A federal jury convicted Alex Kassem of Houston after hearing evidence that the former county employee transported heroin across Texas and Louisiana in a marked police car.
A federal jury found a former investigator with the Waller County District Attorney’s office guilty of money laundering and attempted possession with intent to distribute heroin, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced Tuesday.
Of the four charges brought against Kassem, he was found not guilty in two: another money laundering charge and possession of a firearm while committing a drug trafficking crime. The jury deliberated for eight hours after hearing audio and watching video recordings of each transaction Kassem participated in, the Justice Department announced. Kassem told the jury that he was acting on behalf of the district attorney’s office, conducting undercover investigations, according to the federal agency’s release. Kasser’s former employer refuted those claims.
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