The House Judiciary Committee has written a letter to the Inspector General of the Department of Justice urging him to launch a review of the wrongful arrest of a 66-year-old woman in Phoenix by the US Marshals Service (USMS).
The letter comes after months of ABC15 reporting on the incident where USMS officials say they believed the woman they arrested was a woman wanted for an outstanding warrant from 1999.
Penny McCarthy, 66, was originally set to have an identity hearing in a federal court where she was going to have to prove she wasn’t an accused criminal in Oklahoma who had violated her parole. After ABC15 reporting, a motion was filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to drop the case…