{"id":514158,"date":"2026-01-13T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:16:13","slug":"former-dallas-police-union-leader-departs-department-amid-fatal-crash-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514158\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dallas police union leader departs department amid fatal crash investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former president of Dallas\u2019 largest police union has left the Police Department while on administrative leave during an investigation into his involvement in a fatal off-duty crash<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

Jaime Castro, a 27-year officer, is ineligible for rehire because he was the subject of an ongoing internal affairs investigation, a police spokesperson said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Allison Hudson, the police spokesperson, declined to answer a list of questions about Castro\u2019s departure, saying the internal affairs investigation would continue under state rules governing officers who leave while under investigation.<\/p>\n

Castro, who held the rank of senior corporal, remained on duty until November, when department leadership placed him on administrative leave as part of the internal inquiry. Department records reviewed by The Dallas Morning News listed the rationale<\/a> as \u201cGrand Jury referral for Class A Misdemeanor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Neither Castro nor his attorney, John Snider, responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

The departure comes weeks after the Dallas Police Association\u2019s membership voted in a new president.<\/a> Castro, who was on leave at the time of the election, ran unsuccessfully to remain in the top spot. Sgt. Sean Pease was sworn in as president at the association\u2019s board meeting Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Castro\u2019s case stems from a March 15 multivehicle crash in northwest Dallas that killed a pedestrian, Atianna Washington, 25, who was trying to cross a roadway. The crash set off inquiries into what happened and how responding officers investigated it.<\/p>\n

An incident report written by a responding officer listed Castro, then the union\u2019s president, as a passenger in one of the vehicles. <\/p>\n

Department records reviewed by The Dallas Morning News show Officer Evan Muller and another responder, Officer Robert Wilcox Jr., were placed on administrative leave while the department investigated an allegation they had failed to properly investigate the crash.<\/p>\n

Muller\u2019s report states the vehicle Castro was in had two other occupants and the area where Washington was struck had no dedicated crosswalk and \u201cvery little to no\u201d lighting. <\/p>\n

A toxicology analysis found Washington was intoxicated with alcohol and drugs, according to a May supplement to the report that does not specify the degree of intoxication or which drugs were found. It lists the findings as \u201ccontributing factors\u201d in the crash.<\/p>\n

Police officials have declined to say whether Muller and Wilcox faced disciplinary action and if they have returned to duty. The two remained on leave until at least Aug. 15, according to department records.<\/p>\n

An attorney for Washington\u2019s family was not available for comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Castro, 52, joined the department in 1998 and was last assigned to the department\u2019s alarm unit, which is housed in the office of the police chief. The association membership elected him president in January 2024. Before then, he had served on the union\u2019s executive board since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former president of Dallas\u2019 largest police union has left the Police Department while on administrative leave during…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":514159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,347,36464,4219,1596,14841,14842,8629,5292,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-514158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-breaking-news-newsletter","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-city-hall","14":"tag-dallas-police","15":"tag-local-politics","16":"tag-public-safety","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115890342548392708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514158","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=514158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}