{"id":419379,"date":"2026-08-28T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419379\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:30:09","slug":"former-houston-officer-gerald-goines-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419379\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Houston officer Gerald Goines pleads guilty to federal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Gerald_Goines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gerald Goines<\/a>, the former Houston Police Department officer convicted in the murders of the couple killed during the botched Harding Street raid in 2019, appeared in federal court Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Goines pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law, resulting in bodily injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">In September 2024, Goines was sentenced to 60 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas during a no-knock raid on Harding Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">During the nearly five-week trial, we learned that Goines, a former HPD narcotics officer, lied about the affidavit that was used to obtain the deadly no-knock warrant on Harding Street. In the affidavit, Goines claimed the couple was drug dealers and that one of his CIs had purchased heroin from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The deadly raid left five officers, including Goines, injured.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerald Goines, the former Houston Police Department officer convicted in the murders of the couple killed during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[146065,56,58,57,5171],"class_list":["post-419379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-goines","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-hpd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}