Dallas police replacing warrants against officer arrested on hitman-related capital murder charges
The officer had been under investigation since August 2019 when a witness told Dallas police investigators about the hitman offer.
Credit: Dallas County jail Published: 2:19 PM CDT April 6, 2021 Updated: 2:19 PM CDT April 6, 2021
DALLAS The Dallas Police Department walked two new capital warrants Monday to replace the warrants on former officer Bryan Riser.
Per the sheriff s office, the department obtained new warrants to replace the old warrants due to errors.
Riser was arrested at the beginning of March on two counts of capital murder and was accused of offering to pay a hitman to kill two people, Albert Douglas and Lisa Saenz. Douglas body has not yet been found.
Riser has the right to appeal his firing, the news release said.
Riser has been under investigation since August 2019 when a witness told Dallas police investigators that Riser allegedly offered him thousands of dollars and instructed him to kill two victims in 2017, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
When asked why Riser was left on duty and not placed on administrative leave, former Police Chief Renee Hall told WFAA that at the time the department didn t have enough evidence for an arrest. She also said wrote that putting him on leave “could have compromised the investigation.”
Hall left office at the end of 2020. Her successor, Garcia, has been on the job for about a month.