DC grand juries decline indictments in sandwich and Trump threat cases

Federal grand juries in Washington, D.C., have repeatedly declined to return indictments in several high-profile cases brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office this month, including the man accused of hurling a sandwich at a federal agent and a woman charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump, signaling a rare and public rebuke of prosecutors' push for felony charges amid the administration's deployment of federal forces to the capital.

In separate proceedings over the past weeks, grand jurors refused to indict Sean Charles Dunn, who was captured on video on Aug. 10 shouting at a Customs and Border Protection agent and throwing a substyle sandwich at the officer, and Nathalie Rose Jones, arrested on Aug. 16 on allegations she threatened to kill the president in social media posts and in statements to Secret Service agents. Prosecutors also have failed multiple times to secure indictments in other related matters, including the case of Sidney Lori Reid, in which at least three grand juries declined to return an indictment on charges that she assaulted an FBI agent while filming an inmate transfer, and at least one other defendant whose indictment was rejected.