SOUTH STRABANE, Pa. (WPXI) — A woman said that she was strip-searched on the side of Interstate 70 in South Strabane by the state police this summer after being pulled over for traveling 5 mph over the speed limit. Holly Elish, 34, of Bentleyville, said in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that she was heading home from work on June 27 when she was pulled over for speeding. Elish pulled over, and when Trooper Brian Rousseau approached her car, she gave him her identification, the complaint said. Rousseau returned to his vehicle for a few minutes, and then walked back to Elish’s passenger side window, the lawsuit said, where he asked her consent to search the vehicle. Elish refused, and Rousseau replied “something like ‘he had the right to search her vehicle,’” the complaint said. Around the same time, another trooper, who is unnamed in the complaint, arrived and spoke with Rousseau outside of Elish’s hearing. The troopers then asked Elish to exit her vehicle and again asked for permission to search it. Nothing was found in the search, and after at least 15 minutes, two more troopers arrived, including a woman. It was then that she was strip-searched. First, the trooper physically and visually inspected Elish’s breasts, the lawsuit said, then she directed Elish to pull down her pants and underwear to her ankles and “‘squat’ to the ground, during which she bent down to the ground with one knee and performed a visual cavity inspection.”