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Settlement reached with KSP in evidence tampering case By JOHN
HULTGREN FRANKFORT — A settlement has been reached in a civil action brought against the Kentucky State Police by Katherine McBride, an eastern Kentucky paramedic arrested in February 1996 for tampering with evidence. The civil action against KSP was closed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Frankfort pending approval of an agreed settlement. The terms and conditions will be held confidential until final disposition, which is expected sometime in October. The state action against the Floyd County coroner continues in Prestonsburg. In 1996, McBride was working for P&B Ambulance in Floyd County when she responded to a patient with a small caliber gunshot wound to the chest in Martin, Kentucky. McBride initiated resuscitation attempts and transported the patient to the hospital where she and her partners were arrested by the Kentucky State Police for disturbing a crime scene. McBride filed a civil suit in District Court in 1996 against the Kentucky State Police, Trooper David Maynard, the Floyd County Coroner's Office, and Coroner Roger Nelson for violating her Fourth Amendment rights by wrongful arrest, defamation, and slander. The District Court ruled that there was probable cause to arrest McBride, and that the trooper and coroner had acted appropriately. The case was then reviewed by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati in December, 1998 and remanded back to U.S. District Court in Frankfort for trial.
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