A Texas state trooper is under investigation after two Fort Worth women claim he got pliers to help remove piercings from their breasts and later injured one of them.

The trooper, identified in arrest records as Michael Tice, has been placed on administrative leave, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger told KXAS-TV (NBC5).

Courtney Palacios, 19, and Tayler Myers, 18, said they were returning to Fort Worth from a concert in Houston on Monday when a trooper stopped them for speeding in Marlin, about 25 miles southeast of Waco. The trooper said he found a single pill in the vehicle and arrested them and two male friends for drug possession, the women said.

While they were being booked into the Falls County Jail, the two women said the trooper asked them to remove any piercings. When Palacios had trouble removing a nipple ring, she said, the trooper went to his car and came back with pliers.

He asked them to continue to try to remove the piercings themselves but they were unable. Then Palacios said the trooper touched her.

"So then, without gloves or anything … he gets on there and he tries to twist it and he starts shaking from trying so hard and he ends up pulling it and ripping it and it starts bleeding," she said.

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Posted by breaking news producer Tom Steele.