A Texas police officer has been fired for allegedly trying to feed a sandwich filled with fecal matter to a homeless man, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Officer Matthew Luckhurst was a five-year veteran of the San Antonio Police Department when the incident allegedly took place in May. Sources say that Luckhurts bragged to a fellow officer “he had picked up some feces, placed it in a slice of bread, and put it in a Styrofoam container next to the unknown homeless male.”

His lawyer however dismissed the claims as a joke gone wrong.

“It didn’t happen,” Ben Sifuentes, his lawyer said to the paper, citing no eyewitnesses, video recordings and that the homeless person never came forward to give a statement.

Department officials said that they haven’t been able to find the homeless man to question him about the incident.

Despite this, the chief of police and the mayor of the San Antonio have both been vocal about the seriousness of the allegations.

“This was a vile and disgusting act that violates our guiding principles of ‘treating all with integrity, compassion, fairness and respect,’" chief William McManus said in a statement. “The fact that his fellow officers were so disgusted with his actions that they reported him to Internal Affairs demonstrates that this type of behaviour will never be tolerated. The action of this one former officer in no way reflects the actions of all the other good men and women who respectfully serve this community.”

San Antonio’s mayor Ivy Taylor told the San Antonio Express-News that he thought firing the officer was the right thing to do.

“His actions were a betrayal of every value we have in our community, and he is not representative of our great police force,” he said.

Mysa.com says McManus alongside a citizen and police board have all agreed to an “indefinite suspension for the officer” who has been on downtown bike-patrol for the past year. Luckhurst plans to appeal.