The FBI has arrested a judge from the state of Wisconsin accused of obstructing the detention of a migrant last week, as announced by FBI director Kash Patel in a subsequently deleted message on his X social media account but confirmed by security sources to the local newspaper ‘Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’.
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This is the first time that the US Department of Justice has detained a member of the judiciary on the presumption of interfering with the new immigration doctrine of the White House.
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In his message, Patel announced the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan on “obstruction charges” after finding evidence that the magistrate interfered in “an immigration arrest operation” by “intentionally diverting” the agents who were going to detain an undocumented migrant identified as Eduardo Flores Ruiz.
The judge’s obstruction prevented a first attempt to arrest Flores Ruiz, who was later detained after a foot chase. “The judge’s obstruction increased the danger to the public,” Patel stated in his deleted message.
However, the spokesperson for the United States Marshals Service in Washington D.C., Brady McCarron, has confirmed to the ‘Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’ that the judge was arrested around 08:00 at the Milwaukee County courthouse and is in federal custody.