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Posted on 03/14/2026 9:39:10 AM PDT by CFW
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months behind bars in North Dakota, a state she had never even stepped foot in, after being wrongfully identified by AI facial recognition technology in a bank fraud investigation.
The Grand Forks Herald reports that Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old mother of three... from Tennessee, found herself trapped in a nightmare that began last July when U.S. Marshals arrested her at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. Fargo police had used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in an organized bank fraud case, despite the fact that she had never set foot in ND.
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The case began in April and May 2025 when Fargo Police Department detectives investigated several bank fraud incidents. Surveillance footage captured a woman using a fraudulent U.S.Army military identification card to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from local banks. To identify the suspect, investigators employed facial recognition software, which incorrectly matched the woman in the videos to Lipps.
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The bank records proved conclusive. They showed that Lipps was in Tennessee, more than 1,200 miles away, during the times police claimed she was committing fraud in Fargo. The records documented routine transactions including Social Security check deposits, cigarette purchases at gas stations, pizza purchases, and Uber Eats orders through a cash app.
Fargo police finally interviewed Lipps for the first time on December 19, meeting with her and Greenwood at the Cass County jail. By that point, she had already spent more than five months incarcerated. Five days later, on Christmas Eve, prosecutors dismissed the case and released Lipps from custody.
However, her ordeal was far from over. Released in clothing inadequate for ND’s freezing temperatures, Lipps found herself stranded more than a thousand miles from home with no means to return.
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Fargo LEOs should have to pay for such sloppy investigating.
We can’t even put the Clintons, Fauci, Christopher Wray, and any democrat in jail for their treason. But we can unlawfully target innocent grandmothers. “Land of the ________, home of the Slave.
She needs to sue the living daylights out of em
If AI makes an obvious weird mistake or conclusion, we have to have smart enough people reviewing it to determine its an error and avoid an idiotic ahd unjust outcome. Common sense and simple logic (ie said person was never there) needs to override this kind of thing. Sadly there isn’t a lot of common sense around anymore. Especially not in government, which has always suffered from a lack of it.
“Fargo LEOs should have to pay for such sloppy investigating.”
This is not the darkside of AI. It is the darkside of incompetence.
Things are going exactly as I predicted. People accept AI unconditionally. People who use AI and the computer are too stupid to see that they have abandoned their mind’s power of reasoning entirely and given the AI power over them.
This will only get worse and AI will be used more and more and be given power over our lives. Mistakes will be made and people will get hurt and there will be no recourse.
The computer will have taken over our lives because we have allowed it to.
Government has too much power over people. Power corrupts.
The people who did this to her deserve life in prison at hard labor.
Agreed.
The job of the software is to winnow down the pile of pictures to a manageable amount.
It is then the job of humans to look at them and decide.
Apparently the second part was skipped.
This BTW has happened before. Check your work. Especially check your work if your being wrong is going to have major consequences for someone else. Check other people's work as well because, they could be wrong. It is not insulting them to do that. Mistakes are normal. And are caught by cross checking.
I foresee a massive lawsuit and a quick settlement by the Fargo PD......and rightfully so. They should have to pay dearly for the harm they caused after negligently failing to investigate for 5 months while this poor lady was incarcerated based on just AI facial recognition when anybody examining her bank records would have thrown up a huge red flag within minutes of looking at them.
Microsoft’s AI will do everything for you pay bills buy stuff etc etc , no need to be anywhere near your computer , credit cards or bank accounts sounds dangerous ,LOL
Something is strange.
Mayor Tim Mahoney:
“…However, the comments I can make at this time are limited due to the ongoing bank fraud investigation.”
“What I can say is that the issuance of an arrest warrant for Ms. Lipps indicates that a court determined probable cause existed for the charges. While the charges were later dismissed without prejudice, that procedural step simply means the charges may be re-filed if additional investigation supports doing so. The Fargo Police Department continues to actively investigate this matter and continues to follow the criminal justice process.”
“The investigation remains ongoing with respect to all individuals involved. Because the case is still open and active, I am not providing additional comment at this time to avoid compromising the investigation.”
‘Zactly.
“Microsoft’s AI will do everything for you pay bills buy stuff etc etc , no need to be anywhere near your computer , credit cards or bank accounts sounds dangerous ,LOL”
Weird...
This also happened in Reno, Nev. when a customer at the Peppermill casino was flagged by AI as someone who had been banned from the facility. Despite having several forms of ID, the cops believed the computer, arrested him for trespassing, and held him for hours in ill-fitting handcuffs that injured him. He sued the Peppermill and settled, and he’s now suing the cop in federal court on a civil rights rap.
There would have to be an extradition hearing and judicial order before she could be removed from Tennessee.
There would be federal law enforcement involvement since two states are involved.
It is almost impossible to NOT be video taped every day in 2026 USA.
What did her court appointed lawyers do or not do to screw it up so badly?
Yes.
This may be the arrest you refer.
It is documented on video cam.
Most likely very important to view.
Title: “When AI Gets an Innocent Man Arrested”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M4F_U1eEw
Content:
“In today’s body camera video, we’re covering the arrest of Jason Killinger.
We are a news agency dedicated to delivering factual reporting on criminal investigations, public safety, and law enforcement procedures.
This video is a documentary intended to inform and educate viewers about real events of public concern.
It was produced for journalistic and educational purposes, and is presented in the public interest.”
Seventeen minutes.
While that’s true for most people, a lot of people live such isolated lives that they can go months without ever being on anyone’s video cam, and may go their entire lives without being isdentified by name from them. Especially caregivers, the elderly, loners, poor, and so on. If you don’t have money or time to shop you almost never enter an establishment that has a camera.
Unfortunately they are also the same people who have no one to back up their alibis.
Been there, done that.
Yes, the humans failed badly in this case. But this also shows the limitations of AI and overreliance on it.
“There would be federal law enforcement involvement since two states are involved.”
Nope.
“And yet, AI-maximalists are always telling us how superior AI is and how it will do a better job than humans. So why should humans have to review the work of “superior” AI?”
Lots of cases of human ‘mistaken identities’.
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