{"id":437226,"date":"2025-12-10T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:24:14","slug":"man-arrested-on-dwi-suspicion-dies-due-to-medical-episode-while-in-sapd-custody-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437226\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on DWI suspicion dies due to \u2018medical episode\u2019 while in SAPD custody, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 San Antonio police said it is investigating how a man suspected of driving while intoxicated (DWI) died in its custody early Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n

According to an SAPD report, officers arrested a 61-year-old man on DWI suspicion just before 6 p.m. Monday near the intersection of San Pedro Avenue and West Woodlawn Avenue. <\/p>\n

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While he was being transported to the Bexar County Adult Detention Center and Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office custody, authorities said he suffered a \u201cmedical episode\u201d and was transported by emergency personnel to a local hospital for further treatment. <\/p>\n

Police said the man died at the hospital just before 3:15 a.m. Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office told KSAT that the man was identified as Darryl Valadez, 61. His cause and manner of death remain under investigation. <\/p>\n

KSAT Investigates asked SAPD specific details about Valadez\u2019s detaining, including whether or not he showed any signs of illness or distress, as well as where he was held during the more than nine hours he spent between his arrest and death. <\/p>\n

KSAT also asked SAPD for body-worn camera and dashboard camera video of Valadez\u2019s arrest and the more than nine hours leading up to Valadez\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

As of Tuesday night, the department has yet to respond to KSAT\u2019s questions and requests. <\/p>\n

According to a KSAT Investigates analysis, Valadez is SAPD\u2019s third in-custody death of the year. <\/p>\n

Read more reporting on the KSAT Investigates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2025 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 San Antonio police said it is investigating how a man suspected of driving while…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,24545,7288,31872,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-437226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bcso","10":"tag-bexar-county","11":"tag-ksat-investigates","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sapd","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693844178269466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437226","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=437226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}