By: Ethan Kramer
WEST FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – A West Fargo man set up a GoFundMe for a Tennessee woman who spent more than five months in jail after facial recognition software misidentified her as a suspect in a Fargo bank fraud case.
Angela Lipps, 50, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, said 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.
Lipps said she was held in a Tennessee county jail for 108 days without bail before being taken to North Dakota. Her attorney pulled bank records showing she was in Tennessee at the time of the alleged crimes and on Christmas Eve the charges were dismissed.
