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A Tennessee grandmother spent 5 months in jail for a crime committed 1,000 miles away until bank records proved she never left her hometown

A Tennessee grandmother spent five months in prison for a crime committed 1,000 miles away until it was found that she never left her hometown to begin with. Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old grandmother of five from Elizabethton, Tennessee, was arrested in July 2025 after facial recognition software wrongly linked her…

The Mary Sue · May 14

Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway

A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in a bank fraud case.

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 15

Grandmother jailed for 6 months after AI error linked her to a crime in a state she had never even visited, lawyers say

The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

The Independent UK · Mar 13