Five years ago today mark the anniversary of one of Houston’s police and the city’s most darkest moments in its history when a team of Squad 5 narcotic officers burst into the home of 59-year-old Dennis and 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas Tuttle hoping to find black tar heroin where the married couple lived in the East End Pecan Park District located at 7815 Harding Street.
Everything went according to plan for the narcotic officers until a subsequent internal investigation uncovered a shocking discovery: The lead agent Gerald Goines known as “G” by his fellow officers had lied to a city judge to obtain a no-knock warrant.
At the heart of the case was a jealous woman who thought her boyfriend liked Rhogena Tuttle far too much although Rhogena and the woman’s boyfriend had only exchanged pleasantries and spoke briefly. Thinking Rhogena wanted her significant other she made a 911 call to police and lied saying the Tuttles sold drugs, had her daughter locked in their home, and that the couple had plenty of powerful weapons.