SAPD Officer Devin Day Indefinitely Suspended After Woman Told Detectives He Paid Her $300 for Sex Knowing She Was Being Trafficked, Records Show

The San Antonio Police Department has indefinitely suspended Officer Devin J. Day after a woman told detectives that Day paid her $300 for sex in 2021 and that he already knew she was being trafficked, according to SAPD disciplinary records. Acting Police Chief Jesse Salame signed the indefinite suspension order on August 4, 2026, and Day was removed from paid duty immediately, the records show.

The allegation surfaced during a sex trafficking investigation, according to the disciplinary order. On March 5, 2026, SAPD Special Victims Unit detectives interviewed a woman — described in the records as 26 years old at the time of the interview, with her name redacted from the released record — as part of an ongoing sex trafficking case, the order states.

The woman told detectives that on April 4, 2021, Day, who was off duty, picked her up in his personal vehicle and drove to a secluded area in Schertz, where they had sex in the vehicle, according to the disciplinary order. She said Day paid her $300 through a cash application transaction that day in exchange for sex, the order states.

In a second Special Victims Unit interview on March 11, 2026, detectives were told that Day already knew the woman was selling sex and was being trafficked by men for profit, according to the disciplinary order. The order says that information caused Day to be "listed as a suspect in a criminal case."

Salame signed the indefinite suspension order on August 4, 2026, directing that Day be removed from paid duty immediately, and Day signed an acknowledgment of receipt that same day, according to the order. SAPD found that Day's conduct violated the department's conduct and behavior rule, which applies to officers both on and off duty. The order concluded: "Officer Day's actions render his continuance in office detrimental to effective law enforcement and the needs of the San Antonio Police Department."

Day has appealed the suspension. His appeal letter was received on August 7, 2026, according to the agenda for the Fire Fighters' and Police Officers' Civil Service Commission meeting of September 14, 2026. The notice Day signed allowed him to seek review by the commission or by an independent hearing examiner or arbitrator, according to the agenda record.

The records reviewed for this story do not include Day's account of the allegations, and they do not state that Day has been criminally charged. The disciplinary order describes him as listed as a suspect in a criminal case; a suspect listing is not a charge, and the allegations in the department's order have not been adjudicated in court.

Day was previously a defendant in a separate federal civil rights lawsuit, according to court records. On August 25, 2020, Mathias Ometu, a Black insurance adjuster who was jogging near Woodstone and IH-10, was mistaken for a domestic violence suspect and detained by Day, identified in the court record by badge #0490, and Officer Richard Serna, badge #1466, court records show. The Bexar County District Attorney later dropped the charges that had been filed against Ometu.

In that civil case, U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia granted summary judgment for the officers and the City of San Antonio on February 1, 2024, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed that judgment on July 15, 2025, finding reasonable suspicion for the initial stop and upholding qualified immunity for the officers, court records show. That lawsuit concerned the 2020 encounter and is separate from the 2026 disciplinary case.

Day's indefinite suspension remains in effect while his appeal is pending, according to the records. T.W.A. News will report the outcome of the appeal and any further action in the criminal case the order references as those records become public.