Heroic heroes being heroic

Informant didn't buy drugs from suspects killed in shootout

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) --

A confidential informant didn't buy drugs at the southeast Houston home where a botched police raid turned into a deadly shootout last month, according to a new search warrant.

The shocking new information was revealed today after ABC13 obtained two of several search warrants executed as part of the ongoing investigation following the deadly raid.
The search warrant clearly shows the initial information used to obtain the no-knock search warrant involved a number of lies.

In the original warrant obtained on Jan. 28, the lead case agent, Officer Gerald Goines, wrote that a confidential informant bought heroin at the house the day before the drug raid. The informant also allegedly saw heroin and a weapon, which appeared to be a 9mm handgun, as he was buying the suspected drugs at the house.

In that warrant, the informant allegedly returned to Goines with a brown powder substance, telling him that it was called "boy," which is slang for heroin. The confidential informant also said the substance he allegedly bought at the home was packed in a large quantity of plastic baggies.

All of that information was written in the search warrant, leading a judge to find probable cause and signing it.

 

Oopsie.

I guess those involved will have to take a paid vacation instead of those coveted promotions,plaques and drugs on the table pics denoting their heroism.

That drug war is just great ain't it.

Oh well you can't make an omelette without cracking some eggs as they say.

At least they got that half ounce of weed and the negligible amount of coke off the streets.

If it saved one life totes worth it.

Well.......notwithstanding the two low-lifes who got their just desserts.