Over the Line: Innocent Woman Suing Border Patrol Over Full Cavity Search Sputnik
go to original June 18, 2016

An Arizona woman who was billed after being subjected to a humiliating full body cavity search by border patrol has now filed a lawsuit against the agency. (Flickr/Maryland National Guard)

After a short trip to Mexico, Ashley Cervantes, who was 19 at the time, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for eight hours as they falsely accused her of smuggling drugs across the border inside her body. She was given no explanation for their suspicions.

Cervantes alleges that after the K9’s were brought out, she was patted down, handcuffed, and told she was being taken to the hospital for an X-ray. However, when she got to the hospital she was probed by a male physician.

The doctor confirmed that Cervantes had no drugs inside of her body following the intrusive search, and eventually she was released. Her parents were then mailed a bill for $575.

Cervantes had the option of suing the agency anonymously, but chose to speak out publicly on the issue in hopes that maybe she can prevent what she went through from happening to someone else.

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