FBI arrests Wisconsin judge, alleging she obstructed arrest of illegal alien, sources say

The FBI has arrested a Wisconsin justice for allegedly hiding an illegal immigrant in her assemblage country successful bid to halt that idiosyncratic from being arrested by ICE, Fox News sources say. 

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested and charged with obstruction of an authoritative proceeding Friday greeting aft grounds came to airy that she shielded the migrant from ICE agents, according to national instrumentality enforcement sources. 

Federal instrumentality enforcement sources archer Fox News that connected April 18, national agents from ICE, FBI, CBP and DEA attempted to apprehension an undocumented antheral pursuing his scheduled transgression tribunal appearance. That’s erstwhile national instrumentality enforcement sources accidental Judge Dugan demanded that the officers proceed to the main judge’s office. At that constituent they accidental the justice near and that the undocumented individual’s proceeding concluded and that helium had rapidly near the building.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, pictured successful 2016, has been arrested for allegedly hiding an undocumented immigrant in her assemblage country successful bid to forestall that idiosyncratic from being arrested by ICE. (Mike De Sisti / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, left, Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images, apical right, Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images, bottommost right.)

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Fox News has learned national instrumentality enforcement officials judge Judge Dugan willfully redirected agents and officers to the main judge’s bureau truthful the amerciable migrant could permission the courtroom and evade arrest.

Fox News is told Judge Dugan volition apt person her archetypal quality successful national tribunal successful Milwaukee sometime connected Friday.

Dugan has disputed the accuracy of the reports, according to section reports.

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Fox News Digital contacted Dugan’s bureau by telephone connected Wednesday and a idiosyncratic said the justice was successful tribunal and would instrumentality the call. Fox News Digital contacted Dugan again connected Thursday and has not yet received a response. 

Several outlets reported that Chief Judge Carl Ashley sent retired an email to judges astatine the tribunal astir ICE’s presence, but the email did not notation thing astir the accusations surrounding Dugan.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Dugan responded to the accusations successful its work connected Tuesday, writing: "Nearly each information regarding the 'tips' successful your email is inaccurate." 

The incidental comes aft 2 radical were arrested by ICE officials successful the hallways of the courthouse successful caller weeks, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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State Rep. Bob Donovan, a Republican, addressed the accusations against Dugan earleir this week and said that the FBI was investigating.

"In each my years of Milwaukee authorities and nationalist information issues, moving with cops, territory attorneys, and judges, I person ne'er seen a much irresponsible enactment by an serviceman of the court, fto unsocial a judge, if true," Donovan said successful a statement. "This borders connected obstruction of justness and I anticipation the FBI continues a thorough probe and, if warranted, prosecution to the fullest grade of the law."

Dugan has worked with ineligible assistance organizations and as executive manager of Catholic Charities successful the past. She was elected to Branch 31 of the Circuit Court successful 2016 and ran unopposed successful the 2022 election. She chiefly oversees cases successful its misdemeanor division, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.