Ariz grandmother falsely arrested by US marshals at gunpoint: video

Shocking footage shows U.S. marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman they thought had passed her probation 25 years ago, but they got the wrong person and instead targeted a grandmother who had never heard of the suspect.

“I really felt like I had been kidnapped,” Penny McCarthy, 66 he told ABC 15 after the outlet obtained body camera footage of the arrest.

“I am very disappointed with my government. This isn’t funny.

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

A bewildered McCarthy asked them to check if they had the right person, asking them to simply “tell me who I am,” but the officers refused and instead shouted at her to surrender.

“Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. We’ll discuss this later. Turn around. You’re going to get hit,” the officers roared at her.

“Can you prove you are from the police?” McCarthy asked, but officers refused to even provide any identification or a warrant until she allowed herself to be handcuffed, according to the footage.

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

“How can I see this?” she replied.

“If you turn around again, you will be tasered,” the officer warned.

Ultimately, McCarthy allowed officers to detain her, but they insisted she was 70-year-old Carole Anne Rozak, an Oklahoma woman who had given up probation in 1999 after being imprisoned for a series of nonviolent crimes.

Although McCarthy denied being Rozak – and stated she could prove it – US marshals would not allow her to do so and instead took her into custody.

“They have done nothing but treat me like garbage and lie to me,” McCarthy told ABC 15.

She was thrown into federal prison overnight but released the next day after prosecutors presented little evidence beyond “Facebook posts” that an Oklahoma probation officer said showed she was actually Rozak living under an alias.

Her case was dismissed shortly after her release from prison.

U.S. marshals in Oklahoma later said a fingerprinting “error” matched McCarthy to Rozak, and a month after the arrest they confirmed that McCarthy was not their suspect.

The agency previously told ABC 15 it continues a “thorough review” of the arrest and the officer’s actions.

Requests for comment from The Post had not been responded to by press time.

McCarthy said she was traumatized by the incident and didn’t even want to go out in her own backyard without someone she knew nearby.

“US marshals are above the law. That tells me the same thing. And the United States government allows it,” she lamented.