Woman jailed for nearly 6 months after facial-recognition lead seeks $10 million
A Tennessee woman who spent nearly six months behind bars after facial-recognition technology helped wrongly identify her as a suspect in a North Dakota bank fraud case is suing the City of Fargo and a police detective for $10 million. Angela Lipps, 50, alleges police failed to properly investigate a facial-recognition lead before obtaining a warrant that resulted in her arrest in July 2025. Get…
Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee woman, is suing the City of Fargo and police detective Lucas Heck for $10 million after she spent nearly six months in jail due to a wrongful facial-recognition identification. Lipps alleges that police failed to properly investigate the facial-recognition lead before obtaining a warrant that led to her arrest in July 2025.
The charges were eventually dropped after evidence showed she was in Tennessee when the alleged crimes occurred. Lipps claims that she had never been to North Dakota before her arrest and that the facial-recognition technology made significant differences in identifying her compared to a suspect in bank surveillance footage.
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