Just inside the Idaho border with Oregon at 11:40 a.m. that day, Roseen pulled off Interstate 84 to use the toilet at the rest stop, according to the complaint and demand for jury trial. Just before he exited the interstate, the complaint said, Roseen passed an Idaho State Police trooper parked in the median.

Trooper Justin Klitch, who is listed as the first defendant in the lawsuit, followed Roseen to the rest stop, where he activated the overhead lights on his patrol car and then walked up to the parked Ridgeline.

The complaint claimed Klitch followed Roseen only because of his Colorado license plates, which led the trooper to conclude he must be transporting illegal substances.

Klitch did not initially give Roseen a reason for contacting him, but eventually said that Roseen failed to signal before he exited and that he bumped into two curbs at the rest stop. Roseen insisted that he did signal before the exit. He said he could not distinguish curbs hidden under snow and was distracted when Klitch “suddenly appeared behind him,” the complaint said.

The trooper rejected Roseen’s reason for getting off the highway — that he had to use the bathroom — and insisted that Roseen was attempting to avoid the state police. Klitch then asked Roseen why his eyes appeared glassy and accused Roseen of transporting something “that he should not have in his vehicle,” the complaint said.

Roseen told the trooper that he possessed valid prescription medications. In the complaint, Klitch then asked, “When is the last time you used any marijuana?”