A 51-year-old Kissimmee woman was thrown in jail for nine days all because of a case of mistaken identity. She went to the police station to get fingerprinted for a new job and that's when her troubles started...
Carrasquillo spent nine days in the county jail before someone at the Kissimmee Police Department checked the identity of the New York suspect and realized they didn't match.
This reminds me of something that happened to my family several years ago. Our car was stolen in the middle of the night. We filed the appropriate police and insurance reports. After a few weeks, it was all but certain we'd never see the car again, so we went and bought a new one. It was an economy model and we didn't want monthly payments, so we bought it outright from our savings and the insurance settlement check. That afternoon we got a call from the cops--they found our car. Three blocks away. Essentially undamaged. With three parking violation tickets on it's windshield from the same police department investigating the theft.
You wouldn't believe the time and convolutions we had to go through to get those tickets rescinded, because that involved yet a third department. Naturally, the insurance company wanted its money back. And now we had three cars while only needing two, and a much smaller savings account.
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