A federal grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin decide who was arrested and charged final month with allegedly serving to an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court docket Decide Hannah Dugan has been indicted on prices alleging she hid an individual from arrest and obstructed a continuing earlier than a division or company of america — the identical prices she was initially charged with by criticism.
She is scheduled to be arraigned on the costs on Thursday.
Following the indictment on Tuesday, her authorized crew mentioned in an announcement, “As she mentioned after her pointless arrest, Decide Dugan asserts her innocence and appears ahead to being vindicated in courtroom.”
The decide was arrested on April 25. U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi mentioned in an announcement on the time that two FBI brokers arrested Dugan “for allegedly serving to an unlawful alien keep away from arrest” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Milwaukee County Circuit Decide Hannah Dugan, proven throughout a candidate discussion board in 2016.
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Dugan appeared in U.S. District Court docket for the Jap District of Wisconsin following her arrest and was launched on her personal recognizance. If convicted, she may resist six years in jail.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court docket suspended Dugan in the wake of her arrest, stating in an order that it discovered it was “within the public curiosity that she be quickly relieved of her official duties.”
Her case stems from the arrest of an undocumented immigrant — Eduardo Flores-Ruiz — on April 18, county courtroom data present. Flores-Ruiz was set to seem in courtroom that day earlier than Dugan for a pretrial convention in an ongoing case the place he has been charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery/home abuse.
Upon studying ICE officers have been current in courtroom to arrest Flores-Ruiz, Dugan allegedly turned “visibly offended” and confronted one of many officers, in keeping with the federal criticism that was unsealed following her arrest.
A number of witnesses cited within the criticism later allegedly mentioned Dugan returned to her courtroom after directing members of the arrest crew to the workplace of the courtroom’s chief decide, in keeping with the criticism.
A DEA agent noticed Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer within the public hallway of the courthouse and he gave the impression to be making efforts to evade arrest, the criticism acknowledged. After he was encountered by FBI and DEA brokers exterior the constructing, Flores-Ruiz “circled and sprinted down the road” earlier than he was finally apprehended, in keeping with the criticism.
In a submit on social media, FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Dugan “deliberately misdirected federal brokers away from the topic to be arrested in her courthouse.”
