A San Antonio police Lt. Paul Mendoza has been suspended for 45 days without pay for being “completely wasted” and “stumbling” while carrying a firearm in the lobby of a downtown hotel, disciplinary records show.
Meanwhile, the San Antonio Police Department also suspended two other high-ranking officers without pay for failing to respond to a call from hotel staff to remove Mendoza, who was off duty at the time, according to city records.
Additionally, an SAPD detective was disciplined for failing to turn on his body camera as he picked up Mendoza from the hotel, his disciplinary documents state. The detective also failed to acknowledge Mendoza’s intoxication before driving him home and didn’t report the incident to a supervisor as required by department rules, according to the paperwork.
Early in the morning of Feb. 23, staff at downtown’s Wyndham Garden San Antonio Riverwalk/Museum Reach hotel called SAPD after a bar employee dropped Mendoza off in the lobby, police disciplinary documents state.