Kash Patel, the candidate of President Donald Trump who will be director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate judicial committee in the Dirksen Senate office in Washington, January 30, 2025.
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Federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday after pretending to have helped an undemanded immigrant arrest, said FBI director Kash Patel.
Patel announced in an X post that the Milwaukee circuit court judge Hannah Dugan, was accused of obstruction for having pretended to help Eduardo Flores Ruiz of avoiding his arrest after appearing in his courtroom last week.
Hannah Dugan speaks while she asked for elections at the County Count of Milwaukee County at a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, March 15, 2016.
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A spokesperson for the US Marshals service confirmed to CNBC that Dugan had been arrested around 8:30 am local time on the ownership of the courthouse.
Dugan is in police custody while waiting for his presentation scheduled for Friday later Friday before the American District Court of Milwaukee for the accusation of obstruction, said a senior law enforcement at NBC News.
The chief judge of the County Court of Milwaukee County, Carl Ashley, told NBC that the judicial code would prevent him from commenting on the issue, but said that the calendar of the Dugan court “will be covered by another judge if necessary”.
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, at the arrest of judge Hannah Dugan.
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The arrest of a judge marks a strong escalation in the aggressive efforts of the Trump administration to withdraw undocumented immigrants from the United States
Patel in his tweet wrote that the FBI thinks that Dugan “intentionally poorly managed the federal agents” of Ruiz while the agents were trying to arrest him at the courthouse.
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 to the public, “said Patel in the post.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Tuesday that the FBI examined Dugan’s conduct surrounding an attempted arrest by immigration and customs agents in its courthouse on April 18.
Ice agents have already stopped people in the corridors of the courthouse in March and April, according to the Sentinel newspaper.
Ice did not immediately respond to the request for CNBC comments. A person who answered a call to the Chambers of Dugan refused to comment.
The White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement in NBC: “The days when helping and actively encourage illegal foreigners invading our country are over.”
The Trump administration will never hesitate to put Americans and America first with an approach without heads of the application of immigration. In this administration, whoever commits crimes is criminal responsibility, “said Desai.
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