{"id":409241,"date":"2025-11-27T22:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409241\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:02:13","slug":"schertz-officer-fired-amid-sexual-assault-oppression-allegations-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409241\/","title":{"rendered":"Schertz officer fired amid sexual assault, oppression allegations, department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCHERTZ, Texas \u2014 A Schertz police officer has been fired amid allegations of sexual assault and oppression, the department said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Schertz Police Department, Officer Alberto De La Torre was fired last week for a \u201csustained complaint of Truthfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 14, the department began a sexual assault and official oppression report that listed Officer De La Torre as the alleged suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Officer De La Torre was assigned to the department\u2019s K-9 unit and began working for Schertz PD in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers\u2019 rights are important, but so is protecting the public we took an oath to serve and preserving the integrity and public trust of our organization,\u201d Police Chief James Lowery said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers have taken the lead as the investigating agency on the ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCHERTZ, Texas \u2014 A Schertz police officer has been fired amid allegations of sexual assault and oppression, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-409241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409241","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=409241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}