“He just came to work here this afternoon, and now he’s being booked in as an inmate,” Sheriff Salazar said Friday night.
SAN ANTONIO — The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has arrested now-former deputy Jorge Alejandro Rocha for allegedly letting inmates attack other inmates, marking the second such arrest in a matter of weeks for the San Antonio-area agency.
Sheriff Javier Salazar said Friday night that the arrest comes two weeks after another former deputy, Clemente Lopez Jr., was arrested in connection to a murder case where he allegedly allowed a group to enter an inmate’s cell and “violently attack” him. That inmate, 46-year-old Francisco Bazan, died from his injuries April 30.
Rocha and Lopez were not working together, Salazar said, but they committed similar crimes by allowing or “turning a blind eye” to allow inmates to attack other jail prisoners.
Inmates were reportedly worried to bring the crime to authorities as Rocha, 30, was still in the building working for the jail, the sheriff added. That caused BCSO to prepare to assign Rocha to administrative leave so they could investigate and get information from inmates.
But the sheriff said that when he went in to serve Rocha his termination papers, he decided to resign and 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. His bond has not yet been set.
“He is now a former law enforcement officer and, as we speak, (is)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.”
If Rocha is unable to make bond, he’ll be moved to another county’s jail, the sheriff clarified. Former law enforcement personnel, he said, are never housed in the same facility as other inmates they had supervised.