HOUSTON – Former Houston police officer Steven Bryant has been sentenced to five years of probation in connection to the deadly Harding Street raid in 2019.<\/p>\n
Bryant pleaded guilty to a federal charge of obstructing justice by falsifying records in 2021. He was sentenced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“Mr. Bryant received a sentence of probation for five years.\u00a0 We are grateful to the Court for considering his cooperation with authorities and for giving him the well-earned opportunity to begin a new chapter in his life.\u00a0 Mr. Bryant will not take this opportunity for granted,” attorney Andy Drumheller said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Deadly Harding Street raid <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were shot and killed in their southeast Houston home during the botched drug raid on January 28, 2019. Four police officers were also injured in a shooting during the raid.<\/p>\n
Bryant and Gerald Goines, both former Houston police officers, faced federal charges in connection to the deadly raid.<\/p>\n
Goines pleaded guilty <\/a>to color of law charges last month. He admitted to making false claims to secure the search warrant that led to the botched operation. He is awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n Bryant was accused of falsely claiming in a supplemental case report that he had previously assisted Goines in the Harding Street investigation. Federal authorities said he also identified a brown powdery substance (heroin) he retrieved from Goines\u2019 vehicle as narcotics purchased from the Harding Street residence.<\/p>\n Goines convicted of murder <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Goines is already serving a 60-year prison sentence. In September 2024, he was convicted of the\u00a0murders <\/a>of Tuttle and Nicholas.<\/p>\n Prosecutors accused Goines of misleading a judge to secure a no-knock search warrant for the home of Tuttle and Nicholas, claiming that black tar heroin was being sold there. They argued that Goines falsely stated a confidential informant had purchased drugs from the couple’s residence. However, he later admitted to having no informant and conducting the operation himself.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say there was not only no informant and no drug deal, they say Goines never even investigated the home on Harding Street before barging in with a narcotics team in 2019, serving a warrant that quickly turned deadly.<\/p>\n The Source: Information about Steven Bryant’s sentence comes from his attorney. Background information comes from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas and the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Harding Street Raid<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Former Houston police officer Steven Bryant has been sentenced to five years of probation in connection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,141248,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-437653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-harding-street-raid","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437653","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=437653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}