SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio police officer was suspended for three days in January after he was found lying on the sidewalk along Jones Maltsberger road one morning last summer, having admitted to drinking beforehand, according to department disciplinary records.
Officer Juan Pena, who has been with the department since January 2010, was found at around 2:45 a.m. by other SAPD officers who were patrolling the area on Aug. 22. They identified him as one of their own and “could smell a strong odor of intoxicants emitting” from him, records show.
He told the officers he had been drinking at the bar and thought he was “down the street” from his home when, in reality, he was about seven miles away, according to records. He was also slurring his words, something that was evident in the officers’ body camera recordings…