Amanda Smith was arrested in Pennsylvania on a warrant from Arkansas and jailed for three nights after a scammer used a Cash App account opened in her name, with her Social Security number and birth date, to swindle someone out of $1,000. She was extradited, fingerprinted, and hit with $70,000 in combined bail, and now faces up to six years in prison on charges including computer fraud, despite saying she has never used Cash App. Cash App initially would not share account details with her because she could not prove ownership of an account she says was never hers; she eventually obtained records through court discovery.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-22
A 50-year-old woman named Lipps was arrested at gunpoint by US Marshals in Tennessee while babysitting four children, after facial recognition software wrongly identified her as a fugitive wanted in North Dakota. She spent six months in jail in Tennessee before the mistake was corrected, and she is now suing the city of Fargo and the detective involved for $10 million.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-17
Lindsey Brooke Isaacs, 23, spent nearly two weeks jailed in Florida on eight felony charges, including three counts of vehicular homicide, after investigators tied her Dodge Durango to a fatal hit-and-run using Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader network. The case relied heavily on a single ALPR sighting placing her vehicle miles from the crash scene, despite evidence including witness accounts and vehicle residue pointing to a maroon vehicle, not matching her car's actual details.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-15
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