Doctors Perform Invasive Procedures on Man Arrested for Minor Traffic Violation

[MMiz]

4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare

A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, police officers with the City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center made some questionable decisions.

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Two doctors, along with many others, are being sued for anally probing the guy twice, administering 3 enemas, 2 x-rays, and a performing a colonoscopy. He was stuck with the bill!

 

[PotatoMedic]

This is not going to end well for anyone.

 

[NomadicMedic]

End well.

I see what you ...

Oh never mind. He's gonna be a rich dude.

 

[savemachine]

Just making everyone look bad (lays head low today)

 

[PotatoMedic]

Not that it changes much if anything. But it sounds like "a man with his name" has a history of hiding narcotics in his rectum according to court records.

I read that last night and cant find the news story right now.

 

[Akulahawk]

Not that it changes much if anything. But it sounds like "a man with his name" has a history of hiding narcotics in his rectum according to court records.

I read that last night and cant find the news story right now.

I would say that it does not change anything at all. If the story that was linked to contains the truth of the incident, I would say that someone is going to become very rich, relatively speaking, for the actions that were forced upon him. In particular, if the search warrant expired at 10 PM, and the body cavity search was extended past that... someone's got a lot of explaining to do! And it's going to be in front of a judge. The only person probably not going to be horribly enmeshed in this is going to be the judge who signed the original order.

 

[ffemt8978]

I would say that it does not change anything at all. If the story that was linked to contains the truth of the incident, I would say that someone is going to become very rich, relatively speaking, for the actions that were forced upon him. In particular, if the search warrant expired at 10 PM, and the body cavity search was extended past that... someone's got a lot of explaining to do! And it's going to be in front of a judge. The only person probably not going to be horribly enmeshed in this is going to be the judge who signed the original order.

Setting aside the whole aspect of performing a surgical procedure after two X-rays, two enemas, and two physical exams failed to produce any evidence don't forget about the part of the warrant being executed in a different county that it was issued in.

 

[Akulahawk]

Setting aside the whole aspect of performing a surgical procedure after two X-rays, two enemas, and two physical exams failed to produce any evidence don't forget about the part of the warrant being executed in a different county that it was issued in.

I didn't forget about that part. Some warrants are valid state-wide, some are valid only in the county where it was issued. The search wasn't legal on 2 points: location where the search was performed, and outside the time parameters. All the invasive stuff was performed outside the county, as soon as they left the county, the warrant wasn't valid. The warrant expired at 10 pm and many of the searches occurred after that, including the colonoscopy that was apparently performed at 1 am... One minor mitigating factor was that the local in-county facility that the guy was originally brought to refused to do the search.

 

[PotatoMedic]

I would say that it does not change anything at all. If the story that was linked to contains the truth of the incident, I would say that someone is going to become very rich, relatively speaking, for the actions that were forced upon him. In particular, if the search warrant expired at 10 PM, and the body cavity search was extended past that... someone's got a lot of explaining to do! And it's going to be in front of a judge. The only person probably not going to be horribly enmeshed in this is going to be the judge who signed the original order.

Like I said... "Not that it changes much if anything."

 

[mycrofft]

No excuse, but it can be easy for some people, including medical personnel, to buy into the urgency expressed by officers. The officers may be propelled by their anxiety that the arrestee had drugs on board just waiting to leak and kill him, or to discover contraband. Derringers have reportedly been "keister stashed" and as arrestees have their handcuffs in the back, conceivably one could retrieve it from their cloaca.

A flatplate xray, unless really screwed up (say, the arrestee would not hold still), would have revealed drugs or contraband*.

As with every single one of these news stories, the lesson is that the press will neither get it completely, nor completely right, if not just plain wrong or even falsely.

*PS: What would you do if you suspected an arrestee had rectally stashed either contraband drugs which might leak and kill him, or a weapon? Maybe including the basis for your arrest?

 

[TransportJockey]

From what I understand this was very illegal and this guy will own the county SO. Given what I know about that county (I used to live there) I'm not surprised at all.

 

[mycrofft]

Here's the warrant

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...-police-departments-anal-probing-controversy/

This had to be motivated by SOMETHING. No one is going to these lengths and taking such risks because they "want to", especially licensed medical professionals. If that was the case, there would be many other cases.


So far all the accounts except the "he was clenching his arse" one, are allegations by the plaintiff amplified and blared out by local media.