Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant ‘evade arrest’

A judge of Milwauki County was arrested by the FBI for alleging an unscrupulous immigrant to avoid arrest, federal authorities said.

Judge Hannah Dugan has been charged with two criminal censuses for “impeding and preventing the proceedings in front of a department or agency of the United States” and “concealing an individual to prevent his or her arrest,” according to a criminal complaint sent on Friday.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest earlier on Friday in a social media publication, which was deleted briefly and redirecting.

“Right now, the FBI is arrested by Judge Hannah Duan of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on a preventive charge – after evidence of Judge Duhan, it prevented the immigration arrest operation last week,” Patel said in the new post. “We believe that Judge Dugan deliberately directed federal agents away from the topic that will be arrested in his courtroom, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the topic – an illegal alien – to avoid arrest.”

According to the complaint, Dugan tried to help Flores-Rose, an undocumented immigrant who appeared before her in criminal proceedings, avoids arrest by federal officials from an ice group.

When Judge Dugan learned that ice staff were present in court to arrest Flores-Rose, she became “visibly angry” and said that the situation was “absurd” before leaving the bench and entering her rooms, according to the complaint who quoted witnesses who had talked to the FBI.

Judge Dugan and another unidentified judge then addressed the arrest team in the public corridor, according to the complaint. She was “visibly upset and had confrontation, angry behavior” and asked one of the employees if they were attending a court appeal, the complaint said.

When the employee replies that they were there to arrest the complaint, the complaint claimed that Judge Duan had asked if they had a court order to which the employee replied: “No, I have an administrative order.”

Numerous witnesses cited in the complaint, it is later claimed that Judge Dugan has returned to his courtroom after directing members of the arrest team in the office of the Chief Judge of the Court.

“Then the judge’s deputy saw Judge Dugan get up and hear Judge Dugan say something like” Wait, come with me, “the complaint said. “Although he was advised for the administrative order for Flores-Rose’s arrest, Judge Duan then accompanied Flores-Rose and his council from the courtroom through the” jury door “, leading to a non-public area of ​​the courtroom.”

Later, Judge Dugan returned to the courtroom, witnesses told the complaint, told and told Flores-Rose’s lawyer and an unidentified man to leave through the back of the courtroom.

The DEA agent saw Flores-Rose and his lawyer in the Public Corridor of the Court of Justice and seems to be making efforts to avoid arrest, the complaint said. After being encountered by FBI and DEA agents outside the building, Flores-Rose “turned and sprinted down the street” before it was eventually detained.

Dugan was arrested on Friday morning at the Court of Justice, ABC News has confirmed. The Ministry of Justice declined to comment on the publication of Patel at X.

Dugan appeared in the US District Court for the Eastern district of Wisconsin on Friday on both charges. She was released on her own recognition.

Her lawyer Craig Masttuonono said in court: “Judge Dugan has a heart for all the arrest and believes that this has not been done in the interest of public safety.”

District Court records show that Flores-Rose was ready to appear in court on April 18 in front of Dugan for a preliminary conference in case when he was charged with three battery abuse/home misuse crimes on March 12.

Federal prosecutors claim that Flores-Rose has illegally entered the United States from Mexico and has been issued an accelerated order to be removed in January 2013, according to a criminal appeal. Additional details about domestic violence fees were not available immediately.

If sentenced to the charges, Dugan could have been up to six years in prison.

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