A federal grand jury has indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who has been charged with helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE when federal agents showed up to her courtroom earlier last month.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dugan, 66, was indicted on May 13 after a hearing that lasted throughout the day. She was previously charged with obstructing a federal agency as well as concealing a person to prevent an arrest from taking place. The two-page indictment details the case, and she is facing up to six years in prison as well as a $350,000 fine.
US District Judge Lynn Adelman will be presiding over Dugan's case as it is carried out. There was a grand jury of 20 people and 12 of them had to vote in favor of indictment to reach the decision, although the total vote was not disclosed, which is common for grand jury proceedings.
On April 25, the FBI took Dugan into custody, with FBI Director Kash Patel announcing the arrest, "The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction - after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest."
