Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan Indicted By Federal Grand Jury

A national expansive assemblage indicted a Wisconsin circuit tribunal judge connected Tuesday, who was arrested past period for allegedly shielding an forbidden migrant from national agents.

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested and charged pinch obstruction of an charismatic proceeding connected April 25, aft grounds became known that she had shielded an forbidden migrant from national agents, according to a criminal complaint. She was besides charged pinch concealing an individual to forestall find and arrest.

Dugan was indicted by a federal expansive jury aft listening to grounds regarding charges that she allegedly tried to thief an forbidden alien flight apprehension successful her courtroom.

On Tuesday, a national expansive assemblage convened to see nan indictment, proceeding grounds that included statements from Eduardo Flores-Ruiz's attorney, who has since withdrawn from his case, and Dugan's tribunal clerk.

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Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan has been indicted by a national expansive assemblage for allegedly shielding an forbidden migrant from national agents. (Lee Matz/ Milwaukee Independent via AP)

Also giving grounds was Milwaukee County Judge Kristela Cervera, a misdemeanor judge whose courtroom is adjacent to Dugan's. The sheet was expected to determine whether to indict Dugan up of her antecedently scheduled preliminary tribunal hearing.

Dugan's attorneys told Fox News, "As she said aft her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks guardant to being vindicated successful court."

Dugan is expected backmost successful national tribunal connected May 15, to look national charges of felony obstruction of a national agency and concealing a personification to thief them debar arrest, which is simply a misdemeanor. She is expected to participate a plea connected nan charges during nan hearing.

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Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan divided pinch announcement connected her courtroom door (AP / Fox News)

The FBI arrested Dugan for allegedly hiding a antecedently deported forbidden migrant successful her assemblage room to extremity him from being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Federal agents from ICE, FBI, CBP and DEA attempted to apprehension Flores-Ruiz aft his scheduled criminal tribunal quality earlier Dugan connected April 18, to look 3 misdemeanor artillery charges for allegedly beating up 2 people.

Dugan demanded that nan officers proceed to nan main judge’s agency and, aft his proceeding ended, escorted Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer retired a restricted assemblage door, bypassing nan nationalist area wherever agents were waiting successful bid to thief him debar arrest, per nan complaint.

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Her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, told nan tribunal past month, "Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made successful nan liking of nationalist safety."

Attorney General Pam Bondi antecedently blasted Dugan's actions connected Fox's "America Reports."

"We could not judge that a judge really did that," Bondi said. "You cannot obstruct a criminal case. And really, shame connected her. It was a home unit lawsuit of each cases, and she's protecting a criminal suspect complete victims of crime."

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Bondi said Flores-Ruiz hit up 2 people, "a feline and a girl."

"[He] hit nan guy, deed nan feline 30 times, knocked him to nan ground, choked him, hit up a female truthful badly; they some had to spell to nan hospital," she said.

Fox News' Patrick McGovern, Michael Dorgan, Jake Gibson and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.