A married 911 dispatcher could be sacked along with seven other male police colleagues after she was caught by her husband sexting all of them and having two affairs, it is claimed.
The scandal that unfolded at the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in San Antonio, Texas, emerged when two spouses of those involved exposed the candid text messages.
Krystle Perez, 38, the dispatcher, has been placed on unpaid administrative leave, along with Bexar County Sheriff Sgt. Renaldo Salinas and deputy Juan Leal. Deputy Jason Jarvis faces a proposed 30-day termination.
Perez, Salinas and Leal have all been warned they are likely to lose their jobs, but deny misbehaving while on-duty.
Message suggest Salinas and Perez met up for sex and Deputy Jarvis's wife told reporters he admitted an affair to her. She is now divorcing him.
The texts, some of which are very sexual and too explicit to publish, suggest that some employees engaged in inappropriate behaviour while on duty. The messages were leaked to the department by Perez's jilted husband and many detail Perez's encounters with two of the officers.
They contained emojis to reference body parts, and reference to kissing, making out, and "sexual connections", end Perez's husband Giancarlo Perez, 41, said.
In one of them, Sergeant Salinas said to dispatcher Perez: "I feel so Hot and Sexy when I'm ** you."
To which Perez replied: "I can feel it all of it and I love it"
Salinas also said: "We need another hotel day".
In messages with Deputy Leal, which are also graphic but don't reference any sexual encounters, as he says to dispatcher Perez: "I can't wait for us to be naked and us caressing each other and then kissing each other all over."
Perez says: "[Expletive] yes!"
In another, Perez writes: "And then I can lay on you and kiss you all over", calling the deputy "daddy" - to which Leal cheekily replies "Like 'ALL OVER'?"
In one message thread sent at 10.20pm on a Friday night, Salinas and Perez seem to plan a sexual encounter.
He writes: "I get off at midnight, came in early."
Salinas writes in another: "I miss your lips" and the overnight dispatcher replies "my lips miss you".
Perez, in another message, describes herself being "rolled up in bed like a burrito". And the sergeant replied "mmm".
In another, she says she was going to "hunt down" the. Salinas says they will "figure something out."
An investigation into the matter is ongoing, and while it does not appear that anyone broke the law, those involved violated Bexar County Sheriff's Office policies.
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office kicked off an investigation into the matter after Giancarlo, and another spouse of those involved gave screenshots of the texts from his wife's phone to internal affairs and to the press.
Investigator Jason Jarvis received a proposed suspension of 30 days, and his wife Jessica Jarvis filed for divorce, alleging that he also had an affair with the dispatcher.
Devastated, the dispatcher's husband Giancarlo Perez told News 4 San Antonio: "She was the love of my life and it was very distraught, heartbreaking, I was in disbelief."
Jessica Jarvis, the deputy's wife, also said: "These are people that are supposed to be protecting us, serving and making sure the community is safe and instead they're busy setting up affairs they're busy setting up appointments to basically have sexual relations."
She added that the deputy admitted to her that he had had the affair.
Commenting on the incident, Bexar County Sheriff, Javier Salazar, said: "Certainly, the case is being taken seriously and quite frankly, I believe it's quite possible some people are going to lose their career as a result of this."
The scandal comes after another disgrace struck a small police department in the town of La Vergne in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
An investigation revealed that several officers there were engaging in sexual acts - even while on duty and at the police station.
In January, it emerged that female officer Maegan Hall was having intimate relationships with six other male officers of the department.
