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baseballguy2001 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 9:11 pm This is just very strange, I can't find any stories about former officer Bryant being sentenced. I do find lots of them saying his sentencing would be held August 24, and the woman that made the false 911 calls being sentenced to 40 months. I also can't find any stories talking about a delay of Bryant being sentenced. I've even sent emails to reporters that have covered details of this awful story in the past, and I've had zero replies. What am I missing?

baseballguy2001 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:15 pm May I suggest we all keep our eyes and ears open tomorrow, the woman who placed a series of false 911 calls setting in motion the raid on Harding street is being sentenced on June 8, 2021. Lets hope some questions are answered, and she gets some serious time for her crime. She's already a convicted felon, so the prosecutor should be able to get 3 to 5 years easily. Anything under three years is an insult to the Homeowners that were killed.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The woman who admitted to making a false 911 report that led to the botched Harding Street
raid in January 2019 learned her sentencing for the crime on Tuesday. Patricia Ann Garcia, 53, pleaded guilty back in March
of this year to a charge of conveying false information.

A judge sentenced Garcia to 40 months in federal detention and three years probation. According to an indictment, Garcia
claimed her 25-year-old daughter was inside Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle's home doing drugs, but federal prosecutors
said none of it was true. Three weeks after the report to police, narcotics officers executed a "no-knock" warrant on the home.

Nicholas and Tuttle were killed and four officers were wounded. The judge also said Tuesday that Garcia may have planned for
something bad to happen, calling 911 multiple times. To date, 12 total officers, both former and current members of the
Houston Police Department, have been indicted in the raid. Most have been accused of falsifying time cards and other alleged
crimes related to their pay.

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:55 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:13 am

baseballguy2001 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:22 am I'm not sure I agree with your analysis. I think the whole house of cards fell because a couple of officers were seriously wounded during the execution of the search warrant. That led to the discovery that the warrant was obtained because one of the officers perjured himself. If none of the officers had been wounded, and only the homeowners killed, none of this would have seen the light of day until much later, if ever.

Had Goins not been shot by friendly fire, he would have been able to plant the drugs he had in his car in the house and it would have been big news that evening at 6 pm.

I guess I missed it, but will Goins be standing trial for his involvement in this deadly fiasco?

Former HPD officer Steven Bryant pleads guilty to federal charge related to botched Harding Street raid

Houston Will Spend More Than $1 Million To Fight Harding Street Raid Lawsuit

puma guy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:47 am

WildBill wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:45 am An update the Harding Street Raid

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A second police officer has been charged with murder and is among more than
10 other current and former officers who have been indicted as part of an ongoing investigation into the Houston
Police Department narcotics unit following a deadly 2019 drug raid.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/01/26/tex ... band-wife/

I still don't see any actions taken on the instigator/s of this conspiracy.

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A second police officer has been charged with murder and is among more than
10 other current and former officers who have been indicted as part of an ongoing investigation into the Houston
Police Department narcotics unit following a deadly 2019 drug raid.

Officer Felipe Gallegos was indicted for murder in Tuttle’s death. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.

Five other officers were indicted Monday for their roles in an alleged scheme to steal overtime payments
as part of their work with the narcotics squad.

Three of the officers — Oscar Pardo, Cedell Lovings and Nadeem Ashraf — face first degree felony charges
of engaging in organized criminal activity related to theft of a public servant and tampering with a
governmental record. They face up to life in prison if convicted.

Two other officers — Frank Medina and Griff Maxwell — face second-degree felonies on these same charges
and could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Federal judge rules against Houston in latest Harding Street chapter
According to the ruling the civil suit will be handled by the Probate Court so the City
of Houston is ordered to hand over documents to the lawyers representing the Tuttle
and Nicholas families.

The civil lawsuit, filed by the estates of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas,
has been met with obstacles by the city of Houston from the beginning according
to Mike Doyle, one of the attorneys involved, “This is the fifth time a court has
looked at and said, ‘city you need to start answering questions,’” said Doyle on Friday.

The family is seeking to secure records from the Houston Police Department, including ballistic,
as well as interviews with those involved in the deadly raid that killed Tuttle and Nicholas on Jan. 28, 2019.

“The families are beyond tired of the cover-up at this point. They want answers. Every step of the
way they are obviously happy that the court says no, we are not going to let this stay covered up.
They are ready to get some answers,” Doyle said.

SQLGeek wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:58 pm Can we change the title of this thread to "HPD Murders Two Innocent People in their Home"?

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The family of Rhogena Nicholas, the woman killed in her home
during a controversial drug raid by Houston police, says the plan to introduce new findings,
according to the family's attorney Michael Patrick Doyle.

Nicholas' family is set to appear in probate court for a hearing in the case at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 18.

According to a release by the Doyle LLP and St. Martin & Bourque LLC law firms, "In a ruling Monday,
Judge Jerry Simoneaux of Harris County Probate Court No. 1 denied the city's latest attempt to withhold
evidence of the incident from the family of Rhogena Nicholas, who was killed along with her husband,
Dennis Tuttle, on Jan. 28, 2019. In earlier rulings, the Texas Supreme Court twice rejected the city's
attempts to stop the probate court, which routinely handles wrongful death and probate cases,
from proceeding with the Nicholas family's petition to investigate the incident."

Doyle said that during Friday's hearings they will present new findings from their own investigation and
present witness testimony from a family member, from expert witnesses and from a representative of
the Houston Police Department.

"The Nicholas family is grateful to be moving forward with our investigation. From the beginning, the city's
story about the incident has never made sense. It's time for the cover-up to end," said Doyle.

puma guy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:46 pm On a serious note; I'm still hopeful that the two people who instigated this retaliatory raid and murder of this couple are exposed and appropriate punishment is brought to bear. Hint: Goines didn't dream this up out of the blue.

Ogg: Case involving George Floyd was among Goines cases being reviewed by prosecutors

Legal experts applaud Harris County District Attorney for seeking to overturn cases tied to former HPD officer

Conviction for $10 crack buy, based on casework of disgraced ex-HPD cop Goines, is overturned

A 35-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to drug dealing after a Houston police officer said he paid her $10
to buy a rock of crack cocaine has had her conviction overturned. Court records show that in March 2017,
Goines approached Scott -- a homeless woman with a history of mental illness and a lengthy record of petty
crimes -- and asked her to help him buy $10 of crack cocaine.

The recent court action marks the latest time local judges have reversed convictions won on the testimony
of former officer Gerald Goines, the veteran Houston Police Department narcotics officer now facing
charges after investigators accused him of lying to obtain a warrant used in a deadly drug raid last year.