A 21-year-old Harris County Sheriff’s Office detention officer is facing a misdemeanor DWI charge after authorities say he crashed into a homeowner’s fence in the Humble area early Sunday and fled. Deputies later followed a trail of liquid to a nearby home. Gerardo Segundo has worked for the sheriff’s office for three years and has now been placed on administrative leave while his case moves through court.
The crash jolted homeowner Alfonso Pineda and his family awake at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, according to ABC13 Houston. Pineda, who says he lives near Segundo, described the moments leading up to the impact in vivid detail: “It was getting really close, really loud. When the tire kept spinning, like 30 seconds later we heard boom, the biggest boom we could have heard.”
By the time Pineda made it outside, the driver was already gone — but the pickup truck had left behind a telling piece of evidence. A bumper remained at the scene, while deputies followed a trail of liquid to a home a few streets away. In Pineda’s words, the driver likely “thought he could get away.”
Liquid Trail Leads Deputies to a Damaged Pickup
According to court records cited by the station’s report, deputies with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office followed a trail of liquid from the crash site to a nearby home, where they found a damaged pickup truck. Investigators then brought that pickup back to the crash scene to match its parts against the debris left behind, the same court records state…