>> HE HIT AND KILLED A WOMAN WHILE DRIVING WITH AN OPEN ALCOHOL CONTAINER LAST YEAR BUT
RETURNED TO DUTY WITH SAN
MARCUS POLICE WITHOUT BEING
INDICTED OR EVEN SUSPENDED.
RECORDS OBTAINED BY THE 9
TEAM’S DILLON COLLIER SHOW
SERGEANT RYAN HARTMAN IS NOW AT
THE CENTER OF
ANOTHER CONTROVERSY AFTER USING
A STUN GUN ON A MAN WHO HAD HIS
ARMS RAISED AND WAS COMPLYING
WITH HIS COMMANDS. IT’S
TONIGHT’S DEFENDERS REPORT.
>> WHEN WE FIRST INTRODUCED
YOU LATE LAST MONTH TO SAN
MARCUS POLICE SERGEANT
RYAN HARTMAN HE SHOWN BEING
HANDCUFFED AT THE SCENE OF A
FATAL CRASH HE CAUSED WHILE
DRIVING DISTRACTED IN JUNE
2020. HARTMAN LATER ADMITTED A
PARTIALLY FOR THE BEER CAN
FOUND AMONG THE WRECKAGE OF THE
TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING
WAS HIS HOWEVER AFTER BLOOD
TESTS FOUND NO ALCOHOL AND
HARTMAN SYSTEM. HE WAS NO BUILD
BY A CALDWELL COUNTY GRAND JURY
LAST FALL AND RETURN TO WORK
ONE MONTH LATER,
THE ADMINISTRATION FOR SAN
MARCUS POLICE ADMITTING THEY
FAILED TO INVESTIGATE HARTMAN
INTERNALLY AND AFTER HE WASN’T
INDICTED, HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO
PUT HIM BACK TO WORK.
>> IT’S A REPUBLICAN I THOUGHT
YOU WERE ON.
>> WHAT YOU’RE RECORDS OF PAIN
BY A SHOW JUST 6 WEEKS AFTER
HARTMAN PUT HIS BADGE AND
UNIFORM BACK ON
HIS ACTIONS FINALLY WERE
SCRUTINIZED BY HIS OWN
DEPARTMENT AFTER A FELLOW
OFFICER WAS CALLED TO THIS
CONVENIENCE STORE ALONG
INTERSTATE 35 FOR A THEFT
JANUARY 12. HE SAW THE REPORTED
OFFENDERS FLEEING THE SCENE IN
A CAR DRIVING QUOTE VERY
ERRATIC AND FILLED WITH
MULTIPLE PEOPLE. THE VEHICLE
STOPPED ABOUT 3 MILES AWAY.
INTER HARTMAN WHO RESPONDED
FROM A NEARBY CALL.
WHILE THE DRIVER WAS DESCRIBED
AS VERBALLY AND PHYSICALLY
NON COMPLIANT. A BACKSEAT
PASSENGER 23 YEAR-OLD ALBION
LEYVA GOT OUT OF THE CAR IN WAS
COMPLIANT RECORDS CONFIRM
IT’S HARTMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS
GAVE
HIM ORDERS.
>> INTERNAL SAN MARCUS POLICE
RECORDS INDICATE THAT LABOR HAD
HIS HANDS ABOVE HIS HEAD HIS
PHONE IN ONE HAND, HIS ID IN
THE OTHER AND THAT HARTMAN USED
HIS STUN GUN ON HIM A SPLIT
SECOND AFTER GIVING HIM A
COMMAND NOT GIVING LLEVA ENOUGH
TIME TO
EVEN COMPLY.
>> A SECOND OFFICER USED HIS
STUN GUN ON LLEVA SHORTLY AFTER
HARTMAN TO
QUESTION BY INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN
MAY ABOUT
THE INCIDENT HARTMAN ANSWERED,
YES AND NO WHEN ASKED IF HE HAD
USED THE FLAWED TACTICS.
>> IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU
WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE DONE
DIFFERENT ISSUE.
>> HE THEN OFFERED AN EXCUSE
FOR USING HIS STUN GUN ON A MAN
WHO HAD HIS HANDS UP THE
TEMPORARY LOSS OF HEARING.
♪
>> THINKING ABOUT NOW MAYBE
ALL THE TORIES SOLUTION UNDER
STRESS AND LOSE.
♪
HEARING THE DRIVER STIFF ARMS.
CONTINUED AGGRESSIVE STATEMENTS AND CUSS WORDS I THINK IT’S ABSURD TO TO MAKE STATEMENTS
LIKE THAT KEVIN LA CHAPELLE A
FORMER OFFICER WHO IS NOW A
POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY EXPERT.
>> ISN’T BUYING IT.
BOTTOM LINE IS TO BE A POLICE
OFFICER REQUIRE SOMEONE TO HAVE
VERY STRONG SITUATIONAL
AWARENESS.
>> AND SOMEONE THEY ACT UNDER
PRESSURE.
IF WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT
ABLE TO DO THAT AND THEY
PROBABLY SHOULD NOT BE IN LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND EVEN THOUGH
HARTMAN CONFIRMED WATCHING BODY
CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE INCIDENT
WHILE RIDING
HIS REPORT.
>> IT ENDED UP NOT BEING
CONSISTENT WITH WHAT HAD
ACTUALLY TAKEN PLACE
IN JULY DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
SUSPENDED HARTMAN FOR ONE WEEK
AND ORDERED HIM TO GO
THROUGH RETRAINING. BUT WERE
NICE ENOUGH TO LET HIM FORFEIT
PAID TIME OFF INSTEAD OF
ACTUALLY
SERVING IT CONFIRMATION OF
HARTMAN SUSPENSION COMES AS THE
FALLOUT FROM THE FATAL CRASH HE
CAUSED CONTINUES
TO MOUNT IN THE SAN MARCUS
POLICE OFFICIALS HAVE ONCE
AGAIN CHANGED THEIR STORY.
THEIR MOST RECENT CLAIM IS THAT
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HANDLING
THE CASE DIDN’T OFFICIALLY
CONFIRMED THE KNOW BILL UNTIL
DECEMBER 7TH OF LAST YEAR.
THE BASTROP COUNTY
D A THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WHO
PRESENTED THE EVIDENCE TO THE
GRAND JURY CALLED THAT FALSE
TELLING US IN AN INTERVIEW HE
SPOKE TO SAN MARCUS POLICE
ADMINISTRATION. AND HARTMAN IS
CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY
SHORTLY AFTER THE KNOW BILL WAS
HANDED DOWN NOVEMBER 1ST
APARTMENTS ATTORNEY CONFIRMS
RECEIVING THAT CALL
ADDITIONALLY THE NO BILL IS
LISTED ON LITERALLY THE FIRST
PAGE OF THE BASTROP DA’S PUBLIC
FILE ON THE HARTMAN CASE FOR
THE DEFENDERS DILLON COLLIER
KSAT 12 NEWS.
>> LEYVA WAS CHARGED BY
SAN MARCUS POLICE WITH
INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC DUTIES
NEARLY 9 MONTHS LATER THOUGH
THE HAYS COUNTY DA HAS NOT
MOVED FORWARD WITH FILING THAT
CHARGE ALL 3 CHARGES AGAINST
THE DRIVER REMAIN IN PRE FILE
STATUS
AS WELL, SAN MARCUS POLICE
CHIEF STAN STANDRIDGE TOLD THE