A San Antonio police officer was fired over the summer after records show he paid a woman $300 for sex in 2021, despite knowing she was being trafficked by men profiting off her. The woman told detectives that Devin Day, who had served with the department for seven years, picked her up in his personal car, drove her to Schertz, and had sex with her there.
According to suspension records detailed by KSAT, Day had prior knowledge that the woman was a prostitute and was being trafficked by males for profit when he arranged to pay her. Day picked her up in his personal vehicle, drove her to Schertz, and had sex with her there.
The case resurfaced when Special Victims Unit detectives interviewed a 26-year-old woman in March as part of a human trafficking investigation, per the same records. During that interview, the woman told detectives that Day had paid her $300 for sex back in 2021. The records also list Day as a suspect in a criminal case.
Seven Years on the Force, Then an Indefinite Suspension
Day spent seven years as an officer before his firing. Per the report, he was fired over the summer after the suspension records detailing the 2021 incident came to light. The suspension order was signed August 4 and removed him from paid duty immediately.
This is not the first time a San Antonio officer has faced discipline tied to allegations involving women. A KSAT Investigates report from earlier this year detailed another San Antonio police officer who was indefinitely suspended after several women reported him for inappropriate behavior, underscoring that Day's case is not an isolated entry in the department's disciplinary record.
A Patchy Public Record of Police Discipline
Cases like Day's are tracked, in part, through the Texas Officer Suspensions Dashboard, a project built to increase public transparency about the conduct of officers at the San Antonio Police Department, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, and the San Marcos Police Department. The dashboard's operators, at copthedata.com, say they have collected SAPD suspension and arbitration documents spanning 2010 through 2024, along with BCSO records from 2014 through 2024 and SMPD records from 2020 through 2023. Even so, the dashboard cautions that its collection may be incomplete, noting there may be some suspensions not represented because of limits in the information it receives.
Day's case also lands amid a broader pattern of Texas law enforcement officers facing allegations tied to paid sex. In the Houston area, a Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constable identified as Davien Montgomery was arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution following an undercover operation in northeast Houston, according to ABC13. Court documents in that case allege Montgomery solicited oral sex from an undercover officer and agreed to pay $50, and the outlet reported that a magistrate found probable cause at his initial court appearance, with the charge still pending.
The evidence reviewed does not include a response from Day or his attorney, nor does it detail the full suspension record or any appeal that may follow. The identity of the woman involved and the ultimate outcome of the trafficking investigation that drew detectives back to the 2021 incident also remain unclear in the records made public so far.
