raised concerns <\/a>last year that the Dallas County Fire Marshal\u2019s office acts more like a security force than a fire safety agency.<\/p>\nIn this fiscal year, the building security division has 107 positions and a budget of $15 million while the Fire Marshal has 12 positions and a $2.8 million budget, according to the county budget.<\/p>\n
Masri\u2019s first infraction this year, according to human resources records, came after he pushed back on the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office taking the lead on a multi-agency active shooter drill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency services Chief Scott Forster announced on Feb. 12 the sheriff\u2019s office would lead the upcoming drill. Four days later, Masri drafted an email to Forster in the voice of County Commissioner Theresa Daniel stating the appointment of the sheriff\u2019s office as training lead was done \u201cdespite the direction I previously provided,\u201d according to a human resources investigation.<\/p>\n
Fire Marshal Captain Philip Brown told human resources workers he hand-delivered Masri\u2019s draft email to Daniel. Daniel sent the email that afternoon to Forster and the four other county commissioners, records show.<\/p>\n
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Masri was given \u201cverbal counseling\u201d on the incident. A month later, Dallas County Administrator Darryl Martin asked human resources to investigate.<\/p>\n
On April 12, while the email issue was under investigation, firearm instructor Tony Hinojosa emailed Fire Chief Robert De Los Santos to report an officer\u2019s mishandling of a gun five days earlier at the county administration building during a debrief of a bomb threat.<\/p>\n
Hinojosa said he witnessed the officer, later confirmed to be Masri, unholster his gun around others in \u201ca sul position,\u201d where a gun is pulled to the body and pointed down.<\/p>\n
Then Assistant Chief Michael Barber wrote in an internal review Masri pulled the gun \u201cin a joking\u201d manner while talking with another employee. A captain said he witnessed Masri holding his gun in the sul position while talking to someone and intervened, saying: \u201cWhat are you doing? Put that away,\u201d according to a county memo.<\/p>\n
Masri received a written warning May 7, records show. He previously did not respond to questions from The News sent to him or his lawyers.<\/p>\n
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The day after the gun incident, security systems analyst Allen Rucker said Masri entered his office, began picking an argument and cursed at him, according to an email he sent to De Los Santos. Rucker said Masri called female colleagues \u201cbitches\u201d and made a comment he took as a threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Records do not indicate whether Rucker\u2019s complaint was investigated. The human resources investigation into the email concluded May 19 and Masri was fired June 8 for violating employee conduct rules and insubordination.<\/p>\n
Masri is appealing the termination from his $160,000-a-year job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas County Marshals at the Dallas County Commissioners Court in Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Anja Schlein\/Special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,89138],"class_list":["post-458701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458701","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=458701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}