PHOENIX — Newly released federal court audio raises more questions about what led U.S. Marshals to make a major mistake and falsely arrest a 66-year-old woman at gunpoint outside her Phoenix home.
Arizona woman claims wild case of mistaken identity put her in federal prison During her initial court hearing recently obtained by ABC15, the federal prosecutor admitted to the judge the evidence he had at the time from U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma was, “not sufficient to go forward with a hearing.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Rapp responded, “That's a fair question. Um, and one I had ... is that I've been provided some documents, um, some open-source documents that suggest that the person that they found was Carole Anne Rozak.”
“I want to see what you arrested me with, other than my Facebook picture and the fact that at one point in time, my last name was Burns,” McCarthy told ABC15. As we’ve previously reported, McCarthy was fingerprinted when federal officers first took her into custody in Arizona.