- Safiu Kehinde
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a Wisconsin judge over alleged obstruction of immigration operation.
This was reportedly disclosed in a now deleted post on X by FBI Director, Kash Patel,
According to the post, which was seen by Reuters before it was deleted, Patel said there was evidence of the judge “obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.”
A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at a courthouse this morning.
A spokesperson for the FBI could not be immediately reached for comment.
The arrest, according to Reuters, comes after Emil Bove, now the Justice Department’s Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, issued a memo in January calling on prosecutors to pursue criminal cases against local government officials who obstructed the federal government’s immigration enforcement efforts.