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As Fiesta festivities fill the streets with food, music and celebration, officials are urging partygoers to think twice before getting behind the wheel after drinking.
A 25-year-old man is facing a DWI charge after San Antonio Police say he crashed his car into a firetruck that was working another crash scene.
A person has been arrested for driving while intoxicated after a single-vehicle crash injured a woman, according to San Antonio police.
A 19-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after a head-on crash on the Northwest Side on Wednesday, according to San Antonio police.
Eckhert Road near Connie Mack Drive has been the site of numerous crashes, neighbors said. In the latest crash, SAPD arrested Ehven Jones, 20, on suspicion of DWI.
A man was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after driving his vehicle into the side of a Circle K convenience store on the Northwest Side, according to San Antonio police.
A former San Antonio police officer who resigned months after being arrested in connection to a 2021 drunk driving hit-and-run case has again been charged with DWI, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
During a Thursday Judson Independent School District board of trustees meeting, no action was taken against a trustee whose arrest in 2023 for DWI was kept private.
The husband of Guadalupe County District Clerk Linda Balk was arrested Monday by Cibolo police on a repeat driving while intoxicated charge, booking records obtained Tuesday by KSAT Investigates show.
An off-duty deputy with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office was arrested over the weekend and charged with driving while intoxicated, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said in an email to KSAT.
A Bexar County district court judge on Thursday denied a motion to temporarily remove a Northside Independent School District trustee from office.
Rubi Tovar, 36, was arrested by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at about 10 p.m. and charged with driving while intoxicated, a Class B misdemeanor.
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has formally charged District 10 City Councilman Marc Whyte with DWI more than six months after his initial arrest on suspicion, according to online court records.
The Republican candidate for Texas House District 117 was charged with driving while intoxicated and unlawful carry of a weapon overnight following a crash along a San Antonio highway, booking records obtained by KSAT Investigates Wednesday show.
San Antonio police said its officers have a suspect in custody accused of driving while intoxicated before crashing into another vehicle.
A Bexar County jury sentenced a man Thursday to 26 years in prison for a violent DWI crash that claimed the life of a woman in 2022.
San Antonio City Councilman Marc Whyte (D10) briefly appeared in court for the first time Tuesday morning, four-and-a-half months after his Dec. 29 arrest for DWI.
Gabriel Arredondo Rosas, 20, is accused of driving while intoxicated and running over a Walmart worker. Records show he won't be old enough to drink legally until December.
A 60-year-old man was arrested early Saturday morning after crashing into a San Antonio police unit on the Northeast Side, according to SAPD.
San Antonio Councilman Marc Whyte’s first court appearance in his DWI case has been delayed for the second time in three months. Whyte is expected to appear for a pretrial conference on May 14.
The San Antonio Police Department said a man arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated caused a crash Friday night.
A man on trial for causing a drunk driving crash that killed a 44-year-old woman in March 2022 has been found guilty of intoxication manslaughter.
A Northside Independent School District trustee arrested last fall on suspicion of driving while intoxicated has entered a pretrial diversion program in the case, Bexar County court records confirm.
Yulissa Valero, 26, died last week in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 35. SAPD arrested a driver on the scene on suspicion of DWI/Intoxication Assault.
San Antonio City Councilmember Marc Whyte was suspended from his committee assignments on Thursday, the same day the San Antonio Police Department released video of his recent DWI arrest.
A Comal County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been terminated after investigators said he crashed his truck on Interstate 35 while driving intoxicated Dec. 24.
A man was arrested for an alleged DWI after he crashed his entire vehicle into a Southtown building early Saturday morning.
The San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness urges the public to be cautious if they plan to include alcohol in their holiday celebrations.
A drunk driver was taken into custody after causing a crash that left two people hospitalized, including a San Antonio police officer, according to SAPD.
San Antonio police arrested a driver who they believe was intoxicated when he crashed into one parked car, causing a chain reaction. In all, four parked cars were damaged.
A San Antonio firefighter has been placed on administrative duty after police in New Braunfels said he drove drunk, evaded arrest and was found in possession of drugs earlier this month.
A San Antonio mother of eight is expected to be out of work for nearly two years as she continues to recover from several broken bones following a suspected drunk driving crash last month, according to her family.
A driver was detained on suspicion of DWI after they allegedly hit and killed a man on a West Side highway late Sunday night, according to San Antonio police.
A Schertz police officer narrowly escaped disaster after their patrol vehicle was hit by an alleged drunk driver overnight on I-35, according to Schertz Police Department.
The parents of a man killed by an alleged drunk driver on Memorial Day weekend are not only grieving his death but questioning why it took so long for the suspect to be indicted on a previous crime.
A woman was killed and a man charged with intoxication manslaughter following a crash involving a golf cart in the Dominion.
Newly obtained security video from the night of Councilman Clayton Perry’s drunken hit-and-run shows he drank more than San Antonio Police had originally tallied, and much more than his attorney argued in court last month.
San Antonio City Councilman Clayton Perry drank more than 14 alcoholic beverages and repeatedly professed his love for a teenage drive-thru cashier shortly before crashing his Jeep into another vehicle and fleeing the scene, prosecution records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
Jeanne-Nicole Coutros was charged with intoxication manslaughter and evading arrest after hitting the vehicle Rodney Rex Rheiner was in.
If Perry successfully completes the special type of probation, the charges against him will be dismissed, and he will avoid a conviction on his record. Prosecutors from the Bexar County District Attorney’s opposed the deal, having offered a probation deal that would have required a conviction.
Three San Antonio police officers were each handed suspensions totaling 30 days this year after fumbling two drunk driving crash investigations in the same night, discipline paperwork released to KSAT Investigates shows.
Hays County Commissioner Walt Smith repeatedly stumbled in pain and claimed his eyes were burning during a 2021 interaction with police that ended with him being charged with DWI, body-worn camera footage obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.
Embattled San Antonio Councilman Clayton Perry appears to be trying to get into a specialty court for military veterans, which could help him keep drunk driving and hit-and-run charges off his public record.
A couple that stopped to help an intoxicated driver on the highway was hit by a second drunk driver early Saturday morning, according to San Antonio police.
Melissa Cruz said she is thankful she and her family are alive and well after a car barreled into her home on the city’s Northeast Side early Tuesday morning.
A bar accused of serving San Antonio Councilman Clayton Perry 14 alcoholic beverages in four hours before his November head-on crash is under investigation by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
An average of 15 people per day were booked on DWI charges during the Christmas holiday in Bexar County, according to data released by the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.
The driver who was arrested for intoxication manslaughter in a Dec. 22 crash that killed an 8-year-old girl was the child’s mother, San Antonio police confirmed.
Surveillance footage shows Perry consumed 14 alcoholic beverages in a four-hour span at a North Side bar on Nov. 6 before driving away alone, investigators said.
The family of Poteet police officer, Jeffrey Richardson, who was killed by a suspected drunk driver while working a contract job in Austin has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver that hit him and the bar that served the driver — and they’re seeking more than one million dollars in damages.
Embattled District 10 San Antonio Councilman Clayton Perry was arrested Wednesday on a DWI charge, which online court documents indicate is linked to his Nov. 6 alleged hit-and-run crash.
San Antonio police have filed a charge of driving while intoxicated against District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office following an investigation into a hit-and-run on Nov. 6.
A Schertz man whose truck was going more than twice the legal speed limit when it rear-ended another vehicle this summer, killing the driver, was arrested Wednesday on a manslaughter charge.
A Converse police officer accused of driving drunk flipped his vehicle several times and told officers he was not behind the wheel, San Antonio police records obtained Wednesday show.
Attorney Ernest Acevedo III says the public status and attention to Councilman Clayton Perry's case will likely mean a harsher punishment if he's found guilty.
San Antonio police will be filing an additional charge of Driving While Intoxicated against District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry following an investigation into a hit-and-run accident Sunday.
Several people are in the hospital, one person was arrested for DWI and one family’s home on the North Side has extensive damage after a car crashed into it overnight, according to San Antonio police.
Lee Martinez Jr., 27, was taken into custody by San Antonio police after an officer witnessed Martinez’s vehicle drifting between lanes in the 10500 block of Interstate 10 West, just before 1 a.m.
A women’s soccer coach at the University of Texas Permian Basin has been suspended following allegations of inappropriate behavior.
A Hays County commissioner who was charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing into a vehicle in Austin last year has been sentenced to nine months of community supervision in the case, Travis County court records show.
A Hays County commissioner crashed into another vehicle in west Austin before being charged with driving while intoxicated, court records related to his April 2021 arrest confirm.
A San Antonio Fire Department captain has been placed on administrative duty after being charged with driving while intoxicated, SAFD officials confirmed Friday.
San Antonio police said a woman was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver as she walked on a sidewalk in her Northwest Side neighborhood.
A man is hospitalized after he was struck by a car on the West Side overnight, according to San Antonio police.
San Antonio police are out in full force during Fiesta, looking for intoxicated drivers and stopping those stumbling to their vehicles before they start driving.
An alleged drunk driver was tased and taken into custody after acting “erratic and combative” toward Bexar County deputies following a rollover accident, officials said.
A woman is hospitalized after a suspected drunk driver crashed into the back of her vehicle while she was parked on the side of a Northwest Side road overnight, according to San Antonio police.
A veteran San Antonio firefighter has been removed from active duty after being charged with drunk driving late Saturday, city officials have confirmed.
A driver is in custody for a DWI charge after fatally striking a pedestrian with their vehicle on the Northwest Side overnight, according to San Antonio police.
A San Antonio-area woman charged with drunk driving six times in four counties has so far avoided a lengthy prison sentence, despite picking up additional charges last fall while on probation for felony DWI.
A Houston-area man was arrested after deputies say he had a lit barbecue pit in the bed of his truck, leading them to discover he was intoxicated and in possession of cocaine.
A San Antonio police officer with a documented history of road rage has resigned months after being charged in a drunk driving hit-and-run case, department officials confirmed Friday.
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Months after a special prosecutor agreed not to move forward with family violence and burglary charges against a fired San Antonio police detective, she was hired to represent the alleged victim, his mistress, in a separate case, the KSAT 12 Defenders confirmed Friday.
