The Harris County District Attorney's Office is broadening its review of cases to include the work of another officer linked to the botched Pecan Park drug raid that left two dead and five officers injured, officials said Monday.
More than 800 cases handled by Officer Steven Bryant - who has already been relieved of duty - are now up for review. Of those, roughly 30 are currently pending in court.
The move comes weeks after prosecutors announced a review of more than 1,400 cases involving Officer Gerald Goines, the embattled narcotics agent behind the Jan. 28 raid that ended in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.
Houston Police Department previously relieved Bryant of duty as questions mounted about the circumstances behind the raid.
In a search warrant for Bryant's phone data, an investigator with HPD's Special Investigations Unit wrote that Bryant told investigators he had retrieved two bags of heroin from the center console of Goines' police car at the instruction of another officer. That, however, was not consistent with the affidavit used to obtain the warrant for the Jan. 28 raid, in which Goines wrote that Bryant identified heroin brought out of the house.
Though he took the two bags of drugs for testing to determine that they were heroin, Bryant eventually told investigators he had never seen the narcotics in question before retrieving them from the car.
The scandal -- one of the worst to hit HPD in years -- prompted Acevedo to conduct a wide-ranging audit of the Narcotics Division and promise to equip warrant teams with body cameras and to end the use of most no-knock raids. The FBI also opened a rare civil rights investigation into the circumstances behind the allegedly fake warrant.
Houston Police Officers' Union President Joe Gamaldi declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation into the matter.