City Hall has settled a lawsuit alleging police officers performed an illegal strip and body cavity search in 1999, according to attorneys on both sides.

The city will pay $6,000 to Shawn P. McCormick, 33 – convicted on drug charges in 2000 and since released from prison for serving his sentence.

Gerald Cooley, a Lawrence attorney representing the city, said the settlement is also not to be construed as an admission of guilt on part of the officers.

Ted Lickteig, an Overland Park attorney representing McMormick, said the two parties would file a dismissal in court.

“I would say simply that the case has been resolved to mutual satisfaction of the parties and beyond that I have no further comment,” Lickteig said.

In 2000, McCormick pleaded no contest and was convicted of seven counts, including possession of cocaine. His sentence ended in 2004.

He filed suit in 2002, naming the city and several police officers as defendants and asking for damages in excess of $75,000.

According to court documents, McCormick said officers kicked him, made him lie in a body bag and used a vacuum cleaner nozzle on his genitals and buttocks after a disturbance inside a patrol car during a drug arrest and search on June 9, 1999.

In court documents, attorneys for the police argued they properly took precautions to collect evidence, including placing sheets around McCormick while using an evidence vacuum. They discovered McCormick trying to hide a plastic bag in the patrol car and that white powder had spilled inside the car and inside and outside McCormick’s clothes.