A woman who was arrested for spitting at a police officer at the National Zoo earlier this month was mistakenly held in jail for a week, even though the Justice Department had decided not to seek pretrial detention, according to court documents and sources who spoke with CBS News.

Kristal Rios Esquivel was arrested Aug. 20, for allegedly trying to enter a restricted staff entrance at a birdhouse at the National Zoo in Northwest Washington, D.C. Prosecutors alleged in charging documents that she spat on a police sergeant while being arrested and also made "physical contact" with an officer's leg.

A D.C. federal judge's order in Rios Esquivel's case reveals a series of errors or failures to follow court directions by federal and D.C. officials after her arrest inadvertently resulted in

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