{"id":362829,"date":"2026-07-06T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362829\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:04:06","slug":"ex-el-paso-officer-gets-10-years-supervision-30-days-jail-in-domestic-violence-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362829\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-El Paso officer gets 10 years\u2019 supervision, 30 days jail in domestic violence case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former El Paso police officer has been sentenced to 10 years of community supervision after pleading guilty to felony domestic violence charges involving two victims within a 12-month period.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Anthony Gallardo, 30, a former El Paso Police Department officer, pleaded guilty June 23, to two third-degree felony offenses: Assault Impeding Breath or Circulation involving a dating partner and Continuous Violence Against the Family. <\/p>\n<p>The charges stemmed from assaults involving two victims within a 12-month period. <\/p>\n<p>In one incident, witnesses observed Gallardo assaulting a victim in public and intervened until law enforcement arrived. Gallardo also assaulted a second victim during the same timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/joshua-gallardo?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ex-El Paso officer uses vacation time to offset suspension<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gallardo also pleaded guilty June 4, 2026, to misdemeanor terroristic threat and harassment charges for making 552 unwanted phone calls to the second victim between September and October 2024, including leaving a threatening voicemail.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his sentence, Gallardo was ordered to serve 30 days in the El Paso County Detention Facility, complete 500 hours of community service, pay a $1,000 fine, voluntarily surrender his Texas peace officer license, complete the Batterer Intervention and Prevention Program, and have no contact with the victims.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-officer-accused-of-chocking-woman-while-driving-after-heavy-night-of-drinking-joshua-annthony-gallardo?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso officer accused of choking woman while driving after heavy night of drinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo abuser is above the law. Our office will continue to work to hold accountable those who commit domestic violence, regardless of their position or profession,\u201d District Attorney James Montoya said. \u201cI also want to thank the El Paso Police Department\u2019s Special Investigations Unit for their work on this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former El Paso police officer has been sentenced to 10 years of community supervision after pleading guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-362829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362829","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=362829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}