The FBI arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges after she allegedly helped an illegal migrant avoid arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday.

The bureau had been investigating Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for trying to help an illegal alien avoid arrest when that person was scheduled to appear in her courtroom last week, sources told the Journal Sentinel.

“Just NOW, 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,” Patel wrote Friday in a since-deleted post on X. “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.

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