A disgraced San Antonio cop who was fired — twice — for allegedly giving a homeless man a sandwich stuffed with dog poop is now heading up a different police department in another Texas town.
Matthew Luckhurst was promoted to police chief in Benavides, about 150 miles south of San Antonio, three years after the department hired him despite the stink of his past, according to city records and reports.
He took over his new role on June 1 after city council members voted to appoint him as the area’s top cop during an April 30 meeting, the San Antonio Current reported.
Luckhurst will earn $28 an hour in the small city of about 1,100 people, council records show.
Benavides officials did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Luckhurst had his badge yanked in 2016 after a fellow cop alleged he put street feces on bread in a Styrofoam container and left it for a snoozing homeless man – who never ate the soiled sandwich.
The troubled cop maintained his innocence from the outset, insisting he gave the vagrant the poop-stuffed meal to throw away, not consume.
Bizarrely, that same year, Luckhurst – a five-year veteran at the time – was accused of defecating in a San Antonio Police Department women’s restroom and smearing a “brown substance” on a toilet seat, the outlet reported.
He reportedly never denied being behind the bathroom incident.
Luckhurst successfully appealed his firing in 2019 and briefly returned to the force before a judge upheld his dismissal in 2020. He was back in uniform by February 2022 in nearby Floresville, where he worked for 10 months before being canned when his rancid past resurfaced.
He was hired by then-Benavides Police Chief Andrew Hines in 2023, who said the appointment “reflects the department’s commitment to honesty and accountability.”
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