Florida news outlets this week are abuzz over the story of a cruise ship passenger mistakenly arrested at Fort Lauderdale's port on a prostitution-related charge.
Paola Londono, 31, of Orlando was taken into custody on Sunday at Port Everglades moments after stepping off an unnamed ship that had returned from a voyage to the Caribbean.
The Orlando Sentinel reports police confused Londono for a 24-year-old woman with the same name wanted in Florida's Osceola County.
Despite her pleas of innocence -- and the fact she looked nothing like the mug shot of the wanted woman -- Londono was kept locked up in a Broward County jail for more than 36 hours, according to the news outlet.
"Our database had two Paola Londonos in the system," Osceola County sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain told the Sentinel. "How the names crossed is going to be something that we will be looking into."
The wrongfully arrested Londono, who was traveling with her husband, had her 9-month-old child taken from her arms when she was arrested, according to a lawyer quoted in the Sentinel.
"It was outrageous," the lawyer says, noting the two Londono's are five inches and 40 pounds different in height and weight. "These two people could not look more different."
