CONCORD — A Maine woman was allegedly unlawfully searched, detained for 13 days on elevated bail, and billed for unwarranted internal body searches on the Seacoast all because she lived in the same town as another woman who hid oxycodone pills in her vagina.

Those are the claims laid out in a new federal civil rights lawsuit filed against multiple New Hampshire State Police troopers, the departments of corrections for both Strafford and Rockingham counties, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover and a WDH doctor.

Attorney Lawrence Vogelman filed the suit on behalf of Robyn White, of Avon, Maine, in U.S. District Court in Concord on Oct. 8, according to court records.

In the suit, Vogelman argues White is entitled to a jury trial and damages for “physical, mental and emotional injury and pain, mental anguish, suffering, humiliation, embarrassment, and medical expenses” she endured in February 2017.

State troopers Haden Wilber and Matthew Locke, an unnamed third trooper, multiple unnamed Strafford and Rockingham county correctional officers, and Dr. Thomas Lydon are all named as individuals within the suit for their roles in a series of alleged civil rights violations that occurred from Feb. 10-13, 2017.

The defendants hadn’t filed any responses in court as of Wednesday, according to U.S. District Court records.

Strafford County Administrator Ray Bower confirmed his county was served with the paperwork last week. Beyond confirming the county has filed the suit with its insurance company, Bower said he couldn’t comment further because county officials “haven’t had any opportunity to research those documents.”

Messages were left with state police, WDH and Rockingham County Department of Corrections officials Wednesday.

White’s suit claims she was driving north on Interstate 95 Feb. 10, 2017, when Wilber pulled her over because snow was covering her vehicle’s rear lights.

Wilber allegedly found heroin residue within White’s purse when he searched the purse without White’s consent and without legal justification during the traffic stop, Vogelman claims in the suit.

Wilber and Locke subsequently called the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department in Maine after using White’s driver’s license to identify her a resident of that county.

“Whoever answered the phone had not heard of White but told defendants Wilber and Locke that Avon is a small town, and six months ago, in an unrelated case, the Franklin County Sheriff pulled over a woman who hid oxycodone pills in her vagina,” Vogelman wrote in the suit. “On this information and this information alone, defendants Wilber and Locke ‘suspected’ White was either the same woman from Avon, Maine, who hid oxycodone pills in her vagina, or had done the same thing.”

White denied hiding any drugs on or inside herself, after which she was transported to the Strafford County House of Corrections so corrections staff could use the facility’s full-body X-ray scanner in an attempt to locate drugs, Vogelman claims.

Vogelman claims that after a Strafford County corrections officer — named as a defendant using the pseudonym “John Doe” — claimed he saw two “abnormalities” in White’s intestinal region, White was locked in a dry cell at the Rockingham County House of Corrections for five days as staff waited for her to pass something.

Despite the fact White ultimately didn’t pass anything, and despite the fact corrections staff noted in the jail’s booking system that no foreign objects were detected during the Feb. 10 search, White’s bail was increased from $250 cash to $5,000 cash in response to a delivery of articles prohibited charge authorities added against her, according to Vogelman.

Vogelman claims in the suit that the justification for the additional charge relies on fabricated evidence, given that, allegedly, “no additional drugs were ever discovered.” Vogelman also argues the fabricated evidence caused White to unlawfully be detained significantly longer and be held on an unreasonable level of bail when compared to people who are arrested on a drug possession charge.

After her time in a Strafford County dry cell, White was transferred to Valley Street Jail in Manchester Feb. 15, where she tested negative for drugs. Vogelman alleges White was “forced” to wait another day at that jail for drugs to pass.

“Again, White adamantly denied having any drugs in her, and nothing ‘passed,’” Vogelman wrote in the suit.

After the additional day at Valley Street Jail, White was transferred to Rockingham County Feb. 16. Vogelman claims she remained there for another seven days because she couldn’t afford her $5,000 cash bail.

White’s bail was reduced back to $250 Feb. 21 and the delivery of articles prohibited charge was dropped Feb. 22, but Judge Sawako Gardner ordered White undergo another body scan before she could be released.

On Feb. 23, during that second body scan, an unnamed Strafford County corrections officer — possibly the same “John Doe” or another officer referred to as “James Doe” — again claimed they saw an “abnormality,” according to Vogelman.

White was then transported to Rockingham County, where an unnamed Rockingham County corrections officer and an unnamed state trooper told White they were waiting on a warrant that would require her to be subjected to a vaginal and rectal search, Vogelman claims.

White consented to go with them to WDH before they secured the warrant, insisting “she had nothing hiding in her person,” Vogelman claims.

Lydon performed a pelvic and rectal exam on White at about 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23, finding no contraband, Vogelman claims.

White was then released from police custody at 7:14 that same evening. On Sept. 29, 2017, White received a WDH bill for “emergency services” for Lydon’s Feb. 23 exam, according to Vogelman.

Vogelman claims on behalf of his client that White shouldn’t be subject to paying for the exam and that she’s entitled to damages and attorney’s fees from the authorities named in the suit because the entire ordeal and White’s elongated jail stays were based upon evidence that didn’t exist.

No court proceedings had been scheduled in the case as of Wednesday afternoon, according to federal court records.