Bexar County deputies stop inmate with falsified release documents

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) – A Bexar County inmate with falsified release documents has been stopped in his tracks, said Sheriff Javier Salazar.

Twenty-three-year-old Marco Alvarez was being relocated from one unit to another around 2:30 Thursday morning when he made his way to the booking area with falsified documents indicating his release. Booking deputies discovered that Alvarez was not scheduled to be released and he never got out of  the secured area of the Adult Detention Center.

“It was an ID card that’s issued to inmates. He altered it in some way to look as though he was going to be released,” Salazar told KTSA News.

Alvarez was booked in September on several charges, including retaliation and two counts of assault causing bodily injury against a security officer.  Now he’s also charged with forgery of a government instrument, which is a second degree felony.

Salazar says they recently increased training and command staff in the booking area.

“We’ve been teaching them to take a better look at all paper work and to scrutinize it–not just scan it, but scrutinize it,” Salazar said.