LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A jury awarded three Kentucky State troopers nearly $1 million as part of a verdict in a whistleblower lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed in December 2019, claims Sgts. Kevin Burton and Mike Garyantes and Lt. Frank Taylor told supervisors and a prosecutor that evidence was being taken from the Elizabethtown post property rooms and secure lots between July and November of this year for “personal gain” by two troopers.
The three plaintiffs, who were tasked with oversight of the property, claim that they were then retaliated against by KSP, according to the suit.
Burton said he never expected to file the suit.
”This was never an attack on the Kentucky State Police. This was never an attack on any form of law enforcement whatsoever," Burton said Friday. "We had a theft. We'd had a theft from the evidence room. That was very clear and concise."
Burton resigned under threat of being transferred. Garyantes was suspended and Taylor was transferred, the suit claims. The men were “repeatedly threatened that they would have adverse employment actions taken against them if they continued to report the thefts and inappropriate acquisitions from the evidence room and impound lot,” according to the suit.
Burton said between July and November 2019, he learned another officer took the items from the property room at the Elizabethtown Post.
”He took three pairs of Eddy Bauer shoes," Burton said. "The shoes were associated with a fraud case that was still opened it was...
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