GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Records show that after a former FBI agent shot at Grand Rapids police officers in December 2016, his partner arrived at police headquarters drunk.
24 Hour News 8 poured through some 80 pages of documents from the Grand Rapids Police Department, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, that detail a timeline of the night Ruben Hernandez shot at officers. He and his partner, John Salazar, were in the area from the FBI’s Las Vegas office working on a case.
Among several findings, the documents detail Salazar showing up at GRPD headquarters once he learned Hernandez was arrested. Officers noticed he seemed drunk, confiscated his gun and gave him a portable breath test (PBT) which was .116.
Additionally, the rental car the two were using was processed outside the department. Documents show it was parked on Monroe Center NW but don’t specifically say Salazar drove himself there. After officers interviewed him, Salazar was then driven back to their hotel by a local FBI.
GRPD has surveillance cameras overlooking the Monroe Center entrance.
Target 8 has wanted to ask the police chief if officers reviewed footage when Salazar arrived to see if he drove himself, but so far the chief has not granted 24 Hour News 8 an interview.
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