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| San Antonio Police Officer Winder Morales |
Winder Morales, a San Antonio police officer, was given a sentence of 3-days in jail as a condition of probation.
Morales ended up on the wrong side of the law, after flipping his cruiser while driving home drunk from a barbecue. A jury convicted the 34-year old police officer in April. He was originally facing up to six months behind bars for the Class B misdemeanor DWI charge.
Morales resigned from the department in January 2010, two months after the early morning wreck. He refused breath and blood tests at the scene but was found to have a blood alcohol level of .08 after a warrant was obtained to take his blood 5½ hours later.
The Prosecutor argued during the brief hearing Wednesday that Morales doesn't deserve probation because he violated a position of trust and put the public's safety at risk.
“We have a law enforcement officer in a taxpayer-paid-for vehicle,” Ybarra said. “He crashed that vehicle after a night of drinking, then throughout the investigation he lied about it.”
This latest incident follows an earlier wreck in which Morales was responding to a call in a police cruiser and ran a red light, killing Cibolo resident Rodney Brandenberger. A grand jury declined to indict him for that incident.
“One more time I think he beat the justice system,” Brandenberger's mother, Cindy Merrill, said of Wednesday's sentencing. She watched the proceedings with a representative from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
She predicted she will see Morales in court again.
“I have faith in him,” she said. “He is a reckless person.”
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