A Peter Pan Bus Lines driver charged last year with locking a passenger in the cargo compartment of her bus has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state troopers who arrested her, charging they ignored evidence of her innocence and filed a more serious charge after she invoked her constitutional right to not give the troopers a written statement.
The lawsuit was brought by Wendy Alberty against Trooper Robert A. Hunter and Sgt. Stephen J. Samson and filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven.
A prosecutor in Superior Court in Rockville dropped the criminal charges against Alberty a little more than two months after her arrest Aug.