Federal prosecutors have once again failed to secure a grand-jury indictment in a case during President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, marking yet another setback for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Attorneys for the defendant, Nathalie Rose Jones, disclosed in a court filing Monday that a grand jury had passed on indicting the Indiana resident for allegedly threatening to kill the president last month.
“A grand jury has now found no probable cause to indict Ms. Jones on the charged offenses,” Jones’ attorneys wrote, noting that “the weight of the evidence” against her is “weak.”
That makes Jones at least the fourth person to avoid an indictment before D.C. grand jurors since Trump declared a crime emergency in the city. Prosecutors had accused the three others of “assaulting” or “impeding” a federal agent during encounters with the police, allegations that defense attorneys told HuffPost appeared overblown.
In one case, three separate grand juries declined to indict a D.C. resident whom prosecutors accused of assaulting an FBI agent during an inmate swap handled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. The woman, Sydney Lori Reid, had been pushed against a wall during the encounter.
