A Texas woman with three grown children was stunned on Christmas Eve in 2022 when law enforcement accused her of being wanted for child endangerment as she disembarked from a Royal Caribbean cruise in Florida that was meant to celebrate her brother beating cancer for the second time. As it turns out, Jennifer Heath Box’s lawsuit against Broward County said that she was the victim of “mistaken identity” because deputies ignored “obvious” discrepancies between her information and the woman — with a similar name and also from Texas — who was actually the subject of the warrant.
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That should pay for the next couple of cruises!
ReplyDeleteYep and for the whole family too.
DeleteDifferent FBI numbers????? How does someone that has never been in trouble with the law have a FBI number and what is a FBI number??? Cause she lives in Texas???
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When you apply for a job that requires a background check, or CCW license. Basically the sa.e reason EVERY police officer has an FBI number and has never been arrested.
DeleteBoward County, again
ReplyDeleteBack in 2002-4 or so, I used to get pulled over every time there was a cop behind me at a stop light. Someone who shared my name but no other characteristics had a warrant for evading arrest. One time I even got the 5 car dog-and-pony show before the sergeant showed up. Never got detained or pulled from the car, though. When they initially came for license and registration, I started telling them that someone with a same name was wanted, please compare the birthdate on my ID when you run it through the system. I was about 15 years too young. That these screws were too officious and lazy to simply use the same computer they were booking her with to look at the file is maddening.
ReplyDeleteHope she gets a million bucks. Or at LEAST enough to get their attention. Cop phuques.
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 80's there was a fellow with the same name as me, almost identical birthdate, same height and eye color. He weighed 140 to my 220 though. How it caused me problems was that the rascal was an escapee from an adjoining county jail. Found out when I got stopped by the cops at 6 am for driving a beater in an affluent neighborhood. Had shaggy hair and a beard, wearing an old field jacket. Luckily my "cousin" had some tattoos that I could show I didn't have. He was still in the system as a parole violator in 2008. Michigan has pistol registration so when I got into handguns in the late 90's I would have to go to the Cop shop for purchase permits then "Safety inspections" for every purchase until I got my CCW. Every interaction with the cops was to some extent complicated by this guy being in the system.
ReplyDeleteYou think that's bad, there's a city politician in Ceres that has my name and we were both born in the same hospital within a month of each other. I've had the cops called on me a couple times by people who claimed I was trying to pass myself off as him. The cops always laughed when I showed them my ID and asked them just who in the fuck would want to impersonate a politician?
DeleteYeah, "similar name"? AFAIK, if the name was misspelled on the warrant, it's invalid anyway. So even if she WAS the person that was intended to be named, they couldn't/shouldn't have arrested her. Because the warrant's not valid.
ReplyDeleteJohn G.