The initial 911 call was concerning enough: A man was racing home from work, he said, because his wife had just told him a stranger had forced himself into their apartment. A moment later the caller said his wife had just sent him a photo of the intruder on their sofa.

Officers from the Montgomery County Police Department in suburban Maryland raced to the scene. The first one arrived at the same time as the panicked husband. They hurried inside.

But there was no intruder.

Just the wife, police now say, casually sitting on the sofa, next to a cellphone that was mounted on a tripod and facing the door – all part of a prank that escalated and ended with Moesha Gardener’s arrest. Police say she created the photo of the stranger in their apartment using artificial intelligence.

The case und

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