SAN ANTONIO — A case against an former Bexar County deputy has been dismissed after he died while waiting for his trial to begin.
Floyd Berry was set to go on trial soon, having been arrested and accused in 2019 of conducting illegal strip-searches, according to personnel records.
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He was accused of conducting the searches on at least six women who came forward in 2019. At the time, Sheriff Javier Salazar said there could have been more victims.
Authorities at the time said Berry would pull women over at the Shell gas station at 1604 and Highway 281 and take them into custody before then driving down the road, pulling over and instructing the women to expose themselves.
Back in 2010, he was suspended for asking a female deputy to film him strip searching a male inmate.
According to the suspension in 2010, Berry was questioned by a lieutenant nearly a week after the incident. During questioning, Berry told the lieutenant he "didn't believe there was anything wrong with having a female present during the strip search of a male," the suspension states.
According to the documents, Berry told the lieutenant he and the deputy "stood in front of the inmate blocking the (female deputy's) view of the inmate's genitals."
The female deputy initially wrote in her report that, per Berry's instruction, the inmate was filmed during the strip search from the shoulders up. Berry, the records note, allegedly told the female deputy to remove any mention of the incident in her report because he would document the incident himself. Berry, however, never included that the inmate was recorded, let alone strip-searched, the suspension documents state.
The case was dismissed on Tuesday due to Berry passing away. The cause for his death hasn't determined.