{"id":275767,"date":"2025-11-06T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:38:09","slug":"jury-acquits-d-c-sandwich-guy-charged-with-chucking-a-sub-at-a-federal-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275767\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury acquits D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department’s case against “sandwich guy,” the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty on Thursday after several hours of deliberations. <\/p>\n

The jury \u2014 which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches \u2014 deliberated the charges for several hours on Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict.<\/p>\n

Sean Dunn, a former Justice Department paralegal, faced a single misdemeanor count after a federal grand jury rejected more serious charges<\/a> over the incident, which took place in the nightlife area of U Street in August. <\/p>\n

Border Patrol Officer Greg Lairmore received two “gag gifts” related to the incident \u2014 a plush sandwich and a patch featuring a cartoon of Dunn throwing the sandwich with the words \u201cFelony Footlong\u201d \u2014 which the defense team argued showed this was not a serious event in his life.<\/p>\n

Lairmore had testified that the sandwich \u201cexploded all over\u201d his chest and claimed he could smell mustard and onions. But a photo showed that the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after it hit Lairmore in his bulletproof vest.<\/p>\n

Images of Dunn became a symbol of resistance to the Trump administration in Washington, with murals popping up on walls depicting a man throwing a sandwich, and with people placing sandwiches in the hands of giant skeletons for Halloween.<\/p>\n

\"MuralArt work depicting former DOJ employee Sean Charles Dunn is displayed against a restaurant wall on Aug. 17, in Washington, D.C.Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Grand jurors in Washington have rejected several cases against defendants that were brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which under the Trump administration has been run by two Trump loyalists: first Ed Martin and now Jeanine Pirro. <\/p>\n

In closing arguments, defense attorney Sabrina Shroff argued that a sandwich could not and did not cause harm. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis case, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is about a sandwich,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department’s case against “sandwich guy,” the D.C. resident who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-275767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}