Posted on 06/22/2019 4:02:59 PM PDT by abb
Harris County prosecutors are threatening to issue grand jury subpoenas to the Houston Police Department for details about confidential informants used by narcotics officers at the center of the botched Harding Street drug raid in January that ended with two residents dead and five officers injured.
After police failed to fulfill a previous request for the information in May, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Natasha Sinclair sent a one-page letter Thursday demanding HPD turn over a trove of information relating to the bust, including the identities of informants used by Squad 15 since 2014, the names of those who signed off on informant payments and details about alleged buys.
The demand letter comes amid escalating tensions between police and Harris County prosecutors and suggests that the police department has dragged its feet in providing records despite promises from Chief Art Acevedo for an open and transparent investigation.
The letter also indicates the DA's office may be conducting a wider review than the internal investigation by HPD and a readiness to involve a grand jury in the process.
Acevedo responded hours later Thursday to the letter with a statement saying police had turned over their investigation into the shooting in mid-May and pledged to continue to work with prosecutors.
The district attorney's office, however maintains that the requested records about Squad 15 are relevant to their probe of the failed raid.
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I’m wondering if the consumer quantities of drugs found were planted by the cops. After this cluster****, it wouldn’t surprise me if they had to do something to avoid severe disciplinary action, up to, and including, criminal prosecution.
Fire Arthur the Asshole.
I smell a DA that is looking to make a name for himself at the expense of law enforcement in order to seek higher office. An investigation, sure, but six years of records?
HPD brought it on themselves. All they had to do was tell the truth from the getgo, but they chose the coverup route.
“An investigation, sure, but six years of records?”
Probing a pattern of perfidy?
I certainly hope no Muslim terrorists were profiled in that sweep. You know just because they blew up some people with bombs.
We must not call it “Islamic terrorism”.
After all, 09/11/2001 was where “some people did something”. /Democrat Ilhan Omar
Time to fire Art!
I’d wager it means they have a reason to suspect it’s been going on at least that long. Perhaps since the hire or promotion of a certain key individual?
“the raid itself only turned up a small amount of cocaine and marijuana but none of the heroin police expected to find”
If the toxicology is negative then something is very wrong.
This is obviously a screw up and a cover up. Odds are the couple were misidentified, totally innocent or any wrongdoing, the cop in charge lied to get the warrant, the cops went in like D-Day and killed the occupants, and any drugs found were planted by the cops. This whole thing stinks. Read Sidney Powell’s book “Licensed to Lie” for a sense of just how corrupt the Houston Police Department is.
I smell a bootlicker that is willing to go along with coverups of years of criminal misconduct by dirty cops.
A Hummer, with someone in the gunner’s turret aiming a rifle at the person with the camera?
And they wonder why people don’t like them.
Oh come on, that's nothing. There were people on here that defended the murder of Daniel Shaver. Remember the female cop that entered the wrong apartment and shot the real tenant? People on here defended what she did.
There are sadly some people on here that will defend everything the police do, no matter how morally wrong, or outright illegal it is.
Absolutely no idea.
I seen the Autopsy reports. Better than even money the wounded police were from friendly fire.
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