Police Seek Drug Trafficking Network Inside New Mexico Man’s Rectum

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A guy named David Eckert of Deming, New Mexico, was suspected of concealing an entire drug cartel in his colon. Or maybe he just ran a stop sign and some cops with nothing better to do decided they had probable cause to get all up into David Eckert’s ass:

Eckert’s attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search. . . .
Eckert was subjected to repeated and humiliating forced medical procedures. A review of Eckert’s medical records, which he released to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:
1. Eckert’s abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

All because “he appeared to be clenching his buttocks.” Like he was hiding Pablo Escobar and the Cali cartel in his butt or something.

 

110 comments

  1. We won’t here about the seven figure settlement, because it will be confidential. Laughter, road, bank, some assembly required.

  2. Next: ObamaCare used as the legal vehicle for anal examinations of suspects in the custody of law enforcement officials.

  3. Incidents like this and the 80-year-old man who was shot dead when police invaded his house because they ‘thought’ they could smell meth are why I support drug legalization. No matter how bad you might think legalization might make things, it could scarcely be any worse than what the War On Some Drugs has given us.

    At the very least, get rid of federal drug laws except for where the federal government actually has constitutional authority: federal territories, DC, and the border; let the states figure it out from there.

  9. On the up side, this could be the career that Schmalfeldt has been searching for. He could be the designated searcher. Seems right up his “alley” IYKWIMAITYD

  11. Well, the guy did get a free colonoscopy…that procedure is rather expensive. Hope they removed any polyps they found.

  12. Some cops are such assholes. Others just like playing with them a little too much.
    I hope the guy wins his lawsuit. It’s just too bad the judge, doctors and the cops aren’t the ones that will be paying the price to settle. All costs to be borne by the citizenry.

  13. It’s “rectum” not “recturm” – but it’s a disturbing story nonetheless.

    Notice how nobody ever says “It’s a free country” any more?

  16. If all drugs were legalized, the cops would simply find another reason to have abused this guy. Stupid people do stupid things. And stupid people in positions of power do powerfully stupid things. If not drugs, it would have been guns, or kiddie porn (unless he is a teacher, and then it seems to be okay).

    Stupid cops who don’t know and knowingly fail to obey the laws and abuse their power are the problem.

  19. Upon further thought, this guy needs to press charges for rape. Because it sure sounds like he was gang raped.

  20. True dat! I’ve come to agree with Finrod on this one. We saw teh same sort of thing with Prohibition and the early BATFE, which is, alas, still with us and just as stupid as they ever were.

  21. This kind of trash will not end until the cops bear the costs personally. That is the basic problem. It costs them nothing to act like morons.

  23. It’s getting pretty darn scary here in the US. Law enforcement have become thuggish bullies. (My daughter and I are both victims of a know it all special agent). There is doesn’t seem to be much of recourse except hoping the media will cover How many abuses of power are not covered for everyone we read about

  26. No, he didn’t. The hospital is trying to make him pay for all the procedures (none of which he consented to) and are threatening to turn him over to a collection agency.

    The first hospital the cops took him to refused to perform the procedure, because they said it was medically unethical. So the cops took him to another hospital, which was in another county. Outside the scope of the warrant. Also, the warrant expired at 10pm. The procedures went well into the next day. They just kept going.

    The police and the doctors are so screwed. This attorney should be asking for federal criminal charges. And I expect she’ll go after the doctors’ licenses.

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