Man Seeks Millions After N.M. Police Force Colonoscopy in Drug Search

Police respond to a crime scene in Deming, N.M., on Dec. 20, 2005. A Jan. 2, 2013, police stop in Deming resulted in a colonoscopy for one resident wrongly suspected of drug possession.

Police forced New Mexico scrap metal tradesman David Eckert to undergo two digital anal probes, three enema insertions and ultimately a colonoscopy after officers incorrectly assumed he was concealing drugs, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on his behalf.

No drugs were found by police or doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M. The exhaustive search began when Eckert allegedly rolled through a stop sign in Deming, N.M., on Jan. 2, 2013.
Albuquerque civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy is representing Eckert and says she is seeking "in excess of $1 million in punitive damages alone" from the law enforcement and medical personnel responsible and their employers.
[UPDATE: Second Anal Probe Lawsuit Being Filed Against N.M. Police]
"We see this as a multimillion-dollar case," Kennedy said. "This is essentially medical anal rape, numerous times over a 12-hour period. I can't imagine anything more horrifying than what happened to our client. It's just sadistic."
The apparent justification for the search, Kennedy said, was that police believed Eckert's buttocks were clenched during the traffic stop.

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