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AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

A grandmother of three sat in jail for nearly six months after cops using an AI facial recognition tool identified her as a suspect.
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An AI system’s little oopsie, and a police department’s staggering incompetence, landed an innocent grandma in jail.

Harrowing reporting by North Dakota radio station WDAY details how the 50-year-old Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in the clink after Fargo cops using an AI facial recognition tool flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in the state.

The mother of three — and grandmother of five — says she’s lived her entire life in north-central Tennessee, roughly a thousand miles away from where the crimes she was accused of committing took place. US marshals showed up at her doorstep last July while she was babysitting four kids and arrested her at gunpoint.

First, Lipps was booked in a Tennessee county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. And because she was considered a fugitive, she was held without bail and sat in the jail for nearly four initial months. Lipps received a court-appointed lawyer for the extradition process, WDAY reported, and was told she’d have to travel to North Dakota to fight the charges.

“I’ve never been to North Dakota, I don’t know anyone from North Dakota,” Lipps told the station.

According to Fargo police department files obtained by WDAY, the error arose from surveillance footage detectives viewed while investigating bank fraud cases in April and May 2025. The footage shows a woman using a fake US Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars.

To generate leads, the detectives turned to AI facial recognition software, which identified Lipps as the person in the video.

The cops seemingly did little to verify the AI’s lead. Court documents showed that a detective agreed that the suspect’s facial features, body type, and hair were a match to Lipps. But Lipps said that no one from the Fargo police department ever called to question her.

Adding insult to injury, the Fargo police didn’t pick up Lipps from her Tennessee jail until 108 days after her arrest, after which she was flown to North Dakota to make a court appearance. The first time they interviewed her was in December, when she was being held in the North Dakota lock-up, after she had spent more than five months behind bars.

“If the only thing you have is facial recognition, I might want to dig a little deeper,” Jay Greenwood, a lawyer representing Lipps in North Dakota, told WDAY.

Greenwood produced bank records showing that Lipps was more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee at the time that investigators say the bank fraud was perpetrated. With Greenwood having essentially done their jobs for them, the police released her from jail on Christmas Eve, and dropped the case.

But Lipps says that the police didn’t even offer to pay for her trip home, and with no money to her name, she was stranded in Fargo. Sympathetic local defense attorneys pooled together money to pay for a hotel room, and a local nonprofit called the F5 Project arranged her trip back to Tennessee.

“I had my summer clothes on, no coat, it was so cold outside, snow on the ground, scared, I wanted out but I didn’t know what I was going to do, how I was going to get home,” Lipps said.

Lipps says she lost her home, her car, and her dog as a result of her stint in jail. No one from the Fargo police department has apologized for the disastrous mix-up, she said.

This isn’t the only criminal case of mistake identity caused by AI tools. In April last year, the New York Police Department arrested a man named Trevis Williams based on a facial recognition match from grainy CCTV footage — despite Williams being over half a foot taller than the suspect in the video. That February, a woman in Detroit sued the city’s police department, alleging that it arrested her after a facial recognition tool identified her as a murder suspect, despite similarly blatant discrepancies in her physical appearance.
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Boyle is a beast! One of the more dominating paths I’ve watched. Was so far superior than anybody else. He’s going to look good in the S&G! He will have an opportunity to wrestle the “little” Feister brother next year too assuming the schools stay in the same division.

Feister bulldozed his way to the D2 285 title. It got a little weird at the end. Sounded like the crowd was booing him as soon as he won for some reason (crying about how big he is as a sophomore most likely) and he grabbed his balls and gave the peace sign. Couple things: let’s get the obvious out of the way. Grabbing your nuts to the crowd was not a good move. He’ll learn that lesson real quick. Secondly, anybody booing a barely 17 year old kid after a hard fought match where it looked like he got hurt is weak sauce regardless of how you feel about him (or his brother).

The kid dominated his way to the ship. Give credit where and when it’s due. And like I said above, all the boo birds that were in the crowd who were hoping he would lose will get to see a great match next year when Boyle bumps up a weight class.
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

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Yeah, other than Gayle and Okpara, both of whom I believe left for more NIL elsewhere, I don't think any of those guys would have noticeably improved the Buckeyes on the court this season. Meechie obviously disliked his role at OSU and was not enthused about playing off the ball, and I think his play here suffered as a result.
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2025-2026 College Basketball General Discussion

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Alabama's Aden Holloway arrested, facing felony marijuana charges

Alabama's Aden Holloway was arrested, released from jail on bond and will face felony marijuana charges. The Crimson Tide open the NCAA tournament vs. Hofstra on Friday.
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Alabama's Aden Holloway arrested, facing felony marijuana charges​

Alabama star Aden Holloway was arrested Monday -- four days before the Crimson Tide begin play in the NCAA tournament -- and will face two felony drug charges, Tuscaloosa County police said.

Tuscaloosa County police spokesperson Stephanie Taylor said Holloway was arrested Monday morning and transported to the county jail after agents with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force searched a residence near Alabama's campus and "recovered more than a pound of marijuana, paraphernalia and cash."

Police said Holloway will be charged with first-degree possession of marijuana-not for personal use, which is a Class C felony, and failure to affix a tax stamp, also a felony. His bond was set at $5,000, and he was released from jail at 10:45 a.m. local time.

Per Alabama law, the possession charge can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail and a fine of $15,000.

Alabama star Aden Holloway was arrested Monday -- four days before the Crimson Tide begin play in the NCAA tournament -- and will face two felony drug charges, Tuscaloosa County police said.

Tuscaloosa County police spokesperson Stephanie Taylor said Holloway was arrested Monday morning and transported to the county jail after agents with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force searched a residence near Alabama's campus and "recovered more than a pound of marijuana, paraphernalia and cash."

Police said Holloway will be charged with first-degree possession of marijuana-not for personal use, which is a Class C felony, and failure to affix a tax stamp, also a felony. His bond was set at $5,000, and he was released from jail at 10:45 a.m. local time.

Per Alabama law, the possession charge can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail and a fine of $15,000.

Just sayin': If you are going to use marijuana maybe you should have looked into transferring to a school in a state where it is legal.
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Four Former Ohio State Players Will Play in 2026 NCAA Tournament

In addition to the current Buckeyes, this year’s NCAA Tournament will also feature four Ohio State transfers: Roddy Gayle Jr., Felix Okpara, Evan Mahaffey and Bowen Hardman.
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Four Former Ohio State Players Will Play in 2026 NCAA Tournament​

Michigan G Roddy Gayle Jr.​

It’s unlikely many Ohio State fans have forgotten about Gayle, considering where he transferred. They won’t be rooting for Gayle for the same reason, but the former Buckeye has a real chance to win a national championship in his final season of college basketball.

Gayle’s role has decreased a bit in his second season at Michigan, as he’s started just one game this year, but he’s still been a key player in the backcourt rotation for the Wolverines, who earned the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region with a 31-3 record. They enter the NCAA Tournament with the second-best odds (+370) to win the national championship.

A senior who played two years at Ohio State before transferring up north, Gayle is averaging seven points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 0.8 steals per game on 45.1% shooting.

The Wolverines will open NCAA Tournament play at 7:10 p.m. Thursday (CBS) in Buffalo, New York, vs. the winner of the First Four game between No. 16 seeds UMBC and Howard.

Tennessee C Felix Okpara​

Another member of Thornton’s Ohio State recruiting class who left the Buckeyes in 2024 after Chris Holtmann’s firing, Okpara helped lead Tennessee to a 22-11 record this season and the No. 6 seed in the Midwest Region.

In his second year at Tennessee after two years at Ohio State, Okpara has averaged a career-high 7.7 points per game with 6.2 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per contest. Among all of Ohio State’s transfers in the NCAA Tournament, he’s the one the Buckeyes would most like to still have on their roster, as his size (6-foot-11 and 242 pounds) and defensive presence inside would provide a big boost to an Ohio State frontcourt that faces a daunting potential second-round matchup with No. 1 seed Duke and its superstar power forward, Cameron Boozer.

Instead, Okpara will play in his second straight NCAA Tournament with Tennessee, who’s made each of the last two Elite Eights. The Volunteers will be challenged right out of the gates in this year’s tournament, however, as they’ll play the winner of Wednesday’s First Four game between No. 11 seeds Miami (Ohio) and SMU at 4:25 p.m. Friday (TBS) in Philadelphia.

Akron F Evan Mahaffey and G Bowen Hardman​

The only team in college basketball with two former Buckeyes on its roster is also going dancing after winning the MAC Tournament.

Former Ohio State forward Evan Mahaffey has had a career year in his senior season after transferring to Akron last offseason. He’s started all 34 of the Zips’ games and tallied 10.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game, all career-highs. He earned MAC All-Defensive Team and All-MAC honorable mention status for his regular-season play, and scored 34 points with 21 rebounds, nine assists and six blocks in their three-game run to a conference tournament title.

Bowen Hardman – who, like Gayle and Okpara, transferred from Ohio State in 2024 after two years with the Buckeyes – has also had his best season of college basketball as a senior, averaging career-highs of 7.9 points and 1.6 rebounds on 18.3 minutes per game, including 11 starts. The sharpshooter enters the NCAA Tournament with momentum, having made 18 of his 33 3-point shot attempts for an average of 12.2 points in Akron’s last five games.

Buckeye transfers who didn’t make the tournament​

  • South Carolina G Meechie Johnson Jr.: After transferring from Ohio State to South Carolina for the second time, Johnson led the Gamecocks with career-highs of 17.2 points and 4.3 assists per game this season, but South Carolina went just 13-19 for the season.
  • Memphis C Aaron Bradshaw: Bradshaw, who transferred to his third school in three years after one year at Kentucky and one year at Ohio State, averaged career-highs of 8.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per game for Memphis, but the Tigers also went just 13-19 on the season to fall well short of the NCAA Tournament.
  • Oregon F Sean Stewart: Stewart, who also transferred to his third school in three years after one year at Duke and one year at Ohio State, saw a slight increase in production with a career-high 6.5 points per game for the Ducks to go along with 5.2 rebounds per game. His team went just 12-20, however, and tied for 15th in the Big Ten.
  • Toledo C Austin Parks: Akron’s MAC Tournament win came at Parks’ expense, as Toledo suffered a heartbreaking 79-76 loss to the Zips in the conference championship game. That loss kept the Rockets out of the NCAA Tournament, but it was still a career year for Parks, who started all 34 of Toledo’s games and averaged 10.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.3 blocks per game.
  • Tulane F Scotty Middleton: Middleton, another former Buckeye who played for his third school in three years this season after one year at Ohio State and one year at Seton Hall, had his most productive season of college basketball to date with 6.9 points, four rebounds and 1.2 assists per game for Tulane. The Green Wave ended the season with an 18-15 record and a second-round loss in the American Athletic Conference tournament.
Just sayin': A few of these guys (i.e. Bradshaw, Okpara, Stewart, Gayle, and Meechie) definitely would have given the Buckeyes more depth, height, and/or scoring off the bench; however, I don't think any of them would have started over Thornton, Mobley, Royal, Tilly, and Bynum/Noel.
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