{"id":260603,"date":"2026-04-22T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:02:10","slug":"el-paso-police-officer-arrested-for-dwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260603\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Police officer arrested for DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 An El Paso Police officer was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Friday, April 17, according to jail records obtained by KTSM 9 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jasson Isrrael Medina Rivera was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility, but was released on a $2,500 cash surety bond the same day, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a recent city employee list obtained by KTSM, Medina Rivera was posted as an officer with EPPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El Paso Police confirmed that he was a police officer and he has been relieved of his duties. He was with the department with one year and five months, the Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KTSM has reached out to the El Paso Police Department for a statement on the matter. As well, KTSM has requested for the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story and will update you once we learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 An El Paso Police officer was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,1060,140,139,1785,2263,97566,498,97567,2086,2455],"class_list":["post-260603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-jasson-isrrael-medina-rivera","tag-ktsm","tag-medina-rivera","tag-police-department","tag-police-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}