, 2021
This morning, a Bexar County Grand Jury indicted the mother of a missing toddler on a charge of tampering with evidence.
The charge reflects that on March 15, 2021, D’Lanny Reaneille Chairez, knowing that an investigation was in progress did inte...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 16, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 250 felony indictments.
Joan Francisco Paulino is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 3, 2021, Paulino intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Michael Garcia-Sanchez by...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 9, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 165 felony indictments.
D’Morea Keys is charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on Aug. 15, 2020, Keys intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Donita Henry-Philli...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: April 1, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 240 felony indictments.
Natalie Saldana is charged with intoxication manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 22, 2019, Saldana operated a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 30, 2021
This morning, a Bexar County Judge sentenced a former Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputy to 3 years in prison for exposing himself to a child.
Andres Ibarra, 27, pleaded no contest to indecency with a child by exposure. Ibarra left the BCSO pri...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 26, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 250 felony indictments.
Jesus Monsivais Jr. is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 29, 2020, Monsivais intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Oscar Rene Castillo Jr. b...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 19, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 250 felony indictments.
James Miller and Jaylen Dears are charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on Dec. 17, 2020, Miller and Dears intentionally caused the deaths of Bobby Carter an...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 18, 2021
The weekend vandalism of San Antonio’s Noodle Tree restaurant appears to be a deplorable sign that Bexar County’s Asian American community is the latest target of hate-motivated crime.
“I have seen the horrific acts of violenc...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 17, 2021
A former San Antonio teacher has been sentenced to prison after admitting he had sex with a student.
Jose Eduardo Hernandez, 45, pled guilty to sexual assault of a child Tuesday in the 144th District Court. Evidence showed in 2019 Hernandez, a Lanier High ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 15, 2021
This morning, a Bexar County Grand Jury handed down three indictments connected to a single alleged incident inside the Bexar County Jail.
The separate indictments allege that on May 3, 2018, Maricela Leija and Thomas Lucero intentionally and knowingly pro...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 12, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 280 felony indictments.
Priscilla Caballero is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Jan. 5, 2021, Caballero intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Yvette Salinas by shooting Sa...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 5, 2021
A Bexar County Grand Jury has indicted a local man for murder.
The indictment alleges that on Nov. 21, 2020, Richard Luna also known as Dask, intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Isaac Cantu by cutting and stabbing Cantu with a deadly weapon (kn...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 26, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 270 felony indictments.
“The terms of the Grand Juries impaneled by the 144th District Court and the 226th District Court concluded this week. These two Grand Juries have handed down 1,815 f...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 22, 2021
A Bexar County man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a 10-year old girl.
Justin Anthony Gonzales, 29, was charged by indictment with aggravated sexual assault of a child. The offenses were alleged to have occurred in January and...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 19, 2021
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office is assessing damage caused by a burst pipe to a portion of its offices in the Cadena-Reeves Justice Center. While Bexar County facilities were closed all week due to inclement weather, the water damage...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 12, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Jurors handed down nearly 300 felony indictments.
Lavelle Wilson Ruvader is charged with theft of $300,000 or more. The two count indictment alleges that between Jan. 6, 2014, and Sep. 12, 2019, Ruvader, also known as Lavelle ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: February 5, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Jurors handed down nearly 300 felony indictments.
Gregory Morrison is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 3, 2020, Morrison intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Ann Black by shooting her with a ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 29, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 320 felony indictments.
Christopher Thomas Norton is charged with failure to stop and render aid causing death. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 9, 2020, Norton intentionally and knowingly drove...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 25, 2021
This morning, a Bexar County Grand Jury handed down multiple indictments against a San Antonio police officer.
Erik Rodriguez is charged in two-count indictment with bribery and misuse of public information The first count of the indictment alleges that on...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 22, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Mason Alvarado is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Aug. 16, 2020, Alvarado intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Cyrus Holmes by shooting Holmes...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 15, 2021
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 300 felony indictments.
David James Estrada Jr. is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 5, 2020, Estrada did then and there commit or attempt to commit the felony offense of agg...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 13, 2021
This afternoon, Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales and two of his senior staff met with the family of Marquise Jones to discuss the additional review of the officer-involved shooting that resulted in Mr. Jones’ death. The family was inf...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 12, 2021
This morning, Bexar County Commissioners approved a request from District Attorney Joe Gonzales for additional resources to help with a growing number of family violence cases.
The $350,624 request includes two misdemeanor prosecutors, a felony prosecutor ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: January 8, 2021
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has added two more dashboards with data of incoming cases. One details cases filed at magistration after an individual is arrested; the other details the current caseload of the Criminal Trial Division...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 18, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 360 felony indictments.
Trevon Chaney, Roger Troy Koontz Jr. and Aviar Maleek Smith are charged with capital murder – other felony. Three separate indictments allege that on Sep. 22, 2020, Chaney, Koo...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 11, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 260 felony indictments.
Maria Del Rosario Mendez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on March 27, 2020, Mendez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Jose Salvador Tellez-T...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 11, 2020
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has added a Cite and Release dashboard to its website. The interactive graphic includes data from the date law enforcement began participating on July 1, 2019, through July 30, 2020. To see the dashboa...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 4, 2020
On Nov. 25, 2020, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an opinion in the case of a Bexar County man convicted of capital murder, reforming his death sentence to life in prison due to intellectual disability.
Geronimo Gutierrez, who is now 43 years ol...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 4, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 340 felony indictments.
Mariana Campos-Jimenez is charged with intoxication manslaughter. The first count of the indictment alleges that on May 23, 2020, Campos-Jimenez operated a motor vehicle in a p...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 20, 2020
For more than a decade, misdemeanor family violence cases have been assigned to County Court 7 and County Court 13. When the COVID-19 protocols were put into place, all courts ceased having jury trials and most moved to virtual hearings – a much slower pr...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 13, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Kevin Ray Clark is charged with manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on May 3, 2020, Clark did recklessly cause the death of Miranda Martinez by discharging a deadly we...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 19, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Fabian Rene Arredondo is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and causing serious bodily injury. The indictment alleges that on Sep. 16, 2020, Arredondo inte...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 9, 2020
A San Antonio man who pled guilty to intoxication manslaughter earlier this year has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a woman who was delivering food.
On Dec. 2, 2018, Jennifer White, 33, was stopped at a light at the intersection of Perrin...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 6, 2020
This week, two newly-impaneled Grand Juries began their service to Bexar County by handing down more than 100 felony indictments in just two days.
Jorge Izquierdo is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Aug. 20, 2020, Izquierdo intentionally...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 5, 2020
This afternoon, a convicted sex offender was sentenced to 25 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault. Due to COVID-19 procedures, the hearing was conducted via Zoom.
Clovis Joseph Schexnayder, 47, was accused of the Sep. 2016 attack on a 64-year-old ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 30, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 230 felony indictments.
Dorian Murphree and Kyle Phillips are charged with capital murder. The indictments allege that on July 14, 2020, Murphree and Phillips intentionally caused the death of Jasm...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 29, 2020
In a first for Bexar County, District Attorney Joe Gonzales has made family violence data available online. The two dashboards present the data in different ways. One details incoming family violence and sex assault cases comparing September 2019 to Septe...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 23, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 270 felony indictments.
Rogelio Sanchez is charged with capital murder. The indictment alleges that on July 5, 2020, Sanchez intentionally caused the death of Christina De La Cruz by shooting her with...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 20, 2020
This morning, Bexar County Commissioners approved a request from Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales for funding to establish a Civil Rights Division. The division will include two prosecutors, an investigator and an advocate at a cost of $385,984...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 16, 2020
Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales will announce the creation of a Civil Rights Division to handle officer-involved shootings. It will consist of two prosecutors, an investigator and a victim’s advocate. The team will respond to the sce...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 15, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 300 felony indictments.
Alejandro Rodriguez Garcia is charged with intoxication manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 22, 2020, Garcia operated a motor vehicle in a public place while i...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 9, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 250 felony indictments.
Jose Rodriguez Chucuan is charged in a multi-count indictment. The indictment alleges that on May 3, 2020, Chucuan committed one count of aggravated kidnapping and four counts of sexu...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 2, 2020
A Bexar County Grand Jury has indicted Mario Pena with felony terroristic threat. The indictment alleges that on July 31, 2020, Pena threatened to commit an offense involving violence to property of the United States of America, to-wit: posting on social ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 25, 2020
During the week of Sep. 21-25, 2020, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 265 felony indictments.
Isaiah Andres Enriquez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on May 9, 2020, Enriquez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Michael A...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 17, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Gilberto Perez is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 29, 2020, Perez intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Moses Johnson by shooting Johnson ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 16, 2020
Bexar County District Attorney Joe D. Gonzales released the following statement:
“On September 10, 2020, Jourdyn Parks, a local community activist, was arrested and charged with child abandonment. The case was originally reviewed and accepted at ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 11, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 200 felony indictments.
Greg Delgado is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 21, 2020, Delgado intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Luis Guerrero by shooting Guerrero wi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 8, 2020
Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales issued the following statement:
This afternoon, I met with the family of Marquise Jones and some of their representatives. The family’s civil attorney recently provided additional information from the F...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 4, 2020
During the week of August 31 through September 4, 2020, two newly-impaneled Bexar County Grand Juries began their service by handing down more than 100 felony indictments.
Jacob Riley Embrey is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 1, 20...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 1, 2020
This morning, the Bexar County District Attorney and other staff members met with the family of Damian Daniels, with their attorneys.
During the meeting, District Attorney Joe Gonzales explained that the BCSO is still investigating the shooting and has not...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 1, 2020
This afternoon, Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales dismissed two charges of assault on a peace officer against Mathais Ometu in the interest of justice and at the request of the complainants. Both complainants are San Antonio Police Officers.
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 28, 2020
On Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales issued the following statement on the arrest of Mathais Ometu:
Mr. Ometu was arrested and charged on Aug. 25, 2020, by the San Antonio Police Department with two different coun...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 21, 2020
During the week of Aug. 17-21, 2020, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 200 felony indictments.
Thomas Leonard Roberts is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on June 3, 2020, Roberts intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Ap...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 14, 2020
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 200 felony indictments.
Michael Gonzales is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on May 24, 2020, Gonzales intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Miranda Milowski by cutting an...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 5, 2020
During the week of July 27-31, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 230 felony indictments.
Zion Limon is charged with capital murder of multiple persons. The indictment alleges that on May 2, 2020, Limon intentionally and knowingly caused the deat...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 5, 2020
During the week of July 6-10, 2020, two newly impaneled Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 150 felony indictments.
Angel Jonathan Koenigstein and Nathaniel Velasquez are co-defendants in three separate indictments. One indictment charges the p...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 5, 2020
From June 29 through July 2, 2020, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down more than 260 felony indictments.
Trey Larenz Duncan is charged with murder. The indictment alleges that on April 21, 2020, Duncan intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Regi...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 25, 2019
Bexar County Grand Juries indicted more than 360 felony cases this week. Three of
those indictments related to crimes involving a death.
Agrand jury indicted Juan Fragosa for murder. The indictment alleges that on
August 31, 2019, Fragosa intentionally...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: November 15, 2019
This week, Bexar County Grand Juries handed down nearly 270
felony indictments for a variety of offenses – including drug-related offenses,property crimes and violent crimes. Four of those indictments were for crimes involving deaths.
Taymor M...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 28, 2019
A Bexar County jury found Ricky Cantu guilty of murder. Cantu,
58, was accused of driving while intoxicated on February 24, 2018, when he struckand killed a motorcyclist, Rudy Borrego. Cantu
was charged with murder instead of intox...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 11, 2019
A man convicted of the brutal murder of a
San Antonio college student was sentenced this morning to life in prison.
Ernesto Esquivel Garcia, 21, was convicted in August forthe June 2018 murder of Jared Vargas, 20. Vargas had been missing for three
days...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 9, 2019
A Bexar County District Court today heard a plea to the jurisdiction filed by attorneys from the
Bexar County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, who represented Bexar Countyin this matter.
Former Bexar
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 2, 2019
SAN ANTONIO – A man
found guilty for his role in a 2018 murder was sentenced to 65 years in prisonon Tuesday.
Joseph Alvarado was sentenced to 65 years in the murder of Tarik Ross, who was shot and killed on March 6, 2018, by individuals who s...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: October 2, 2019
A Bexar County Grand jury indicted Andre McDonald this morning on two felony charges related to the death of his wife, Andreen.
McDonald was first indicted on a charge of murder. The indictment alleges that on February 28, 2019, Andre ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 16, 2019
Since September 1st, Bexar County Grand Juries have handed down indictments in 396 felony cases – 135 of these involve family or domestic violence and are assigned to the Family Violence division of the Bexar County Criminal District Attorney&am...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 6, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 6, 2019
Theft/Exploitation of Elderly Offense Brings Life Sentence
The Bexar County Criminal District Attorney’s Office asked for and received the maximum sentence in a theft/exploitation of elderly case ...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: September 3, 2019
Bexar County grand juries handed down indictments in 275 felony cases last week, including charges for capital murder, murder and intoxication manslaughter.
Shandrick
Van Anthony Buckley is charged with Capital Murder-Incarcerated for Murder. Th...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 29, 2019
A
former manager of BIRD bakery was sentenced yesterday to four years inprison for stealing thousands of dollars from the business. She was also ordered to pay $124,000 in restitution.
Jessica Martinez, 24, pled no contest to Misappl...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: August 26, 2019
Bexar County Grand Juries handed down 359 felony indictments last week, including five indictments in four murder cases. Two of the murder cases are being handled by the District Attorney’s Office Family Violence Division. The other two murder c...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: March 20, 2019
On Monday, the jury in the 187th Criminal District Court convicted Michael Fernandez, a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detention officer, of Tampering with a Governmental Record, a Class A Misdemeanor.The charges against Michael Fernandez arose f...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 15, 2017
San
Antonio, Texas, December 15, 2017: Tuesday,a Bexar County Grand Jury returned five indictments against Emond Johnson, age
39, for the charges of Felony Murder, Arson resulting in Death, two charges ofArson and Bodily Injury, and Arson-...
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District Attorney - Press Releases
Posted on: December 1, 2017
San Antonio, Texas: During the No Refusal program
this past month, beginning at 12:01 a.m. on 11/1/2017 through 11:59 p.m. on 11/30/2017there were 515persons arrested for driving while intoxicated offenses and 258
blood draws. Below is a bre...
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District Attorney - Press Releases