A woman has filed a complaint to sue the United States Marshals Service (USMS) after a case of mistaken identity when she was arrested at her Phoenix home last year.
Penny McCarthy, 66, was at home after work on March 5, 2024, when she says three unmarked white vans pulled up to her driveway and began shrieking that they had a warrant out for her arrest. In a body-cam video of the incident, USMS officers can be heard asking McCarthy to put her hands behind her back and look away.
McCarthy’s attorneys, however, claim that USMS did not have a warrant for her arrest but rather a 25-year-old warrant from an Oklahoma court for someone named Carole Anne Rozak. The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm that works to safeguard the Fourth Amendment and is identified as one of McCarthy’s attorneys on the complaint, claims she has no connection to Rozak and has never had one…