Irving Women Claim Assault, Humiliation After Roadside Cavity Search

December 19th, 2012

Update: Troopers Indicted After Roadside Cavity Search Of Two Women

Via: CBS:

CBS-11 has learned two state troopers involved in a controversial roadside cavity search of two North Texas women have been indicted on criminal charges by a Dallas County Grand Jury.

CBS-11 has learned that one of the troopers, Kelley Helleson, who left the courthouse after testifying Friday, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of official oppression.

She was seen on dashcam video searching the body cavities — front and back — of the two women along an exit ramp of the Bush Turnpike in Irving last summer.

The Texas Department of Public Safety fired Helleson.

CBS-11 has learned the other trooper in the case, David Farrell, is charged with theft after one of the women said her prescription bottle of the painkiller hydrocodone was missing after the search.

Farrell initially stopped the women after seeing them throw a cigarette out of their car window.

Via: CBS:

Two Irving women have filed a federal lawsuit against State Troopers and the head of their department alleging that they were subjected to a humiliating and illegal “cavity search” during a traffic stop.

38-year-old Angel Dobbs and her niece, 24-year-old Ashley Dobbs, were pulled over last July near the area of Highway 161 and Beltline Road for allegedly tossing cigarette butts out of the window of their vehicle while on a ‘road trip’ to Oklahoma.

The women’s attorney Scott Palmer says State Trooper David Farrell claimed he smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle and performed a search, which turned up nothing.

One Response to “Irving Women Claim Assault, Humiliation After Roadside Cavity Search”

  1. LykeX says:

    >>The trooper blamed it on cigarette smoke. “It’s because someone’s a daily smoker in that car, you can attribute it to that,” the trooper is heard saying.<<

    Bullshit. There's no way anybody would confuse the smell of cigarettes with that of marijuana.
    "I smell marijuana" is the universal violate-your-civil-rights-for-free card for cops.

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