Pay Up: 46-Year-Old Mother From Atlanta Locked Up For 2 Months Because She Had The Same!

"An Atlanta woman is trying to get her life back
together after she was mistakenly put behind bars
for nearly two months.

In a sequence of events that Teresa Culpepper’s
attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, calls “crazy,”
officers arrested Culpepper after she reported her
truck missing. Police thought she was another
Teresa who was wanted for allegedly pouring
boiling water over her boyfriend’s face.

It took 53 days for the legal system to
acknowledge that Teresa Culpepper wasn’t Teresa
Gilbert.

“She was a black Teresa. That’s all they had in
common,” Merchant told CBS Atlanta. Gilbert is 5-
foot-10 — taller than Culpepper — and has 30
pounds on her. They have different addresses and
birthdays.


It took Culpepper’s public defender to bring in
the alleged victim, who said police arrested the
wrong person" CBS