{"id":68625,"date":"2025-07-17T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:27:08","slug":"city-of-san-antonio-fires-it-employee-after-arrest-for-alleged-sexual-assault-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68625\/","title":{"rendered":"City of San Antonio fires IT employee after arrest for alleged sexual assault of child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Angel Cazares Jr. had been employed with San Antonio since March of 2024<\/p>\n<p>Jose Angel Cazares Jr. booking photo. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A now-former City of San Antonio employee was fired after he was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to court records and a statement obtained by KSAT Investigates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to an arrest warrant, Jose Angel Cazares Jr., 42, sexually assaulted the child on multiple occasions beginning in May 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The warrant said that Cazares was captured on a security camera sexually assaulting the child, even as the child attempted to push him away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to his LinkedIn profile, Cazares was employed with the City of San Antonio as an information technology (IT) service desk specialist since March 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In a statement to KSAT on Wednesday, the city confirmed that Cazares has since been fired. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Court records indicate that Cazares remains in the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on $100,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More recent crime coverage on KSAT:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Authors<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 jbJvfh cLUOeE author-container\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 grUvMp iQviKm author\">Spencer Heath headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/SH48BVPOEQ23109VBCZTHV\/\" title=\"View Spencer Heath&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Heath<\/a>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Spencer Heath is a Digital Journalist at KSAT. Spencer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He\u2019s worked as a journalist in San Antonio since June of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the newsroom, he enjoys watching movies and spending time with family.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 grUvMp iQviKm author\">Dillon Collier headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/IUK5CSRZYBABDJKF3PQSFTD5PQ\/\" title=\"View Dillon Collier&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Collier<\/a>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Emmy-award winning reporter Dillon Collier joined KSAT Investigates in September 2016. Dillon&#8217;s investigative stories air weeknights on the Nightbeat and on the Six O&#8217;Clock News. Dillon is a two-time Houston Press Club Journalist of the Year and a Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Reporter of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Angel Cazares Jr. had been employed with San Antonio since March of 2024 Jose Angel Cazares Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,4219,31872,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-68625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-ksat-investigates","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114865978934820892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625","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=68625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}