Scottsdale ID mixup jails wrong woman

[Champ]

March 28 - Gina Carr recently became a different kind of victim of identity theft. Instead of having her credit stolen, the 28-year-old Scottsdale medical office worker found herself jailed for another woman's crime.

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She expected a ticket and a fine. What she got were handcuffs and a ride in a squad car.

Before patting her down for weapons, the officer told her she was wanted on a felony warrant for possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, stemming from a traffic stop on Oct. 18, 2000. Though stunned, Carr didn't panic.

"I knew as soon as we got to the police station, they would see from the mug shot it wasn't me."

But the officer who made the traffic stop in 2000 didn't book the suspect into jail - which meant no photograph and no fingerprints to exonerate Carr. The arresting officer, Andrew Parker, also didn't verify the Social Security number the woman gave him - which turned out to be for a 48-year-old woman with a different name.

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[mac1000a]

1. Bummer....