Former Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for a federal civil rights charge connected to the deadly 2019 Harding Street raid that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.
Appearing in federal court Monday, Goines received the sentence as part of a plea agreement.
Goines will receive 25 months credit for time served. The remaining 35 months will run concurrent with his state sentence.
Goines is already serving a 60-year state prison sentence stemming from the Harding Street raid. That sentence remains under appeal.
Goines pleaded guilty in August to deprivation of rights under color of law resulting in bodily injury and admitted he made materially false statements in an affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for the Harding Street home.
According to federal prosecutors, Goines falsely claimed in the warrant affidavit that a confidential informant had purchased heroin from a resident at the home and provided the drugs to him. Goines later admitted he knew that information was false.
Prosecutors said Goines also included other false statements in the affidavit, including claims that other people had purchased drugs from residents of the home in the roughly three weeks before the warrant was obtained.
The warrant led to the Jan. 28, 2019, no-knock raid at the Harding Street home.
Tuttle and Nicholas were killed during the ensuing shootout. Four HPD officers were also injured, according to federal prosecutors.
