The officer later said he “panicked” and left the scene while admitting to drinking before driving, San Antonio police records state.
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio police officer was suspended indefinitely and without pay after fleeing the scene of a crash in which witnesses reported seeing the driver stumbling and appearing “like he couldn’t speak,” according to disciplinary records.
That incident, records state, happened just after midnight on July 11, 2025. Officers responded to the single-vehicle accident at Wurzbach and Blanco after receiving 911 calls about a driver who “hit both the median and a police and abandoned his vehicle.”
According to records, responding officers searched the car and found Officer Luis Carrillo’s SAPD jacket and other gear. They further connected him to the car after running the license plate.
A short time later, records state, Carrillo asked an off-duty officer to give him a ride home from Hardberger Park just down the street. Carrillo allegedly told that officer he was “involved in a vehicle accident after consuming alcoholic beverages,” and the SAPD colleague reported Carrillo was intoxicated.
Carrillo reported for duty later that day, which is when he was asked to fill an Officer’s Response to a Complaint form. Accords to records, he admitted to drinking and crashing his car, adding he “panicked and left the scene of the accident.”
SAPD personnel found “Officer Carrillo’s actions did not conform to the ordinary and reasonable rules of good conduct and/or brought reproach and discredit on himself and the department.”
He was subsequently suspended without pay starting on Oct. 24, 2025.