One of the newly-promoted Houston police assistant chiefs is under investigation after property valued at $25,000 went missing from a police substation.
Adrian Rodriguez was promoted in April following the demotions from HPD’s suspended case scandal. He was last assigned as the commander at the Kingwood substation on Rustic Woods Drive.
Last November, the security gates in the back parking lot were taken down and replaced by sleek new ones. The old gates were left in a grassy area for months. Then, over the weekend of March 23rd, sources tell ABC13 they disappeared.
ABC13 obtained part of the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) report that states Rodriguez asked a liaison with the City of Houston General Services Department if he could take the property because “he wanted to put them in his ditch at home.”
ABC13 requested surveillance video from HPD from the weekend the gates were taken. The request was denied and referred to the Texas Attorney General’s Office for a decision.
In the referral letter, the department confirmed “an open investigation being conducted by the HPD’s Internal Affairs Division of alleged improper police procedure by a police officer.”