ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) A civil rights lawyer on Friday filed a lawsuit against New Mexico authorities accusing them of illegally subjecting drug suspects to invasive body cavity searches. And the attorney who filed the case says she has been getting calls from other people saying they were also detained after an uncertified drug-sniffing dog raised suspicions.
Attorney Shannon Kennedy's says her client, Timothy Young, was strip-searched, then, taken to the hospital for a cavity search. The lawsuit claims the searches were unreasonable, and the search warrant was issued to search his body but not body cavities.
Authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
It is Kennedy's second suit against New Mexico officials over invasive body cavity searches.
Kennedy's first suit involves David Eckert, who was taken to two hospitals and forced to have anal probes, three enemas, two-body X-rays and a colonoscopy following a traffic stop on Jan. 2.