According to reports, federal officials arrested a judge in Milwaukee on Friday, claiming that he obstructed an immigration arrest.
Few details were immediately available, but the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, described the accusation in a tweet that has since retired to the Circuit Judge of the County of Milwaukee, Hannah Dugan.
“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,” Patel wrote. “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 to avoid arrest.”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that several judges witnessed the arrest and that Decan would be prosecuted this morning in the Federal Court.
Dugan appeared in a federal court on Friday before being released from custody, the Associated Press reported. It is scheduled to appear again in the Court on May 15.
The arrest seems to increase the bets in the aggressive actions of the Trump administration against the judges who have challenged their repression of immigration.
