{"id":36699,"date":"2025-11-05T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/36699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:37:08","slug":"charges-dropped-against-former-civilian-lpd-employee-accused-of-assaulting-67-year-old-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/36699\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against former civilian LPD employee accused of assaulting 67-year-old sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Charges against a former Lubbock Police Department civilian employee have been dismissed after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/08\/13\/lpd-sex-offender-registration-coordinator-arrested-felony-charge-injury-elderly\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/08\/13\/lpd-sex-offender-registration-coordinator-arrested-felony-charge-injury-elderly\/\">accused of injuring an elderly registered sex offender back in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The request to drop the case against Daniel Diaz-Gonzalez was filed on Thursday, Oct. 30 in the 364th District Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In August, Diaz-Gonzalez was arrested and charged with injury to the elderly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say shortly after 10 a.m. on July 24, Diaz-Gonzalez confronted 67-year-old Steven Sardinta in the lobby at LPD headquarters. Court documents indicate he reacted to something Sardinta said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Surveillance footage shows Diaz-Gonzalez pushing Sardinta to the ground after the two got into a verbal fight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sardinta filed a complaint that same day stating he suffered bruising and bodily injury after he was pushed down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is an internal employment matter, and the City of Lubbock does not provide comment on internal employment matters. Mr. Diaz-Gonzalez was terminated due to his violation of City of Lubbock Personnel Policies,\u201d the Lubbock Police Department said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Diaz-Gonzalez was fired from the Lubbock Police Department on September 4. He served as the Sex Offender Registration Coordinator since July 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Charges against a former Lubbock Police Department civilian employee have been dismissed after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23082,23081,294,23080,319,251,1739,168,1742,170,169,3605],"class_list":["post-36699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-case-dropped","tag-charges-dropped","tag-crime","tag-daniel-diaz-gonzalez","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-crime","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699","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=36699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}