CHICAGO — A grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple who was arrested during a protest outside an ICE facility in Broadview.

31-year-old Ray Collins and his 30-year-old fiancée, Jocelyne Robledo, both of Chicago, were charged with felony assault of a federal officer after alleged interactions with agents outside the west suburban processing center on Sept. 27.

Both Collins and Robledo were accused of carrying loaded handguns. The couple is reportedly licensed to conceal carry and neither displayed nor used the weapons during the protest.

On Wednesday, prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the case, suggesting that bringing it in the first place may have been an overreach.

"The old adage is that a good prosecutor could have a grand jury indictment return against a ham sandwich.

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