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AI Error Jails Innocent Grandmother for Months in North Dakota Fraud Case
Angela Lipps was jailed for nearly six months due to a facial-recognition error despite bank records proving she was 1,200 miles away, Fargo police said the investigation continues.
- On July 14, U.S. Marshals arrested Angela Lipps at her north-central Tennessee home, booking her as a North Dakota fugitive after taking her at gunpoint while babysitting four children; the case was dismissed five days after Fargo police interviewed her and she was released.
- Fargo Police Department used facial-recognition software in April–May 2025 to identify Angela Lipps, with a detective matching her social media and Tennessee driver's license photo.
- Her bank records showed she was more than 1,200 miles away, and Jay Greenwood met Fargo police at the Cass County jail on Dec. 19, to address the discrepancy.
- Unable to pay bills from jail, Angela Lipps lost her home, car and dog, while Fargo police say the bank-fraud investigation remains open and no officer spoke with her during five months in jail.
- On March 11, WDAY News raised the case at Zibolski's retirement press conference, noting North Dakota officers did not pick up Lipps until Oct. 30, and Lipps said, 'It was so scary, I can still see it in my head, over and over again'.
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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…
Duluth News Tribune
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…
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