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.
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.
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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, will be in 30 days, a judge said Wednesday.
A San Antonio police detective who was credited with breaking up a violent burglary and car theft ring last summer was fired months later, after investigators said he struck two teenagers during their arrests.
A Judson Independent School District transportation supervisor has resigned, the department’s director and assistant director have filed retirement paperwork and its payroll clerk was moved out of her position amid a payroll discrepancy investigation, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
A child sex abuse defendant who has avoided going to trial for years by claiming he is too sick to make court appearances was rearrested Friday, after violating conditions of his bond.
Prosecutors in Guadalupe County have requested that a defendant charged with sexually abusing children more than a decade ago appear in person for a status hearing late next week, after the man’s accusers gathered footage raising questions about whether he is actually too unwell to go to trial.
Prosecutors in Medina County dismissed a felony charge against a car theft suspect last year amid accusations that a sheriff’s lieutenant searched the man’s home without a warrant, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
In his first public comments since being terminated by city council last month, ex-Windcrest police chief Jimmie Cole said he had a responsibility to file more than a dozen ethics complaints.