A Black man who lives in North Carolina spent nearly three months in jail after Florida police, relying on faulty AI identification, arrested him for stealing a car 400 miles away.
Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte resident, says he has never been to Florida and was surprised when police showed up at his home and arrested him. He spent a month in the Mecklenburg County Jail and then was extradited to Florida, where he spent 50 more days stewing in a jail in Jacksonville while his lawyer tried to prove he had been falsely identified.
Richardson’s arrest came after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) investigated a stolen car purchased in a Publix parking lot on April 2, 2025, WSOC TV reported.
Misidentified By AI Technology
According to court documents, a man in Jacksonville contacted police after he paid $30,000 for the car, tried to register it, and learned that it was stolen. The JSO recovered surveillance video from the parking lot and a copy of the fake Georgia ID the suspect had supplied to the buyer…