Friday, the FBI stopped and charged Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan – who is accused of having helped a man to escape immigration Authorities – While the Trump administration reduces foreign nationals residing in the United States.
FBI director Kash Patel announced the arrest of the County Court of the County Court of Milwaukee on social networks on Friday, which declared that “intentionally poorly directed” the federal agents far from a man they were trying to take care of his courthouse last week, before removing his post, reported the Associated Press.
“Fortunately, our agents have hunted the PERP on foot and has been in detention since, but the judge’s obstruction has created an increased danger for the public,” wrote Patel.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Kash Patel arrives at the Easter egg roller from the White House on the South White House lawn on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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DUGAN, 65, was arrested on Friday morning on the courts of the courthouse in Milwaukee before appearing briefly in court, where she was accused of obstruction or empire of a procedure before a department or agency in the United States, and to conceal an individual to prevent his discovery and his arrest, according to the court documents.
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It must appear again in court on May 15.
During the hearing on Friday, Dugan’s lawyer, Craig Mastanuono, said: “Judge Dugan regrets and protests his arrest with all heart”, adding that “this was not done in the interest of public security”.
According to an affidavit deposited by the American district court on April 18, Dugan escorted a man named Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer far from the courtroom through the door of the jury room to avoid his arrest.
Documents claim that Flores-Ruiz was losing to the United States illegally and that an arrest warrant was issued on April 17.
The Affidavit quotes the deputy for the courtroom as hearing Dugan pronounces something to “wait, come with me”, before directing them in a private zone of the courthouse.
The action was unusual, the affidavit continued, saying that “only deputies, juries, judicial staff and detention defendants escorted by the deputies used the rear jury door. Defense lawyers and defendants who were not in detention never used the jury door. ”
Dugan’s arrest intervenes in the midst of growing tensions between the Trump administration and the country’s older judges concerning the president’s immigration policy.
Since you take office, the US government has unjustly expelled a man from Maryland in El Salvador and the prisoner of the pro-Palestinian graduate of Columbia University Mahmoud Khalil at his home – would have been without mandate – In March.
The two men have legal status in the United States and have never been accused of crimes.
Last week, the Trump administration was accused of being in contempt for the courtyard For having ignored a decision that ordered him to transform two planes carrying alleged members of Venezuelan gangs in Salvador.
He also ignored an order from the Supreme Court to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the aforementioned Maryland man expelled towards a Salvadoral prison.
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