Joshua Saunders
Photojournalist

Joshua Saunders is an Emmy award-winning photographer/editor who has worked in the San Antonio market for the past 20 years. Joshua works in the Defenders unit, covering crime and corruption throughout the city.
Joshua Saunders is an Emmy award-winning photographer/editor who has worked in the San Antonio market for the past 20 years. Joshua works in the Defenders unit, covering crime and corruption throughout the city.
A San Antonio police officer is serving a 15-day suspension after body-worn camera footage showed him verbally abusing a man taken into custody on misdemeanor charges.
Three San Antonio police officers all faced contemplated indefinite suspensions after being accused of criminal wrongdoing in New Braunfels in separate incidents over an 11-month period. None of them, however, have ever faced criminal charges, an analysis by KSAT Investigates revealed.
A Bexar County judge set a date for a motion to quash the indictment of Brad Simpson, the Olmos Park man charged with murdering his wife last year.
A couple initially charged with marijuana possession in late January said San Antonio police officers used excessive force and wrongfully arrested them for possessing a legal THC product.
Body-worn camera footage played publicly for the first time Wednesday showed a San Antonio police officer firing twice at a then-teenager who was running away from him in a West Side neighborhood.
A former Medina County sheriff’s deputy said she was terminated last fall after raising concerns about an unlawful search conducted by a fellow deputy.
A veteran San Antonio police officer served a five-day suspension this month after a man he failed to take into custody for unlawfully possessing a weapon was shot and killed 30 minutes later, city discipline records show.
Former Bexar constable Michelle Barrientes Vela has been formally acquitted of criminal charges, after the state’s highest criminal appeals court declined to review a lower court’s decision to overturn her convictions last year, sources told KSAT Wednesday.
San Antonio Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Jaime Aquino cited safety concerns for students walking to school or waiting at bus stops as the driving force behind the decision to keep campuses closed last month, even as other districts reopened. But internal records obtained Tuesday by KSAT Investigates tell a much different story, as SAISD continues to grapple with heating and cooling infrastructure woes.
The next hearing for Brad Simpson, the Olmos Park man charged with murdering his wife last year, was pushed back one week, according to a 437th District Court Coordinator.