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Family of Rhogena Nicholas alleges HPD using overtime fraud allegations as raid cover-up KTRK Replay Video UP NEXT New court documents filed on behalf of the family of a woman killed in a botched Houston Police Department raid in 2019 allege that HPD is trying to use an unrelated matter to cover up her wrongful death. The filing also accuses the Harris County District Attorney's Office of not reviewing or downloading potential evidence until Feb. 26, 2021, weeks after the office announced it was closing its investigation into the raid. On the afternoon of Jan. 28, 2019, Denni...
Updated: 12:13 PM CST February 11, 2021 FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas — Two landlords have been indicted in an alleged scheme to defraud Fort Bend County of CARES Act funds. The indictment, which was brought down on Feb. 8 by a Fort Bend County Grand Jury, alleges Roger Kurian and Matthew John frauded the county by submitting fraudulent documents to apply for CARES Act funding. The county said they were notified about the potential fraud in December 2020 when a resident, who never applied for assistance through the CARES Act, received funding. In fact, the resident paid her rent m...
Mon, Feb 1st 2021 8:06pm — Tim Cushing We still haven't seen an end to the fallout resulting from a botched (and bogus) drug raid in Houston that ended with two residents killed by police officers. It also ended with five officers wounded -- one of them paralyzed. The raid was predicated on false statements made by Officer Gerald Goines, who secured permission from a judge to perform a no-knock raid, claiming the residents were armed and selling heroin. While guns were recovered, no heroin was. Indeed, no evidence of drug dealing was recovered -- just personal amounts of marijuana and cocai...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The lawyer of a Houston police officer who is facing a murder charge in a botched drug raid believes a Harris County grand jury "indicted a hero." A day after being the second officer indicted with murder in the 2019 HPD raid that left a married couple dead, Felipe Gallegos, his wife and his parents were front and center during a news conference on Tuesday. Gallegos turned himself in and was granted a $50,000 bond after the murder indictment. "It's a sad day in Harris County." Gallegos' lawyer, famed defense attorney Rusty Hardin, insisted his client did not know the ...