Updated Apr 25, 2025 - Politics & Policy

READ: FBI criminal complaint against Wisconsin judge

Sareen Habeshian

The J. Edgar Hoover building, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters, is photographed on October 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. A report released by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reveals that the Trump White House restricted the FBI's 2018 investigation into sexual misconduct allegations ag — The J. Edgar Hoover building, FBI headquarters, on Oct. 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

The FBI on Friday arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly trying to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.

The big picture: The complaint filed in U.S. District Court charges the judge with obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the U.S. and with concealing an individual to prevent his discovery or arrest.

The judge has been released from custody and is due back in court for a preliminary hearing and arraignment on May 15.

Zoom in: Dugan, who has served nearly a decade on the court, is accused of trying to help an undocumented immigrant who appeared in her courtroom avoid arrest by immigration officials.

When Dugan learned ICE agents were present at the courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz with an administrative warrant, she told them to speak to the chief judge first, according the complaint.
Dugan meanwhile, allegedly took Flores-Ruiz out of the court room through a juror door, per witnesses cited by the FBI.
Agents later arrested Flores-Ruiz outside the courthouse.

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