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The United States Capitol Police revealed new details on Tuesday
alleging Stephen Colbert's staffers repeatedly disobeyed instructions
from Capitol police officers prior to their arrest.

The news came one day after the U.S. Attorney's office declined to
charge the staffers, whom the Capitol police referred to as the
"Colbert Nine."

What are the details?
Capitol police Chief J. Thomas Manger explained in a letter the
production crew was arrested in the Longworth House Office Building
after a staffer for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) secured his office and
called the USCP emergency phone number to report a disturbance outside
the office next to Bowman's.

That office belonged to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

"Do you remember me? Do you remember me?" a man with the production
crew reportedly shouted outside Boebert's door. "It’s me. We’re going
to leave something under your door."

A member of the production crew told responding officers they were
credentialed press. However, none of the production crew had
congressional press identification, neither were they accompanied by a congressional staff member, Manger explained. The group needed both to
be in the building.

Even worse, the group had already been escorted out of different
building, the Cannon House Office Building, earlier in the day when a
Capitol police officer stopped the group for not having press
credentials or a staff escort.

When officers confronted the production crew, group leader Jake
Plunkett told officers they were in the building to film comedy skits
for Colbert's show. They had planned to film outside the offices House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
and Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga). The crew admitted they were
"pretending to leave notes" under the office doors, but did not
actually leave any.

"The note was allegedly an invitation to a cocaine orgy," Manger wrote.

Prior to the incident, the production crew applied for press
credentials, but were denied. Plunkett, according to Manger, declined
to appeal the decision because "he knew [the production crew] would not
qualify qualify as press."

What about the DOJ's decision?
Manger condemned the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for not criminally charging the production crew despite the ample evidence
showing they broke the law.

"It is unfortunate that despite all of the evidence the Department
presented, including that the group or its leader had been told several
times that they could not be in the buildings without an escort, that
the U.S. Attorney’s office declined to prosecute any members of the
group for Unlawful Entry," Manger said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia released a
statement on Monday claiming prosecutors were not moving forward with
the case because the evidence was not enough to secure convictions.

Manger's letter, however, calls into question that decision because the evidence shows the production crew knew they were not supposed to be
inside the office building and even allegedly lied about being
credentialed press.

TheBlaze has reached out to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District
of Columbia seeking a response to Manger's letter.

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