The lawsuit seeks to prevent Bexar County from using traffic stops to conduct searches and seizures if a driver isn't suspected of a crime.
, which supplies pipeline equipment to companies operating in the Eagle Ford shale formation of South Texas. He regularly drives through Bexar County as part of his job.
Babb asked Schott to step out of the truck to give him a warning instead of a ticket, the suit says. The deputy, after patting down Schott, directed him to sit in the patrol car, but his background check on Schott did not reveal any reason to detain him, the suit says. Schott has no criminal history and his driver’s license was valid.
While they waited, the suit says, Babb said that he stops 18-wheelers “all day on normal traffic violations because, unfortunately… a lot of them” are moving people across the border and that “San Antonio is a hub for a lot of that crap.” When Molina, a K-9 unit deputy, and his dog arrived, Babb told him that they had been “tracking” Schott’s truck, the suit says. The lawsuit says that statement was false because the truck had never been connected with any criminal or suspicious activity.
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