Female Texas trooper suspended amid body search
Posted: 12/20/2012 12:49:02 PM MST
DALLAS (AP) - A female Texas
trooper has been suspended amid an investigation of her videotaped body cavity
search of two women along a busy highway.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said late Wednesday that
Trooper Kelley Halleson has been suspended with pay. Results of a Texas Rangers
inquiry are expected to go to a Dallas County grand jury in January.
An Irving woman and her adult niece this week sued Halleson and a male
trooper, plus DPS director Steve McCraw, over the July traffic stop. Angel and
Ashley Dobbs say the search videotaped by a patrol car camera was unlawful and
humiliating.
The women say a male trooper says he saw them throw cigarette butts out a
window, questioned them about drugs and summoned Halleson. No drugs were found.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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