A pair of Houston Police Department officers — one former and one current — are under investigation by the Texas Rangers after one of them used a personal GPS tracker without a warrant and both lied to cover it up, according to court records.
The officers, Juan Gonzalez and Peter Vu, have not been charged with a crime. But affidavits filed by a Texas Ranger signal that the officers and others may be the targets of a grand jury investigation for unlawful installation of a tracking device and, potentially, official oppression.
The FBI obtained a September 2025 video showing Gonzalez, who left the police department last month, attaching a magnetic tracker to a pickup truck belonging to a man under federal investigation at a northwest Houston apartment complex, according to the state investigator’s sworn affidavits in search warrants signed by a judge earlier in May…