Innocent woman sues after identity theft leads to jailing, strip search

[RandiFan1290]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/innocent-woman-sues-after-identity-theft-leads-to-900829.html


Kimberly Shields, a 23-year-old manicurist from Winter Park, was in tears. She was locked up in the Seminole County Jail, strip searched, deloused, and she had no business being there.

A small-time thief with a cocaine addiction had stolen her identity, stolen a car, then confused authorities in Charlotte County, who issued an arrest warrant that landed Shields in jail in Sanford in 2002.

She kept telling jailers they had the wrong person. They checked, found a photo of the real thief, acknowledged that she was the wrong person but still held her for several more hours.

How much longer is in dispute. It was at least an additional 24 hours, if you believe Shields, Seminole Sheriff's Office fax records and phone records from Charlotte County.

[pleah]

1. K&R

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Why do your police and penal services employ so many androids, barely-

emergent hominids? I mean, even the poorest education wouldn't explain it.