AA just provided ONE NAME?Quote:
Man claims American Airlines wrongfully landed him in jail for weeks
An Arizona man sued American Airlines this week after, he claims, the carrier wrongfully identified him as a suspect in an airport burglary -- leading to his arrest and what he called a harrowing 17-day stint in jail.
Michael Lowe filed his lawsuit on Monday in Tarrant County, Texas, after he says he was arrested last July for a crime he didn't commit.
According to the lawsuit, a duty-free shop at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Tarrant County was burglarized in May 2020. Surveillance footage of the incident showed the culprit was a passenger of American flight 2248, and investigators obtained a search warrant ordering the airline to produce "any and all recorded travel data for all individuals" on that flight, the suit stated.
Instead, Lowe said, American only produced identification for one passenger -- him.
"That was a hasty decision on behalf of American Airlines to offer up one suspect and one suspect only, and without that we wouldn't be talking. This wouldn't have happened," Lowe's attorney, Scott Palmer, told ABC News in a phone interview.
Palmer said his client looks nothing like the man suspected of committing the airport burglary.
Lowe vs suspect
This happens more than most people are comfortable with knowing.Quote:
Lowe was arrested more than a year after the incident while he was in New Mexico -- where he was held in jail for more than two weeks.
"The terror Mr. Lowe experienced while imprisoned in Quay County for the next 17 days was existential," his lawsuit stated. He was made to sleep on the concrete floor and the jail did not have proper COVID-19 protocols, according to the complaint.
He was subsequently released with no explanation, his suit said.
"He shouldn't have been in jail. He didn't commit a crime," Palmer said.
Lowe was subjected to a strip search while he was detained and was told very little information about why he was behind bars, according to his lawsuit.
Beat the rap, but not the ride.
Airport police? Like Park Police? ISD police?Quote:
The detective eventually compared Lowe's mug shot to the suspect surveillance photo from the burglary and realized it was not him, according to the suit.
Palmer told ABC News that, to his knowledge, the actual suspect has still not been caught.
Dallas-Fort Worth airport police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
American Airlines said it was "reviewing the lawsuit."
I hope he wins big.
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But instead of providing the names of all the passengers, according to the lawsuit, the airline "departed from its established procedures" and only gave them one name: Lowe's.
The lawsuit said the airline's alleged decision to only provide one name "involved an extreme degree of risk."
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The lawsuit said felony and misdemeanor arrest warrants were then issued for Lowe as a result of the airline's actions, leading to his arrest more than a year later while he was vacationing in New Mexico on July 4, 2021. L
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