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Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Woman with same name as suspect spends 13 days in jail in case of mistaken identity

A furious woman is suing the police after being forced to spend two weeks in custody just for having the same name as the suspect they were hunting.

Bethany K. Farber, 30, was stopped as she tried to join her family in Mexico last April.

She told officers she was not the person they were looking for and had never been to Texas, US, where the alleged crime they were investigating took place.

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