{"id":477883,"date":"2026-10-27T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477883\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:56:11","slug":"texas-dps-trooper-arrested-for-dwi-in-new-braunfels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477883\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DPS trooper arrested for DWI in New Braunfels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fernando-gomez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\">Fernando Daniel Gomez, 36 <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas &#8211; A Texas DPS trooper was suspended after being arrested for DWI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">According to Texas DPS, on August 30, trooper Fernando Daniel Gomez, 36, was arrested by New Braunfels police for driving while intoxicated (DWI)\/ open container.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">This incident happened while he was off-duty.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">He was booked into the Comal County Jail.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The DPS&#8217; Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an internal investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Gomez remains suspended with pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Texas DPS said Gomez started with the department in 2015 and is stationed in San Antonio. He is assigned to The Alamo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Texas Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/comal-county\/new-braunfels\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Braunfels<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Fernando Daniel Gomez, 36 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas &#8211; A Texas DPS trooper was suspended after being arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,11849,1046,359,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-477883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-comal-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-braunfels","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477883","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=477883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}