SAN ANTONIO – Citing insufficient evidence, the Bexar County District Attorney's Office said Friday that it will not charge seven detention officers accused of participating in the hazing of a fellow deputy at a house party last year.
The deputies, who were part of the agency's elite Special Emergency Response Team (SERT), were placed on leave after the incident in August.
BCSO's public information office confirmed that one of the deputies, Alyssa Aranda, returned to work last November then resigned less than a month later.
The agency has declined to release information related to the discipline of the other six deputies, stating only that all of them have returned to work and that discipline actions related to the incident have not been finalized since they are part of an on-going appeals process.
Sheriff Javier Salazar previously said that if the deputies were retained after internal affairs and criminal investigations were completed, they would no longer be part of SERT, which handles emergency situations inside the jail.
According to the sheriff's office, the deputies were accused of using county-issued shackles, handcuffs and a stun gun to haze a fellow deputy by tying him up and pretending to use the stun gun on him.
Video of the incident obtained by BCSO purportedly showed a child participating in the hazing.
The deputies were facing possible charges of child endangerment, unlawful restraint and hazing.