She was asleep at home. A license plate camera put her in jail for 13 days, facing 145 years.

September 21, 2026

By Kim Komando

Lindsey Isaacs went to the store, drove home in Palm Coast, Fla., and went to bed. At 4:45 a.m., troopers were in her bedroom telling her she’d killed three people.

Her parents got there next. Police had told them their daughter was in a fatal crash. They drove two hours thinking she was dead.

I talked with Lindsey on the show this weekend. The camera that started this has a twin on a pole near you. I drove past 10 of them on the way to the studio last week. I counted.

📸 How a camera became a case

Oct. 4, 2025, 9:53 p.m. A hit-and-run on I-4 near DeBary killed a motorcyclist, a Flagler County official and his wife. Witnesses reported a Dodge Durango.

A Flock license plate camera 3 miles west had logged Lindsey’s black Durango two minutes earlier. That was the whole case.

What authorities had and didn’t use: Witnesses said the vehicle was maroon. Maroon paint was on the wreck. Callers to 911 read off a partial plate, 458. Not Lindsey’s. Not close. 

Her Durango was 2 months old with zero scratches. Troopers told her it had “significant damage.”

She was standing next to it. “I asked the trooper, where’s the damage? Because I don’t see any damage,” she told me. “She said I wasn’t allowed to look at the car.”

They impounded it. It sat in a lot for seven months. Nobody inspected it.

⛓️ 13 days

In February, Lindsey sued to get her car back. Six weeks later, April 17, they arrested her. Eight felonies. She was told she faced 145 years.

Maximum security. Her mugshot played on the jail TV. “People saw it and in their minds thought I was in there for the murder of three,” she said. She couldn’t eat or sleep. She fractured her knee on a bunk.

April 22, a judge denied bond. April 28, her attorney Patrick McGeehan showed the state photos of the undamaged car. An inspection team found a showroom-condition Durango. Lindsey was out the next day. Charges dropped in May. Police later arrested a woman in a maroon Durango.

The state apologized to her in a private meeting in Tallahassee. Nothing public.

Lindsey is 24. She lost her job at Hallmark. She has panic attacks daily.

Let me be clear. I respect our police officers. But this wasn’t the camera’s fault. It logged a black Durango, which is all it does. Everything that cleared her sat there for seven months. Nobody looked. That’s crappy police work, and she paid for it.

She’s not suing Flock. She’s suing the troopers.

📺 Watch my full interview with Lindsey here: [YouTube link]