Karen Maloof spent a year learning to play golf in anticipation of a trip to Ireland with her husband. But as they sat at the gate at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta for their flight to Europe in May 2023, she was met by armed federal agents and police dogs.
Unbeknownst to her, she had a warrant out for her arrest for stealing a U-Haul in Palm Bay, Florida . The problem? She had not stolen a U-Haul, nor had she even been to Palm Bay. Nonetheless, she says, cops paraded her through the airport in handcuffs and threw her into a Clayton County Jail, where she spent three days in a cell with meth addicts and confused as to why she was there.
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