Former Texas DA Investigator Found Guilty of Trafficking Heroin, Money Laundering

A former investigator with the Waller County District Attorney’s Office has been found guilty of attempted possession with intent to distribute heroin and money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced. A federal jury found that Mohammed “Alex” Ahmed Kassem, 49, of Houston used his marked police vehicle to transport “sham” heroin and drug cartel money between Louisiana, Houston, and San Antonio on three separate occasions for which he was paid $31,000, the DOJ said on Tuesday. Waller County sits about 60 miles northwest of Houston. “When Alex Kassem wore his Waller County peace officer credentials and Waller County-issued firearm while transporting what he thought were drugs in his Waller County-issued vehicle and then accepted what he thought was cartel drug money, he breached the most sacred of trusts—the trust a community places in its law enforcement,” said U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani. “Today’s conviction brings Kassem one step closer to exchanging his peace officer attire for prison-issued garb and to restoring a trust once lost.”...