The D.C. man who went viral for allegedly throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer last month was arraigned in federal court Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a federal agent.
Sean Charles Dunn, who’s accused of hurling the hoagie amidst President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington, now faces a jury trial set for early November.
The charge carries up to a year of jail time.
The case is one of several in which prosecutors allege D.C. residents “assaulted” or “impeded” federal agents in the course of their duties during Trump’s crime and immigration crackdown in the nation’s capital. Defense attorneys have said many of these cases are overblown and not worth the court’s time and resources.
A grand jury already declined to indict Dunn on a federal charge of assaulting a federal officer — one of many embarrassing rejections grand juries have delivered to Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News personality who is now Trump’s U.S. Attorney for D.C. The failure to secure an indictment led Pirro’s office to file the misdemeanor charge, which doesn’t need a grand jury’s review.
