{"id":196402,"date":"2025-09-03T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/196402\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:54:18","slug":"officer-arrested-by-coworkers-for-alleged-dwi-after-failing-sobriety-test-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/196402\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer arrested by coworkers for alleged DWI after failing sobriety test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211;  The full video of a San Antonio Police Officer&#8217;s arrest and field sobriety test has been released.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, July 31, San Antonio Police Officer Paul Fencik, assigned to SAPD\u2019s South Patrol Division, was taken into custody at the South Patrol Substation.<\/p>\n<p>Court records allege that the officer had be caught on video driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED |<a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/sapd-officer-arrested-for-alleged-dwi-while-on-duty-court-law-drinking-while-intoxicated#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/sapd-officer-arrested-for-alleged-dwi-while-on-duty-court-law-drinking-while-intoxicated#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\"> SAPD officer arrested for alleged DWI while on duty <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fencik could be seen on bodycam video being read his Miranda Rights, and submitting to a field sobriety test inside of a common area within the police substation.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Fencik was confronted by a group of his fellow officers, who presented him with the accusations. He had strong words for his coworkers, condemning them for pursuing the arrest. <\/p>\n<p>He can then be seen being arrested by the administering officer, before being taken to the Bexar County Jail on charges of Drive While Intoxicated while on duty. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply disappointed that an officer would choose to drink and drive, endangering the very community we are sworn to protect,\u201d SAPD Chief William McManus said in a statement. \u201cThis behavior represents a clear violation of the public\u2019s trust and the standards of conduct expected from those in our Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fencik, who has served with the department for 18 years, has been placed on administrative duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The full video of a San Antonio Police Officer&#8217;s arrest and field sobriety test has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,12424,7245,29486,7981,108663,7202,7203,7725,81801,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-196402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-bexar-county-jail","11":"tag-dwi","12":"tag-police-officer","13":"tag-public-trust","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sapd","17":"tag-sobriety-test","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115139527615412449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}