US Marshals mistakenly arrest grandmother in Arizona at gunpoint: video

Shocking footage shows US marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman they thought had missed her probation 25 years ago, but they found the wrong person and instead turned their guns on a grandmother who had never heard of the suspect.

“I really felt like I was being ripped off,” Penny McCarthy, 66 told ABC 15 after the publication obtained body camera footage from the arrest.

“I am very disappointed with my government. It’s not funny.”

On March 5, McCarthy was spending the day at her home outside Phoenix when a van full of people posing as U.S. Marshals pulled up and pointed heavy-duty rifles in her face, telling her she was under arrest.

Surprised, McCarthy asked them to check they had the right person, pleading with them to just “tell me who I am,” but the officers refused, instead yelling at her to surrender.

“Turn away. turn around turn away We will discuss this later. turn away You will be hit,” the officers shouted at her.

“Can you prove you’re a police officer?” McCarthy asked, but the officers refused to even show her any ID or warrant until she allowed herself to be handcuffed, as seen in the video.

“You see we are the police,” the officers replied.

“How can I see it?” she answered.

“If you turn around again, you’ll be hit,” the officer warned.

McCarthy eventually allowed officers to take her into custody, insisting she was a 70-year-old Oklahoma woman named Carol Ann Rozak, who had missed her probation in 1999 after being incarcerated for a series of nonviolent crimes.

Although McCarthy denied being Rozak and said she could prove it, U.S. Marshals would not allow her to do so and instead took her into custody.

“They did nothing but treat me like crap and lie to me,” McCarthy told ABC 15.

She was thrown into a federal prison overnight, but was released the next day after prosecutors presented little evidence other than “Facebook posts” that the Oklahoma Probation Service said indicated she was indeed Rozak. who lives under a pseudonym.

Her case was closed shortly after her release from prison.

U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma later said a fingerprint “glitch” matched McCarthy to Rozak, and confirmed a month after the arrest that McCarthy was not their suspect.

The agency previously told ABC 15 they are continuing to “thoroughly review” the arrest and the officer’s actions.

Requests for comment from The Post were not returned at the time of publication.

McCarthy said she was traumatized by the event, not even wanting to go out in her own backyard without someone she knew nearby.

“US Marshals are above the law. That’s what he tells me. And the United States government allows this to happen,” she lamented.