SAYING BEXAR COUNTY WAS WITHOUT AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR SEVERAL MINUTES TODAY. DUE TO THE HIGH
VOLUME OF CALLS.
NEW TONIGHT ARBITRATION
FOR FIRED SAN ANTONIO POLICE
DETECTIVE DANIEL PEW WAS
SCHEDULED TO BEGIN EARLY
NEXT WEEK THAT’S MORE THAN 2
YEARS AFTER HE WAS FIRED
FOLLOWING A FAMILY ASSAULT
ARREST. BUT AS THE NIGHT TEAM’S
DILLON COLLIER REPORTS PUGH WAS
NEVER PROSECUTED A TREND IN OUR
AREA WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT IS
ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL WRONGDOING.
WE DO HAVE A WARNING
THE STORY DESCRIBES DATING
VIOLENCE AND MAY BE DISTURBING
FOR SOME VIEWERS.
>> THAT IS OFF-DUTY SAN ANTONIO POLICE DETECTIVE DANIEL PEW IN HANDCUFFS IN THE BACK OF A
DEOME AND REPEATEDLY
PUNCHING HER IN THE FACE. >> SHE FEEL SAFE MILES.
>> WHILE PUGH TOLD A FELLOW SAPD OFFICER WHO RESPONDED TO THE SCENE THAT HE WAS TRYING TO
KEEP THE WOMAN FROM COMING
INSIDE. HE WAS LIKELY UNAWARE
THAT HIS NEIGHBOR, THEY CAN WIN
ONE HAD NOT ONLY CALLED FOR
HELP BUT PROVIDED A DISPATCHER
A 6 AND A HALF MINUTE ACCOUNT
OF THE SHOULD BE.
>> SHE IS LEADING.
>> YOU KNOW SOMETHING KNOWN.
>> AS IT PLAYED OUT ACROSS THE
STREET.
>> WE JUST NOT GOING.
>> HE HIT HER AGAIN, WOW AGAIN.
>> MY TIME TO SEND. >> WHY WHY TAKE IT WAS NO
PROBABLE CAUSE.
>> HUGHES REPEATED CLAIMS THAT
HE WAS NO LONGER ROMANTICALLY
INVOLVED WITH THE VICTIM TOOK A
BIG HIT
WHEN A FELLOW OFFICER WALKED
INTO INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN
CONFIRMED PUGH HAD CONFRONTED
HIM IN THE WOMAN AS THEY SLEPT
IN HER APARTMENT.
>> NEXT THING I KNOW THAT IF
I’M A LITTLE
SHOCKED AND VERY EMBARRASSED
ENCOUNTER HAPPENED 7 HOURS
BEFORE PEWS ARREST EVERY
>> BUT BY THE TIME FEW CAME TO COURT 2 SUMMERS AGO, WHAT APPEARED TO BE A STRONG CASE
HAD WEEKEND. THE VICTIM REFUSED
TO COOPERATE WITH INVESTIGATORS
AND THE BEXAR COUNTY DISTRICT
ATTORNEYS HAD
RECUSED HIMSELF AFTER REALIZING
THAT ONE OF PEWS RELATIVES
WORKS FOR HIM.
THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR THEN
DISMISSED THE CHARGE AGAINST
PUGH AFTER HE COMPLETED AN
ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASS.
>> SO IN THE ORDINARY
CRIMINAL CASE, THE PROSECUTORS
AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE ON THE
SAME SIDE, BUT IT GETS
COMPLICATED WHEN A PEACE
OFFICERS ACCUSED OF A CRIME
ACCORDING TO DONNA COLE FAR AN
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT SAINT
MARY’S SCHOOL OF LAW
AND AN ASSISTANT FEDERAL PUBLIC
DEFENDER, YOU KNOW THEY’RE ON
YOUR TEAM. THEY TESTIFIED FOR
YOU YOU GO TO THE SAME SOCIAL
EVENTS. YOU BELIEVE YOURSELVES
TO BE WORKING FOR THE SAME THINGS RIGHT TAKE THE CASE OF GUADALUPE COUNTY SHERIFF’S
DEPUTY CHRISTOPHER LAW CLEAR
HE RESIGNED IN MAY 3 WEEKS
AFTER AN INCIDENT INVOLVING A
TEENAGE GIRL AT HIS BROTHER’S
HOME IN CONVERSE
WHERE HIS BROTHER HAPPENS TO
ALSO WORK AS A POLICE OFFICER.
AFTER WE ASKED CONVERSE PD FOR
THE REPORT,
A CITY OFFICIAL TOLD US THERE
WERE NO RECORDS. AND LATER
REFUSED TO PROVIDE IT EVEN
AFTER WE GAVE THEM THE CASE
NUMBER LUCKILY FOR TRANSPARENCY
SAKE, IT WAS INCLUDED IN WALK
LEADERS DISCIPLINE FILE
IN STATES THAT IN LATE APRIL A
TEENAGE GIRL IN HIS CARE WAS
FOUND INSIDE HIS BROTHER’S
HOUSE UNCONSCIOUS IN LANE IN
HER OWN VOMIT. SHE HAD TO
BE HOSPITALIZED. AND WHILE LA
CLEAR REFUSED TO COME OUT AND
TALK TO OFFICERS WHO RESPONDED
TO THE HOME. HE LATER ADMITTED
TO HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HE HAD
GIVEN THE GIRL ALCOHOL, A CLASS
A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE. 4 MONTHS
AFTER THE INCIDENT. LA CLEAR
HAS NOT BEEN
CRIMINALLY CHARGED. FOR THE
DEFENDERS DILLON COLLIER KSAT
12 NEWS.
>> AND LUCKILY, OR DID NOT
ANSWER THE DOOR DOES RESIDENTS
BUT LATER SENT AN E-MAIL IN
CORRECTLY GUESSING HOW THE
DEFENDERS FOUND OUT ABOUT THE
INCIDENT. PUGH MEANWHILE DID