JOE GONZALES

'I feel less safe in my own neighborhood than I did 10 years ago,' Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said.

Social media users blamed cite-and-release, but SAPD says a manufacturers' flaw makes that particular vehicle a snap to steal.

An investigator with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office resigned this month amid allegations that he repeatedly kissed an intern and made unwanted advances toward her, personnel paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.

A Bexar County grand jury declined to indict police officer Stephen Ramos, who shot and killed Andre "AJ" Hernandez last year.

A Bexar County grand jury decided not to indict a San Antonio police officer that shot and killed 13-year-ol AJ Hernandez in June 2022.

A Bexar County grand jury has no-billed a San Antonio police officer who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy on June 3, 2022.

A pandemic, backlog and retaining staff have been some of the problems that District Attorney Joe Gonzales had to face in his first term.

High-profile trials scheduled for 2023 are faced with uncertainty as the district attorney’s office has recently lost many attorneys.

The update on Cantu's condition comes days after former SAPD officer James Brennand was indicted by a grand jury for attempted murder.

Officer James Brennand was fired after he shot 17-year-old Erik Cantu, who was eating a burger in his car at a McDonald's parking lot.

17-year-old Erik Cantu was released from the hospital last week, nearly two months after the shooting.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A former San Antonio police officer who shot a 17-year-old as the teen put his car in reverse while eating a hamburger has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of aggravated [San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Ex-SAPD officer James Brennand was indicted on two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant and one count of attempted murder.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said Thursday that a grand jury has indicted the former officer who shot Erik Cantu in October.

A Bexar County grand jury has indicted a former San Antonio police officer accused of shooting a teenager in a McDonald’s parking lot in early October, District Attorney Joe Gonzales said.

District Attorney Joe Gonzales told reporters that his office will seek the maximum punishment against the former officer.

The Bexar County Commissioners Court passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at limiting local enforcement of the state’s anti-abortion laws.

A 46-year-old man from San Antonio was sentenced Monday to life in prison for child sex crimes, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

San Antonio police will be filing an additional charge of Driving While Intoxicated against District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry following an investigation into a hit-and-run accident Sunday.

Republicans won all statewide races, including for Texas governor, while Democrats performed well in Bexar County

Gonzales said his number one priority is curbing domestic violence. He also wants to continue progressive policies such as cite and release.

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County judge candidate Trish DeBerry's fundraising dwindled last month while money poured in for the DA race between Joe Gonzales and Marc LaHood.

Both Bexar County DA candidates are complaining to local TV stations and social media platforms about attack ads targeting them.

Marc LaHood is challenging incumbent Joe Gonzales in the Nov. 8 election

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A year after William Hawkins, 35, was shot in a downtown gas station parking lot near McCullough Avenue and U.S. 281, his family is frustrated by what they see as a lack of justice. The Oct. 14, 2021 shooting happened in broad daylight, and was captured on camera, but the shooter is not currently facing any charges.

The teenager shot by a San Antonio police officer on Oct. 2 is making some progress, according to his father.

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San Antonio teen Erik Cantu remains on life support after being show by fired SAPD officer James Brennand.

A protest at SAPD headquarters calling for former officer James Brennand's arrest is slated for Tuesday evening.

DA Joe Gonzales says his staff is waiting on case files to decide whether to pursue charges against the former officer.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales held a press conference to discuss the rejection of criminal charges against a teen who was shot and injured by a now-former SAPD officer.

The charges filed against a teenager who was shot by a now former-SAPD officer have been dismissed, according to Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales.

Marc LaHood is challenging incumbent Joe Gonzales in the Nov. 8 election

A San Antonio man was sentenced to eight years in prison for sending sexually explicit messages to an undercover police officer he thought was a teenage girl.

The Republican Texas House Speaker is pushing his own criminal justice reforms while targeting policies like Joe Gonzales' cite-and-release.

Current Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales and his Republican opponent Marc LaHood are speaking out against the court decision that will allow people under felony indictment to purchase guns.

DA Joe Gonzales flirted with the idea of flouting Texas law while Marc LaHood said he'd enforce all laws no matter how he feels about them.

A San Antonio man has been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats against St. Mary's Hall and Central Catholic High School.

The San Antonio Report's town hall-style debate will be held Wednesday at San Antonio College’s 1,000-seat McAllister Fine Arts Center, as well as live-streamed.

What questions do you have for Bexar County DA candidates Joe Gonzales and Republican Marc LaHood? Submit them here.

Sentencing continues Tuesday for Michelle Barrientes Vela less than two weeks after a jury convicted her on two felony charges of tampering with government records..

While the governor's race is being fought elsewhere, Republicans and Democrats still have reason to be excited about their opportunities here.

City leaders are pushing for “baby boxes”. Although similar to the Safe Haven or Baby Moses Law, this proposal would allow parents in crisis to give up their child anonymously.

A pair of cousins accused in the 2018 shooting deaths of a teenager and an elderly man were each sentenced to more than two decades in prison Friday.

Surveillance video shows someone on a motorcycle firing at the Bexar County Democratic Party headquarters early Tuesday morning.

Tuesday's attack comes as election officials and political organizers face harassment and threats.

A large glass window of the Bexar County Democratic Party headquarters was shattered by gunfire overnight.

The former Bexar County Precinct 2 constable, who stepped down in late 2019 after triggering the state’s resign-to-run law, faces two felony counts of tampering with evidence.

The debate will be held Sept. 21 in the 1,000-seat McAllister Fine Arts Center at San Antonio College and will be free and open to the public.

A jury sentenced a San Antonio man to 46 years in prison on Friday for touching an 8-year-old girl inappropriately in 2016.

A San Antonio man was sentenced to eight years in prison for 60 counts of possession of child pornography.

The proposed resolution would make a policy recommendation to not use city funds -- outside of what is “clearly required” by state and federal law -- to catalog, collect, or share with other government agencies information on instances of abortion strictly to pursue criminal investigations.

Five San Antonio City Council members and the mayor stood in support of a largely symbolic measure that would attempt to "decriminalize" abortion locally.

Republican Marc LaHood more than doubled Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales's fundraising haul in the first half of 2022, but the incumbent has roughly six times the cash on hand.

SAPD has identified the officer who shot and killed John Pena Montez as Stephen Ramos — the same officer who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in early June, just three months after Montez was shot.

Former NFL player Narond “Roc” Alexander is accused of submitting claims for more than $25,000 in medical treatments that he never received, according to the Texas Department of Insurance.

'My job is chasing predators, rapists and human traffickers, not someone exercising a right,' he said.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar took to social media to blast the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Texas's "trigger law" bans abortions after 30 days, but an advisory from the Attorney General prompted clinics to stop providing abortions Friday.

Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez said he is "disappointed" but "not suprised" by the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales along with local reproductive rights groups will hold a press conference Friday to discuss the recently released Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

San Antonio residents in District 8 and District 9 are worried about the rising crime trends and the nature of crimes they're now seeing in their communities.

A Bexar County jury on Wednesday sentenced a man to two 40-year prison sentences for sexually assaulting a young girl.

A recent initiative by Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales to curb gun violence is not one that judges can easily rule on.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales says his office plans to start destroying weapons seized in cases they've successfully prosecuted.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff says a special session needs to be called now.

The DA will begin destroying guns used in crimes and prioritize charges against people who have gear to convert firearms into automatic weapons.

Bexar County leaders on Friday held a press conference to demand action on gun violence following the mass shooting in Uvalde at Robb Elementary that killed 19 students and two teachers.

The Uvalde Strong Survivors Fund will provide long-term financial assistance to survivors and the Uvalde Strong Fund will support area nonprofits assisting them.

On Tuesday, a San Antonio family faced the man who killed their sister over a cellphone in December 2020.

A jury on Friday sentenced a woman convicted of hiring an undercover officer to kill her boyfriend’s sister to 20 years in prison.

The District Attorney was in attendance as well.

The Democrat made the assurance on Facebook and during an appearance at a protest on Tuesday.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales weighed in after the leak of the United States Supreme Court’s draft ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and assured the public he would continue to fight for women’s reproductive rights.

A San Antonio man was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for the brutal attack of his former girlfriend with a metal baseball bat in 2019, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

A rally at the Bexar County Courthouse Saturday morning was for National Crime Victims Rights Week. Families who have lost loved ones gathered for support, and to hear from law enforcement about what rights and services they're entitled to.

A 26-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to a murder charge in 2020 for her boyfriend’s death was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday.

A San Antonio man assaulted by a co-worker at the Dominguez State Jail in 2020 said the Bexar County District Attorney’s decision to dismiss the charge against his attacker went against his wishes as a victim.

Investigators with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force have located and extradited a man charged with murder to Bexar County, according to the DA’s office.

In his first public comments since being cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a man in Elmendorf in 2020, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Brandin Moran said Thursday his brief indictment for manslaughter had a significant emotional impact on him and his family.

The family of a man fatally shot by a Bexar County sheriff’s deputy said Monday they were disappointed to learn District Attorney Joe Gonzales dismissed a manslaughter charge against the deputy, just four days after he was indicted by a grand jury.

A Bexar County sheriff’s deputy who killed an Elemendorf man in 2020 is no longer facing criminal charges four days after he was indicted by a grand jury.

Abbott, O’Rourke victorious; Bexar Co. Judge Dems Sakai, Minjarez head to runoff; Cisneros, Cuellar too close to call

Former county district Judge Peter Sakai and state Rep. Ina Minjarez appeared set for a runoff election based on early voting results Tuesday.

Find the latest, updated election results for the 2022 primary election in Texas on March 1, 2022.

Nueces County DA Mark Gonzalez publicly condemned Texas Governor Greg Abbott's directive to investigate trans youth care as child abuse Wednesday.

"Politicians should stop inserting themselves into medical care decisions that are best left to doctors and patients," DA Joe Gonzales said.

She spent the funds on shopping sprees and a trip to Hawaii.

Gala G Saenz passed away on Friday, January 28 in San Marcos at the age of 86. Gala was born on June 6, 1935 in Fentress to John and Juanita Gonzalez.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] Obituary San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The criminal defense attorney is following in his brother's footsteps.

Damien Daniels, an Army veteran, was fatally shot last year by a Bexar County Sheriff's deputy during a mental health call.

After an appellate court upheld San Antonio and Bexar County's temporary ability to require masks, the Texas Supreme Court blocked it.

Gov. Abbott secured a legal win against Bexar County as the tug-of-war over mask mandates...

A Texas man elbowed a bailiff who was attempting to handcuff him after the man was convicted of killing a San Antonio police detective. Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against McKane, with the trial's punishment phase set to begin Tuesday afternoon. A bailiff was trying handcuff McKane when McKane elbowed him in the face before several officers pushed him into an adjacent room.