Jan. 27 marks five years since the deadly raid that left a couple dead after Houston police attempted to serve a no-knock warrant at a home on Harding Street.
Former Houston police officer Steven Bryant pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of falsifying records that interfered with a government investigation.
Mon, Feb 1st 2021 8:06pm
Tim Cushing
We still haven t seen an end to the fallout resulting from a botched (and bogus) drug raid in Houston that ended with two residents killed by police officers. It also ended with five officers wounded one of them paralyzed. The raid was predicated on false statements made by Officer Gerald Goines, who secured permission from a judge to perform a no-knock raid, claiming the residents were armed and selling heroin.
While guns were recovered, no heroin was. Indeed, no evidence of drug dealing was recovered just personal amounts of marijuana and cocaine. The informant that supposedly made the heroin buy never existed and the supposed result of this controlled buy was actually heroin pulled from an officer s squad car. All of Goines lies led to two deaths and five injured officers. Goines is currently facing a slew of charges, including two counts of felony murder.