Goines Gets Five-Year Federal Term in Harding Street Raid Case

Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines was sentenced to five years in federal prison after admitting he used false statements to obtain the warrant for the 2019 no-knock raid at Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas’s home. He falsely claimed a confidential informant had bought heroin there and provided it to him, along with other false claims about drug purchases. The raid ended in a shootout that killed Tuttle and Nicholas and injured police officers. Goines receives credit for time served, leaving 35 months on the federal sentence, which will run concurrently with his 60-year state sentence for the couple’s murders; that state sentence is under appeal. At sentencing, he expressed remorse and apologized to the families.