SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A San Antonio police officer was indefinitely suspended after an internal investigation found he drove recklessly during an emergency response, failed to report a patrol vehicle crash involving another officer and later made false statements about how the damage occurred.<\/p>\n
According to city disciplinary records, Officer Rafael Morado was suspended following an investigation into his actions while responding to a Code Two call on December 2025.<\/p>\n
Upon review of body camera video and vehicle location data, investigators determined Morado drove a marked patrol vehicle at speeds of up to 65 mph in a 35 mph zone on Castroville Road and 60 mph in 30 mph zones on Guadalupe Street and South Zarzamora Street. The investigation also found Morado drove through six red lights without making complete stops. <\/p>\n
Before arriving at the original call, Morado’s patrol vehicle rear-ended another marked SAPD patrol unit at the intersection of Brady Boulevard and South Calaveras Street, according to disciplinary records.<\/p>\n
Investigators said neither officer reported the crash to a supervisor, despite department policy requiring officers involved in crashes while operating city vehicles to immediately notify supervisors. Instead, both officers continued responding to the call.<\/p>\n
The collision went unreported until January 2026, when another officer noticed damage to Morado’s patrol vehicle and alerted supervisors, prompting an internal investigation. The following day, after supervisors asked during roll call if anyone knew how the patrol vehicle had been damaged, Morado admitted he was responsible but claimed he struck a curb.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined those statements were false after reviewing video evidence showing Morado’s patrol vehicle struck the rear of the other patrol unit.<\/p>\n
The records did not state whether the other officer involved in the crash received disciplinary action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A San Antonio police officer was indefinitely suspended after an internal investigation found he drove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-378234","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\/378234","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=378234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}