{"id":456453,"date":"2026-10-04T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:32:11","slug":"two-bexar-sheriffs-office-deputies-resign-after-off-duty-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456453\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Bexar sheriff&#8217;s office deputies resign after off-duty arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two employees of the Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office were dishonorably discharged after off-duty weekend arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies Damian\u00a0Villegas, 19, and Damien Trevino, 25, were arrested by San Antonio police Sunday, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Villegas, who has worked for the sheriff\u2019s office for one year, was charged with reckless driving.\u00a0Trevino, an employee of four years, was charged with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the location and nature of the arrests were not immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both men resigned instead of being fired, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. The agency said it has reported the arrests to Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which trains, sets standards and licenses Texas police officers, jailers and emergency communications personnel. Both men have been discharged \u201ceffective immediately, under dishonorable conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur zero-tolerance stance is well known,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/sheriff-salazar-toudouze-double-magistration-22385191.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bexar County Sheriff Javier\u00a0Salazar<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cAny employee who chooses to drink and drive or willfully endanger the public should not be surprised when they\u2019re suddenly unemployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio police are conducting a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two employees of the Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office were dishonorably discharged after off-duty weekend arrests. Deputies Damian\u00a0Villegas, 19,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-456453","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\/456453","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=456453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}