wow, how does this even happen? I have a very brief story here that relates...
One night I did not take my pocketbook to drop off a movie across from where I live at one of those red box things. A cop pulls me over because a headlight was out (which I didn't know at the time). Because I didn't have my purse I did not have my DL, but he took my name and the DL number I gave him (I have mine memorized,what can I say, I love numbers) and came back to the car saying that there was a woman by my same first middle and last name, same height hair/eye color, that has a warrant out for her arrest. He said we could clear this up if I accompanied him down to the police station and have my prints ran and compared to hers. Luckily when I got to the police station one of the clerks knew the other girl with my name and said no, this isn't her so the guy took me back to my car. Now, I can't imagine how long it would take to run the prints but i'm wondering, why was her prints not ran to determine if this was her? Did the other woman not have prints in the system? was the woman not allowed to call someone to bring an ID that would show she was, in fact, not the person the police were looking for? This is such a strange story and I hope that the woman get's some kind of money to try and fix this wrong. I couldn't imagine having to spend 50+ days in jail, on top of having my vehicle stolen.