A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Milwaukee County choose Hannah Dugan for obstructing an ICE arrest final month.
Final month Decide Hannah Dugan was charged with two felonies, nonetheless, the costs within the grand jury indictment weren’t instantly clear.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:
A federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County Decide Hannah Dugan on Might 13 after a daylong listening to on costs that she tried to help an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom final month.
Dugan, 66, was beforehand charged with obstructing a U.S. company and concealing a person to forestall an arrest. The 2 costs carry a most penalty of six years in jail and a $350,000 advantageous, however sentences in circumstances involving nonviolent offenses sometimes are a lot shorter.)
It wasn’t instantly clear what costs had been contained within the grand jury indictment.
Dugan is anticipated to enter a plea at a Might 15 listening to.
The indictment got here after a string of witnesses entered the federal courthouse all through the day on Might 13 to testify earlier than the grand jury.
Final month Milwaukee County choose Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI for obstructing an ICE arrest.
In line with the FBI, Decide Hannah Dugan obstructed an immigration arrest operation final month. Dugan turned offended when she came upon that ICE brokers had been ready exterior of her courtroom final week to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an unlawful alien concerned in a home abuse case she was overseeing. She allegedly directed Flores-Ruiz to exit the courthouse via a personal jury door to evade arrest.
FBI Director Kash Patel stated Decide Dugan “deliberately misdirected federal brokers away from the topic to be arrested at her courthouse.”
US Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi stated Decide Dugan screamed at immigration officers final week earlier than serving to the unlawful alien evade arrest.
“The choose realized that ICE was exterior … She goes out within the hallway, screams on the immigration officers — she’s livid, visibly shaking, upset — sends them off to speak to the chief choose. She comes again within the courtroom … takes the defendant and the protection legal professional again in her chambers, takes them out a personal exit and tells them to go away,” Bondi stated on Fox Information final month.
Decide Dugan didn’t communicate to reporters as she climbed right into a car ready for her after her listening to final month.
Video courtesy of WISN 12 Information:
New video from our crews: Milwaukee County Decide Hannah Dugan and her legal professional leaving the federal courthouse in Milwaukee and never commenting. The FBI arrested her on the MKE Co Courthouse this morning. She’s charged with 2 felonies for obstructing an ICE arrest final week pic.twitter.com/3YtgsNHTJl
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 25, 2025
