Police lieutenant suspended indefinitely after allegedly altering internal documents<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to a disciplinary suspension order signed by San Antonio Police Chief William P. McManus, the order indefinitely suspends Lt. Steven G. Velasquez from paid duty \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d citing violations of the City of San Antonio Fire Fighters\u2019 and Police Officers\u2019 Civil Service Commission Rules and San Antonio Police Department rules.<\/p>\n
The suspension order states that on Aug. 15, 2025, a warrant for \u201ctamper w\/ govern record, defraud\/harm\u201d from the 175th District Court was issued for Velasquez \u201cfor his involvement related to an incident that occurred in Bexar County, Texas.\u201d The order says Velasquez was booked on the active warrant on Aug. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n
This came after Velasquez was indicted for allegedly removing himself as the involved employee from an incident report.<\/p>\n
The record is identified in the indictment as a \u201cBlueTeam Entry of IAPro. 2023-1056 and\/or Administrative Review Report IA2023-1056.\u201d The alleged false alteration, the indictment states, was \u201cthe defendant removing himself as Involved Employee Lieutenant Steven Velasquez from the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
The indictment alleges that on or about Nov. 29, 2023, Velasquez \u201cwith intent to defraud or harm another, namely San Antonio Police Department and\/or Timothy Brooks and\/or Julie Bernal and\/or Christine Dorsey and\/or China Grove Police Department,\u201d knowingly made a false alteration of a governmental record.<\/p>\n
Velasquez was indicted on charges of Tampering With Government Records to Defraud\/Harm.<\/p>\n
The order said Velasquez violated civil service rules, including \u201cacts showing lack of good moral character,\u201d \u201cconduct prejudicial to good order,\u201d and \u201cviolation of an applicable fire or police department rule or special order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County prosecutors dropped a felony records-tampering case Wednesday against a former San Antonio police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-472886","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\/472886","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=472886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}