Wisconsin judge indicted for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant evade ICE agents

Milwaukee County circuit judgeHannah Dugan has been indicted by a federal expansive jury connected charges of obstruction and concealing a idiosyncratic from apprehension aft allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant debar seizure by migration agents during a tribunal appearance, according to the section of justice.The indictment, announced Tuesday evening astatine a Milwaukee national courthouse, allows the lawsuit to proceed aft the archetypal charges filed successful April. Judge Dugan is accused of assisting Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican nationalist antecedently deported successful 2013, to evade US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents waiting extracurricular her courtroom during a home maltreatment lawsuit proceeding connected April 18.

As per quality bureau AP, Dugan allegedly learned from her clerk that migration officers were contiguous successful the hallway.

Visibly angry, she reportedly called the concern “absurd,” near the bench, and aboriginal confronted the agents with what witnesses described arsenic a "confrontational, aggravated demeanour." She told the officers to talk to the courthouse’s main justice earlier returning to her courtroom and escorting Flores-Ruiz and his a...