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Grandmother jailed 108 days after facial recognition got it wrong

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 12, 2026
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Angela Lipps was babysitting four young children at her Tennessee home when U.S. Marshals showed up with guns drawn and arrested her on July 14, 2025. Fargo police had identified her as a bank fraud suspect using AI facial recognition software. The software was wrong.

Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail — classified…

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