Kevin Vanlanham, 36, has worked at Pease Middle School less than a year<\/p>\n
Kevin Vanlanham, 36, was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (Bexar County Adult Detention Center)<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A West Side middle school principal was arrested early Wednesday morning and is accused of driving while intoxicated, jail records show.<\/p>\n Kevin Vanlanham<\/a>, 36, drove the wrong way on West Loop 1604 and was pulled over by Converse police just after 2 a.m., a Converse lieutenant officer told KSAT.<\/p>\n He failed his breathalyzer test and was taken into custody for Class B misdemeanor DWI, records show. He was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center and released on bond after 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Vanlanham has worked as principal of E.M. Pease Middle School, a Northside Independent School District campus, since last summer, according to the school\u2019s website. <\/p>\n As of Wednesday evening, Vanlanham is still employed by NISD, a spokesperson for the district told KSAT. They said he is not on leave at the time.<\/p>\n Vanlanham has worked as an educator in San Antonio since 2013, according to NISD\u2019s website.<\/p>\n Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n About the Authors<\/p>\n Samuel Rocha joined KSAT as a Newsroom Trainee in the spring of 2026. He is a San Antonio native and a graduate of San Antonio College and Texas A&M University-San Antonio.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Zaria Oates is a news reporter for KSAT 12. She joined in June 2024 from Memphis, where she worked at ABC24. <\/p>\n Oates graduated from Clemens High School in Schertz and earned a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. <\/p>\n She’s passionate about learning, traveling and storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Vanlanham, 36, has worked at Pease Middle School less than a year Kevin Vanlanham, 36, was arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":811220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,329654,4219,29486,31872,7287,329655,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-811219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-converse-police-department","tag-crime","tag-dwi","tag-ksat-investigates","tag-nisd","tag-pease-middle-school","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116610179235115164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811219","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=811219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/ul>\n
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