“He just came to work here this afternoon, and now he’s being booked in as an inmate,” Sheriff Salazar said.
SAN ANTONIO — The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has arrested former deputy Jorge Alejandro Rocha for allegedly letting inmates attack other inmates.
Sheriff Salazar says this arrest comes two weeks after another former deputy was arrested in connection a murder case where he allowed a group to enter an inmate’s cell and ‘violently attack’ him. The two deputies were reportedly not working together, but they committed similar crimes by allowing or “turning a blind eye” to allow inmates to attack other inmates.
Inmates were reportedly worried to bring the crime to authorities as Rocha was still in the building working for the jail, which caused BCSO to prepare to let Rocha go on administrative leave so they could investigate and get information from inmates.
But the sheriff said he went into serve Rocha termination papers, he decided to resign and reportedly made some admissions to the crimes.
This led BCSO to issue arrest warrants and book Rocha into the Bexar County Jail.
Rocha had worked for BCSO since 2022, and is now facing charges of official oppression and interfering with public duties.
“He is now a former law enforcement officer and. as we speak, being booked into the Bexar County Jail,” said Salazar. “A place where he just came to work here this afternoon and now he’s being booked in as an inmate.”