A Milwaukee County Circuit Judge was arrested by the FBI for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant “evading the arrest,” said FBI director Kash Patel, in a social media post, which was later eliminated.
Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested for obstruction charges, according to Patel.
“The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for charges of obstruction, after the evidence of Judge Dugan obstructed an immigration arrest operation last week,” he said since then. “We believe that Judge Dugan intentionally directed federal agents outside the subject to be arrested in his court, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject, an illegal foreigner, evading the arrest.”
Dugan was arrested early Friday at court, confirmed an official of the law to ABC News. The Department of Justice refused to comment more about the position now eliminated from Patel in X.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge, Hannah Dugan, shown during a candidate forum in 2016.
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Flores Ruiz was still arrested a short time later.
“Fortunately, our agents chased the author on foot and he has been in custody since then, but the judge’s obstruction created a greater danger to the public,” Patel said.
Flores Ruiz complaint indicates that an immigration and customs control task force planned to arrest it on April 18 at the Milwaukee County Palace.
“They observed that Flores-Ruiz arrived and entered the courtroom with his lawyer. At some point, Flores-Ruiz apparently learned that Ice Ero was intended to arrest him and fled the building,” says the complaint. “The members of the task force located Flores-Ruiz outside the court and approached him. Flores-Ruiz extended from the members of the task force and finally was arrested at a short distance.”
The account is aligned with the judicial records of the County that show that Flores Ruiz would appear in the Court on April 18 before Dugan for a conference prior to the trial in a case in which he was accused of three minor crimes of abuse of battery/domestic abuse connected to an incident on March 12.
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