'Late Show' Staff Arrested At U.S. Capitol Won't Face Charges: Police

WASHINGTON, DC — Federal officials on Monday said they won't prosecute nine staff members of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" after they were arrested last month while filming at the U.S. Capitol Complex.

The staff members were arrested on June 16 while filming a segment featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog in a hallway of the Longworth House Office Building, the New York Times reported.

Police arrested the group for unlawful entry, according to a statement from Capitol police.

"...Members of the group had been told several times before they entered the Congressional buildings that they had to remain with a staff escort inside the buildings and they failed to do so," a statement from police said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia declined to prosecute the group because the case wasn’t strong enough, the Times reported.

"We respect the decision that office has made," police said in a statement.

The production team for "The Late Show" had scheduled interviews on Capitol Hill that were “authorized and pre-arranged through Congressional aides of the members interviewed, a spokesperson for CBS said in an email to NBC News one day after the arrest.

Police were called to the Longworth House Office Building for a disturbance. When officers arrived, they found the group "unescorted and without Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway," NBC News reported.