{"id":1509522,"date":"2022-06-09T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509522"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:20:09","slug":"he-says-he-was-misidentified-as-a-burglary-suspect-and-spent-17-days-in-jail-now-hes-suing-american-airlines-for-the-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-says-he-was-misidentified-as-a-burglary-suspect-and-spent-17-days-in-jail-now-hes-suing-american-airlines-for-the-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"He Says He Was Misidentified As A Burglary Suspect And Spent 17 Days In Jail. Now He\u2019s Suing American Airlines For The Mistake."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhe-says-he-was-misidentified-as-a-burglary-suspect-and-spent-17-days-in-jail-now-hes-suing-american-airlines-for-the-mistake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An Arizona man who spent 17 days in jail after being wrongfully arrested for shoplifting is suing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/american-airlines\">American Airlines<\/a>, which incorrectly identified him as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Lowe, 46, of Flagstaff, Arizona, was boarding a flight on May 12, 2020, at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when someone broke into a duty-free store nearby. The burglary suspect was shown on surveillance cameras boarding the same flight as Lowe, his lawsuit says. Police asked American Airlines for a list of passengers, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/arizona-man-wrongfully-arrested-jailed-17-days-due-american-airlines-e-rcna32584\">reported<\/a>, but for some reason the airline only gave them Lowe\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of American\u2019s identification \u2014 or rather, misidentification \u2014 of Mr. Lowe as the culprit, felony and misdemeanor arrest warrants were issued for Mr. Lowe,\u201d Lowe\u2019s attorney Scott Palmer wrote in the lawsuit. \u201cThe consequences of American\u2019s breach of care it owed to Mr. Lowe would prove to be life-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowe said in his lawsuit that he had no idea he had been misidentified by American Airlines until more than a year later when he was on vacation in New Mexico and arrested for a crime he had never heard about and didn\u2019t commit. He had been at a Fourth of July party when police showed up asking partygoers for identification while claiming to be investigating a disturbance. When they ran Lowe\u2019s name through a law enforcement database, they discovered he had multiple outstanding warrants from Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe was held in Quay County Jail, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article262126407.html\">reported<\/a>, for 17 days as the COVID-19 pandemic swelled, in what his lawsuit calls \u201cgrossly unsanitary conditions.\u201d Lowe said the prison did little to handle COVID-19 and didn\u2019t provide adequate medical care. He also accused the prison of making no effort to keep violent suspects away from nonviolent suspects, NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/man-files-lawsuit-against-american-airlines-over-wrongful-arrest\/2987140\/\">reported<\/a>. Lowe is not suing Quay County, however,<\/p>\n<p>Lowe says in his lawsuit that he didn\u2019t even know what crime he had been accused of committing until after he was released from prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of this fact pattern in my life or my career,\u201d Palmer told the outlet. \u201cIf it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until police compared Lowe\u2019s booking mugshot with surveillance images of the airport burglary suspect that they realized \u201cit was obvious that American Airlines had the wrong person, and that Mr. Lowe was not the person responsible for the burglary on May 12, 2020,\u201d according to Lowe\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines spokesman Rob Himler released a statement on Wednesday saying the airline had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs required by law, American cooperates with and responds to court orders for information related to possible criminal activity, and that\u2019s what we did in this instance when we were presented with a search warrant,\u201d Himler said.<\/p>\n<p>Himler did not immediately respond when NBC asked if it was true the airline only gave police Lowe\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer told the outlet that his client decided not to sue the sheriff or police due to higher standards relating to lawsuit against government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe [American Airlines] has liability for the disclosure of Michael as the sole suspect,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cBut for their actions, warrants are never issued for Michael\u2019s arrest.\u00a0American set in motion all of this by singling him out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that his client still suffers from trauma relating to the false identification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Lowe also suffers from nightmares and intrusive thoughts because of his incarceration,\u201d Palmer wrote in the lawsuit. \u201cIt is also harder for Mr. Lowe to fall asleep and stay asleep as the result of both anxiety and depression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona man who spent 17 days in jail after being wrongfully arrested for shoplifting is suing American Airlines, which incorrectly identified him as the suspect. Michael Lowe, 46, of Flagstaff, Arizona, was boarding a flight on May 12, 2020, at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when someone broke into a duty-free store nearby. 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