Chief: Officer lied in affidavit before deadly Houston raid
Source: Associated Press
Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
Updated 5:59 pm CST, Friday, February 15, 2019
HOUSTON (AP) — A lead investigator lied in an affidavit justifying a drug raid on a Houston home in which two residents were killed and four undercover officers were shot and wounded during a gun battle, the city's police chief said Friday.
In the search warrant that was used to justify entering the home, officers with the Houston Police Department's narcotics unit had alleged that a confidential informant had bought heroin at the house the day before the Jan. 28 raid. The informant had also allegedly seen a handgun in the home.
But according to an affidavit filed as part of the ongoing investigation into the raid and made public Friday, the informant told investigators he or she had not bought any drugs at the home and had not been involved in any work leading up to the raid.
The heroin allegedly bought at the home had been obtained elsewhere, according to the affidavi
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when the story first came out, conservative media went full "blue lives matter" assuming it was black or hispanic minorities.
