Arizona woman falsely arrested won’t have to go to court to prove her identity

Jennifer Kovaleski joined the ABC15 Investigators in June 2023, bringing with her a lengthy record of law-changing, viewer-impacting investigations.

PHOENIX — An Arizona federal judge signed an order Monday, dismissing the case against a Valley woman falsely arrested by federal agents and taken to prison.

“The United States does not intend to proceed forward at that hearing, and therefore dismissal of this matter and vacatur of the hearing is in the interest of justice,” says the motion filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The ABC15 Investigators first reported her story after she provided extensive documentation that her name was Penny McCarthy, but said federal agents insisted she was 70-year-old Carole Anne Rozak.According to the federal court paperwork, Rozak – the woman police say is McCarthy, had a checkered past. But her crimes and parole violation date back to the 1990s in Oklahoma.

According to the Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma, Rozak’s digital fingerprints appeared to initially match, but they are still trying to figure out what happened.

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