SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio man hired as a detention officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office only to have his job offer pulled days before starting the academy will be paid $300,000 as part of a settlement approved by county commissioners.
Luis Borges claimed in federal court filings that BCSO Sheriff Javier Salazar personally pulled the 2024 employment offer after deputies found an altar to La Santa Muerte belonging to Borges’ wife during a home inspection.
After Borges went through the application process, including passing a background check and completing a polygraph examination, he was informed that summer by a BCSO recruiting deputy that he had been hired and would begin the training academy in two weeks and was even encouraged to put in his two weeks’ notice at work…