FARGO, N.D. – The Fargo City Commission will meet in executive session at 4:30 PM on Monday, March 16 to receive advice from the city attorney on possible civil or criminal litigation involving Angela Lipps.
The grandmother from Elizabethton, Tennessee says U.S. Marshals arrested her at gunpoint on July 14, 2025, while she was babysitting four children. She said investigators used facial recognition software to match her to surveillance footage from a Fargo bank fraud case.
Lipps said she was held in a Tennessee county jail for 108 days with no bail before being transported to North Dakota. After her attorney pulled bank records showing she was in Tennessee at the time of the alleged crimes.
An email from the City of Fargo says the Commission will discuss guidance on the legal risks, strengths, and weaknesses of an action of a public entity which, if held in public, would have an adverse fiscal effect on the entity in regards to a possible legal case involving Lipps.
