Harris County Sheriff's Deputies Indicted for Illegal Cavity Search

Houston, TX -- A couple of Harris County Sheriff's Deputies got indicted on Thursday, June 30, for what could easily be called a power trip.

The indictment actually reads official oppression, a class A misdemeanor punishable with a fine up to $4,000 and a year in county. The problem is, the language doesn't really describe what allegedly happened.

At around 10:30 p.m. on June 21, 2015 Charneshia Corley and another person were running to the store to get something for Corley's mother who hadn't been feeling well. Corley was near the intersection of Ella and Barren Springs when she allegedly rolled through a stop sign.

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At least that's what Harris County Sheriff's Deputy William Strong and another unnamed deputy said after they pulled Corley over, according to Corley's attorney Sam Cammack. After the deputies hit their lights, Corley pulled her car into the parking lot of the Texaco station.

As strong and the unnamed deputy approached Corley's car they claimed they could smell marijuana. So they asked Corley to get out of the car.

The unnamed deputy then allegedly told Corley to "step into his office," and placed her in the back of the patrol car. The deputies searched Corley's car and didn't find anything.

When the unnamed deputy came back to the patrol car he told Corley that the pot smell was in the patrol car now.

The deputy then radioed for a female deputy to come to the scene. Two lady cops showed up, Ronaldine Pierre and R. Rojas. When they got there they told Corley to drop her pants. Corley told the female deputies that she was going commando at the time.

The female deputies allegedly told Corley that it didn't matter if she was free-buffing or rocking Victoria's Secret, she still had to drop trou.

Corley has said that at the time of the stop she was a little hesitantto get half-naked in the middle of a gas station parking lot. The deputies said she resisted the search. Tomato, to-alleged civil rights violation.

When Corley failed to comply in the prescribed time, the deputies handcuffed her, took off her pants and laid her out in the parking lot.

Pierre allegedly sat on Corley's back while Rojas straight up jammed her hand in Corley's lady parts, according to Cammack.

The search, which the deputies never bothered to get a warrant for, was allegedly conducted in full view of God and everyone in the Texaco parking lot.

The deputies said they found 0.02 ounces, or about half-a-gram, of pot in Corley's possession, they didn't mention where they found the bud.

Corley was eventually charged with a possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor that carries a max punishment of a fine up to $2,000 and/or 180 days in county. Since the deputies didn't have a warrant for the search the possession charge was ultimately thrown out, fruit from the poison tree.

The resisting arrest charge was also dropped. Strong and Pierre got indicted and Corley filed a $15 million lawsuit against Harris County.