they don't want to damaging that is the
voice of San Antonio Police Department
captain
Timothy Vaughn the head of internal
affairs admitting in a recorded phone
call this May that Department command
staff was going to cover up an on-duty
sex scandal involving a commander and a
female officer records showed that
decision was made long before internal
affairs investigator Sergeant Jim Jones
could even complete the case Jones
retired and has now come forward to our
Dillon Collier providing his
investigative file and taped phone calls
with his superiors even while facing the
threat of prosecution it's tonight's
defenders report I've had a charmed
career the city and the department's
been good to me I'm a disappointed
employee there's no doubt about that
disgruntled know many members of his
former department probably don't agree
with how sergeant Jim Jones ended his
35-year SAPD career retiring early
contacting a reporter exposing an
on-duty sex investigation involving a
captain and the efforts made by powerful
people
to keep any of it from seeing the light
of day Jones climbed the blue wall of
silence I don't know how you can espouse
truth and trust and transparency with
the community one day and then
perpetrate a cover-up the next in April
Jones was told to investigate captain
Alex de la Garza and a female officer
the pair accused of repeatedly meeting
for sexual encounters inside a city
building while on the clock
rule-breaking the female later admitted
to it was also discovered by Jones that
a third officer lieutenant Brent Bell
took steps to allow the two officers to
communicate even after a no-contact
order was given sir will you answer any
any verbal interrogatories or questions
regarding this investigation de la Garza
clammed up while questioned by Jones in
late May and
tired while the case was still fresh
hours after the interview with de la
Garza took place Jones got a call at
home from internal affairs commander
Timothy just left a meeting at police
headquarters that included Chief William
McManus his chief of staff
Robert Blanton Circle I think they don't
want this down to down to damages so
bonds comments directly contradicting
his own chief last week in a statement
told us quote keeping it out of the
public view was not the basis for my
decision if there's no discipline laid
out and they transfer her may 29th a
second internal affairs supervisor
lieutenant Michael Mosley expressed
dismay over the handling of the case
during another call recorded by Jones
they're going to either not issue any
discipline and palm print they'll just
double yours so that no Bailey so that
nobody didn't get a copy of the case
okay they're trying to cover this up two
months later just as Vaughn said it
would the case was closed with no
suspensions handed out meaning no public
record of it requests for the files from
the public or media would be denied the
men and women of SAPD they go out there
every day and every night and they're
doing a hard job but they do it
exceptionally well and they know that if
they violate the rules and regs or our
policies and procedures that they can be
held accountable or they will be held
accountable unless it damages or
denigrates the department or tarnishes
or humiliates the chief we've made
multiple attempts to talk with chief
McManus about this story and that offer
still stands we are continuing to
investigate how far up this went and who
is in that may 25th meeting it should be
noted Vaughn's call to Jones happened
hours after we reported the officers
involved in s APD's last sex scandal
would not be getting their jobs back for
the defenders still in Collier case at
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