The 18-year-old first entered the Bexar County jail in 2024 and was released in November when officials said they couldn’t view his juvenile warrants.
SAN ANTONIO — An 18-year-old who authorities say had an “active” murder warrant was taken into custody during a Tuesday traffic stop, nearly two weeks after he was released when Bexar County officials said they didn’t have “system permissions needed to view active juvenile warrants.”
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) said Wednesday that it was finally granted those permissions on Tuesday, the same day Angel David Salas was rearrested.
Salas is accused in a deadly 2023 robbery while also facing other charges. He first entered the Bexar County jail in December 2024 and was released in November 2025 after “all active cases were disposed of and no warrants appeared in state, national or county databases.”
Timeline from BCSO
- On Dec. 3, 2024, Salas was arrested by SAPD and charged with evading arrest, resisting arrest, and failure to identify. He also had three outstanding juvenile warrants, according to SAPD. “Intake staff documented a juvenile warrant hold based on information available during booking,” BCSO said.
- Later that same month, on Dec. 10, Salas was booked on three more warrants: two counts of burglary of vehicles and one count of theft of a firearm.
- On July 29, 2025, Salas was taken to Juvenile Court for a hearing and returned to jail that same day, according to BCSO.
- Then, on Aug. 2, Salas was booked on a seventh charge, manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, according to officials.
Online court records show that six of those charges were dismissed in late July, and Salas served his sentence for the final charge for drug manufacturing.
BCSO says Salas was then released after a system check showed no active warrants in online court magistrate records, and “no local, state or federal holds were present.”
He was released at 9:16 p.m. and left the facility at 9:56 p.m. on Nov. 19.
However, according to an internal review, BCSO did not have access to Salas’ juvenile records at the time since juvenile information is maintained on a “separate, restricted database outside of BCSO’s authorized network. ”
“Now, moving forward, as people transfer in and out, one of the things they will be granted, upon being assigned to booking, is this access (to juvenile records). Right now, everyone in booking has that access,” Sheriff Javier Salazar told KENS 5.
BCSO didn’t have the proper “system permissions” for personnel to be able to view active juvenile warrants, but it’s unclear what those juvenile warrants would have been for.
Come Monday evening, BCSO said they were notified by juvenile court officials that Salas was not appearing in Bexar County custody. The next day, he was taken back into custody during a traffic stop.
“It never became a problem up until this point here, where it became glaringly obvious that, ‘Hey, we don’t have access to this and we absolutely should,'” Salazar said.
Officials eventually discovered Salas has a murder warrant and two aggravated robbery warrants from when he was a juvenile. Salas was 17 at the time of a 2023 murder that he was allegedly involved in.
Salazar told KENS 5 that with this new access to juvenile records, he was confident the problem will not happen again.