The House Judiciary Committee is seeking an investigation into the US Marshals Service over their botched arrest of an Arizona grandmother who was mistaken for a non-violent fugitive and detained in an aggressive, guns-drawn raid, The Post has learned.
Leaders of the House panel sent a letter to the Department of Justice requesting a probe into the arrest of Penny McCarthy, who spent a night in federal prison after agents refused to let her prove her identity during the frightening March 5 ordeal.
“It appears the USMS violated Ms. McCarthy’s constitutional rights during the arrest,” Reps. Jim Jordan (R – OH) and Andy Briggs (R – AZ) wrote in a letter obtained by The Post to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz Monday.
McCarthy, 66, was minding her business outside her Phoenix-area home when a van sped up and unloaded a cadre of heavily armed US Marshals agents who pointed assault rifles at her and demanded that she give herself up.