JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is responding after Action News Jax showed how the department used AI to help identify a suspect in a grand theft case, but the technology and two eye witnesses ended up picking the wrong guy. We’ve teamed up with our sister station, WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, for this story and they spoke in person with Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte man whose life was turned upside down in this case of high-tech mistaken identity. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< “And I sat in there for over 50 days in the most worst jail ever,” Richardson said, speaking about the Duval County Jail. Action News Jax first told you last week how Richardson spent months in jail after a man in Jacksonville contacted authorities when he tried to register his new car only to find out it had been stolen. So JSO used surveillance video from the parking lot where the exchange happened. RELATED: Charlotte father of 10 says Jacksonville police AI misidentification cost him his freedom, home, job According to court documents, the victim said the seller also gave him a fake Georgia ID. A JSO investigator then used AI to try and match a suspect to the video and the ID. The facial recognition system matched the evidence with 85% accuracy to Richardson. “There was no proper investigation done, um, to even reach out to me or to see if I was even in Florida,” Richardson said. We asked JSO a series of questions about the case, including whether an 85% match is sufficient for investigators to pursue a lead. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] They’re still working on getting us that answer, but sent the following statement to us: “The investigating patrol officer