Arizona grandmother falsely arrested by US Marshals at gunpoint: video

Shocking footage shows US Marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman they thought had skipped probation 25 years ago – but they caught the wrong person and instead pointed their guns at a grandmother who had never known the suspect had heard.

“I really felt like I was being kidnapped,” said 66-year-old Penny McCarthy told ABC 15 after the outlet obtained bodycam footage of the arrest.

“I am so disappointed in my government. It’s not funny.”

McCarthy was spending her day at home outside Phoenix on March 5 when a van full of people claiming to be U.S. Marshals stopped and pointed heavy guns in her face, telling her she was under arrest.

Surprised, McCarthy asked them to verify they had the right person — he begged them to just “tell me who I am” — but the officers refused, instead yelling at her to give herself up.

‘Turn away. Turn around. Turn around. We will discuss it later. Turn around. You’re going to get hit,” the officers shouted at her.

“Can you prove that you are the police?” McCarthy asked, but officers refused to even show ID or a warrant until she was handcuffed, the footage showed.

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

“How can I tell?” she replied.

“If you turn around again you will be tased,” an officer warned.

Ultimately, McCarthy allowed the officers to detain her, and they insisted it was a 70-year-old Oklahoma woman named Carole Anne Rozak, who skipped probation in 1999 after serving time in prison for a series of non-violent crimes.

Although McCarthy denied being Rozak — and said she could prove it — the US Marshals wouldn’t let her 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 in federal prison overnight but released the next day after prosecutors presented little evidence other than “Facebook posts” that led an Oklahoma probation office to believe she was actually Rozak and living under an alias.

Her case was dismissed shortly after she was released from prison.

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

The agency previously told ABC 15 that they were continuing to “conduct a thorough investigation” into the arrest and the officer’s actions.

Requests for comment from The Post had not been returned at time of publication.

McCarthy said she is traumatized by the event and is unwilling to even go to her own front yard without someone she knows nearby.

“The United States Marshals are above the law. That’s what it says to me. And the United States government is allowing that to happen,” she lamented.