Disgraced Houston cop accused of falsifying George Floyd's 2004 arrest report
Disgraced former Houston cop Gerald Goines is under investigation for presenting false evidence in the convictions of more than 69 people between 2008 - 2019, is now being accused of falsifying information in the arrest report of George Floyd back in 2004. The false information - over an arrest in a minor drug charge - landed Floyd in state jail for a brief sentence, which he served.
The accused ex-narcotics officer, Gerald Goines, is also charged in the death of a couple during a botched raid in Jan. 2019 and is also facing seven counts in federal court over allegedly providing false information in the raid.
“The Harris County District Attorney, Kim Ogg, also said that due to her office’s examination of Mr. Floyd’s case it could expand a continuing investigation to examine more arrests made by Gerald Goines, who was charged with murder after a botched drug raid in 2019 in which two people were killed,” reported Erin Ailworth of The Wall Street Journal.
“Mr. Goines — who also is charged with tampering with a government record by lying to obtain the search warrant that authorized the deadly 2019 raid — is the officer who arrested Mr. Floyd in 2004 over what Ms. Ogg described as a one-rock, $10 crack buy. Mr. Goines’s criminal case is pending. He has pleaded not guilty.”
The district attorney's office recently asked judges in two 2008 narcotics cases involving Goines to rule that brothers Steven and Otis Mallet were innocent.
Otis Mallet was arrested in 2008 in southeast Houston after Goines allegedly said he was working undercover and saw Steven riding his bike, going to Otis, and buying drugs. Otis Mallet served two years in state prison. According to prosecutors, Goines made up the whole thing.
The judges sided with the district attorney, calling the cases against the brothers a "fraud."