Former HPD officer Gerald Goines gets 5-year federal sentence in Harding Street raid: FBI Houston

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Former Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after being convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law, according to FBI Houston.

Goines, who is already serving a 60-year state prison sentence for his role in the 2019 Harding Street raid, received credit for time already served. That means he will only serve an additional 35 months for the federal sentence.

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Over six years ago, on Jan. 28, 2019, a fake 911 call resulted in a no-knock warrant from HPD's narcotics squad at the home of husband and wife Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. The Harding Street raid left Tuttle, Nicholas, and their dog dead from a rain of police gunfire in their own southeast Houston home.

Authorities said that Goines admitted that he made "materially false statements" to obtain a search warrant that led to the raid, which resulted in the deaths, along with four HPD officers being injured.

In a statement, the U.S. Attorney's Office said that Goines obtained a warrant by falsely claiming a confidential informant had purchased heroin from one of the home's residents and provided it to him. Goines later admitted he knew the information was false, officials said.

Authorities said that Goines made other false statements in the affidavit, including claims that other people had purchased drugs from the residents in the weeks leading up to the warrant.

Former HPD officers Steven O. Bryant and Patricia Ann Garcia also previously pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and providing false information, respectively, officials said.

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