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 that year for "personal gain" by two troopers.

In a unanimous decision, the appeals court ruled that Tiffany Washington’s lawsuit against former Det. Crystal Marlowe, LMPD and the city should have been dismissed by the trial judge because the suit was filed after the state’s one-year statute of limitations.