2 San Antonio police officers arrested on drunken driving charges hours apart One of the officers, who crashed into another vehicle, had three children in her car and an official at the scene "could smell intoxicants" on her breath.

Gena Belinda Rodriguez Gena Belinda Rodriguez Photo: Courtesy Bexar County Photo: Courtesy Bexar County Image 1 of / 96 Caption Close 2 San Antonio police officers arrested on drunken driving charges hours apart 1 / 96 Back to Gallery

Two San Antonio police officers were arrested on drunken driving charges in a span of less than four hours Thursday night and Friday morning.

Gena Rodriguez, an 11-year veteran assigned to West Patrol, and Harold Thomaston, a 20-year veteran assigned to Central Patrol, were the two officers arrested.

Rodriguez faces a charge of drunken driving with a child under the age of 15 in the car, a state felony. She remains in the Bexar County Jail on an $8,000 bond. Thomaston faces a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and remains in the Bexar County Jail on a $1,200 bond.

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"DWI is so preventable; I'm disappointed that these two officers would put public lives at risk by getting behind the wheel after consuming too much alcohol," said San Antonio Police Chief William McManus in a written statement. "Both have been placed on administrative leave pending a full internal and criminal investigation."

According to police, Rodriguez rear-ended a 2011 Ford F150 around 10:16 p.m. near Loop 1604 and Culebra Road. Three children were in her car at the time of the accident.

Emergency responders arrived to the scene, but Rodriguez refused to allow them to treat her children, despite one of the children having a bump on his left arm that he said was caused by the accident.

"The officer could smell intoxicants on Rodriguez's breath," a statement from the department says. "He also observed that her speech was slurred and that she was unsteady on her feet."

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A DWI officer evaluated Rodriguez. He suspected she was drunk at the time of the accident and placed her under arrest.

Later, around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, Thomaston was stopped by an officer near Wurzbach Road and Fernglen Drive after he allegedly "began to crowd the on duty officer's lane and ran a red light in front of the on duty officer," the statement says.

The officer pulled him over, and Thomaston "was found to have been drinking." He was booked into jail on a drunken driving charge.

Rodriguez and Thomaston were not the only law enforcement officers booked on drunken driving charges overnight.

Sabrina Moreno, a 24-year-old Bexar County Sheriff's Office deputy, was arrested for drunken driving around 2:20 a.m. near Interstate 10 and USAA Boulevard, less than a mile away from the location where Thomaston was arrested.

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