SAN ANTONIO – A police officer has been indefinitely suspended without pay after an internal affairs investigation found he used profanity and unnecessary force against a handcuffed suspect during a December 2025 arrest on the city\u2019s West Side.<\/p>\n
The report says that at about 10 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2025, Trevino was dispatched to an Inn Town Suites at 7490 Culebra Road for an intoxicated male. Before Trevino arrived, a cover officer apprehended the man after a brief foot pursuit, and Trevino was rerouted to the arrest scene at 7230 Culebra Road.<\/p>\n
During a search, the suspect began using profanity and resisting, the report states. Body-worn camera footage captured Trevino telling the suspect, \u201cShut the f**k up.\u201d <\/p>\n
The report says Trevino placed the suspect on the ground after he continued to resist the search, and the suspect continued directing profanities at Trevino. <\/p>\n
The footage captured Trevino telling the suspect, \u201cShut the f**k up,\u201d a second time. The report states Trevino \u201csubjected a suspect to verbal abuse while he was handcuffed and under arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report also describes several uses of force captured on body-worn camera video. It says Trevino escorted the suspect to his patrol car and \u201cappeared to push the suspect into the front passenger door,\u201d after which Trevino could be heard stating, \u201cBe careful, there is a car there,\u201d after the suspect struck the door.<\/p>\n
The report says video also showed Trevino near the right rear passenger door of his patrol vehicle, where he \u201cappeared to throw the suspect onto the ground while handcuffed,\u201d and the suspect injured his right elbow. <\/p>\n
While the suspect was on his back and handcuffed, the report says Trevino used \u201ca closed right fist to punch the suspect in the face approximately three times.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report says that when Trevino attempted to place the suspect into the back seat of the patrol car, the suspect refused to enter. Trevino could be heard telling the suspect, \u201cGet inside the f**king car.\u201d The report says Trevino \u201cappeared to slap the suspect in the face with an open right hand and force him into the patrol car.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficer Trevino\u2019s actions render his continuance in office detrimental to effective law enforcement and the needs of the San Antonio Police Department,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Police Department\u2019s official suspension report says Officer Arturo Trevino, badge No. 0357, was suspended \u201cindefinitely, without pay effective immediately\u201d under the Texas Local Government Code.<\/p>\n
The report states Trevino violated the City of San Antonio Fire Fighters\u2019 and Police Officers\u2019 Civil Service Commission Rules, citing \u201cdiscourtesy to the public or to a fellow employee while the firefighter or police officer is in the line of duty,\u201d \u201cconduct prejudicial to good order,\u201d and \u201cviolation of an applicable fire or police department rule or special order.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the report, the suspension is tied to two cited violations of the department\u2019s prisoner-treatment policy, which states: \u201cPrisoners shall be protected in their legal rights, given humane treatment, and shall not be subjected to verbal abuse or unnecessary physical violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A police officer has been indefinitely suspended without pay after an internal affairs investigation found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-378202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378202","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=378202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}