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Police arrested a Department of Public Safety trooper on a misdemeanor charge of assault/family violence Monday night.
DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange identified the trooper as Ephraim Montemayor. She said he is 30 years old and has been a DPS trooper since 2000.
Montemayor has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an internal investigation, she said from the Austin DPS headquarters.
Montemayor was not in uniform when he was arrested, Mange said, but she would not say that he was off duty at the time.
Because HPD was in the process of moving into the new station, the records computers were not operating all day, Osborne said.
Jail lists and incident logs were unavailable all day Tuesday, Sergeant John Parrish said.
Osborne said that he did not know the time or circumstances of the trooper's arrest and that the information will be available today when the station opens.
The trooper, Osborne said, has been released on bond but he did not know the amount.
HPD responded to the incident from a 9-1-1 call, Osborne said, but could not release the caller's name.
Osborne said that it is customary to segregate any law enforcement officer taken into custody from other prisoners in the city jail, which was done in this case.
"Anytime a law enforcement officer is taken into custody, we would definitely be concerned about him showing up in uniform in a jail section with other prisoners," Osborne said. "There is always a call to worry about the safety of all prisoners. It wouldn't be just for police officers."
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