Embattled veteran Houston Police officer Gerald Goines routinely claimed it was too dangerous to knock on a suspected drug dealer’s home.
Goines swore in search warrant affidavits that “knocking and announcing would be dangerous, futile,” because he claimed a confidential informant had seen a gun inside. Those claims led judges to grant no-knock warrants, which accounted for 96 percent of all the search warrants he filed in the last seven years, a KHOU 11 Investigation has found.
But in every one of the more than 100 drug cases based off those warrants, there’s no record of Goines ever seizing a gun after executing a no-knock search warrant.
Those warrants are likely to be part of the District Attorney Kim Ogg’s review of Goines’ past cases that she pledged this week.
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