Texas Police Used Social Media Photos to Issue Arrest Warrant for Robbery Suspect. A Philly Ph.D. Student with a Similar Name Spent a Week In Jail Before Realizing They Had the Wrong Woman.
The Texas District Attorney’s Office has dismissed charges against a Philadelphia woman wrongfully arrested for a robbery they acknowledge she did not commit. The Ph.D. student was held in police custody for a week, even though she and her family could not only prove she was innocent of the crime but that she never traveled…