AI Error Jails Innocent Grandmother for Months in North Dakota Fraud Case

Defense attorney speaks out on Tennessee woman held in jail for nearly six months for a crime she did not commit

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — An attorney who represented a Tennessee woman who spent nearly six months in jail says this should never have happened. 50-year-old Angela Lipps was held after authorities mistook her as the person involved in a Fargo fraud investigation. Lipps claims she has lived in north-central Tennessee her entire life and never set foot in North Dakota. Jay Greenwood, the defense attorney, looked into her bank records during the time s…

Tennessee Woman Spends Months in Jail; Falsely Accused of Fraud

FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – A Fargo defense attorney who works as a public defender calls it “unjust.” Jay Greenwood says he was appointed to represent 60-year-old Angela Lipps of Tennessee who Fargo police identified as a suspect in an ongoing bank fraud investigation last fall. Greenwood says Lipps, who has no ties to Fargo and had never been to North Dakota, was classified as a suspect in the investigation based on artificial intelligence facial rec…

AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.

AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case

FARGO — A grandmother from Tennessee is working to get her life back, after what she says was a case of mistaken identity, linked to North Dakota, that nearly cost her everything. Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail, after Fargo police connected her to a bank fraud case in the metro. It's a crime she says she didn't commit. In fact, she said she's never been to North Dakota. Lipps, 50, is the mother of three grown children and has five…