FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photograph Friday evening of the arrest earlier within the day of Wisconsin Choose Hannah Dugan by FBI brokers for serving to an unlawful alien with a home violence case in her courtroom evade arrest by ICE brokers final week. Patel captioned the picture, “Nobody is above the regulation.”
Nobody is above the regulation pic.twitter.com/TSrQ4GNMdA
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 26, 2025
Mid-day Friday, Patel posted, deleted, then reposted an announcement of the arrest of Dugan:
Simply NOW, the FBI arrested Choose Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on fees of obstruction — after proof of Choose Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation final week.
We consider Choose Dugan deliberately misdirected federal brokers away from the topic to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, permitting the topic — an unlawful alien — to evade arrest.
Fortunately, our brokers chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, however the Choose’s obstruction created elevated hazard to the general public.
We may have extra to share quickly. Wonderful work @FBIMilwaukee
Simply NOW, the FBI arrested Choose Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on fees of obstruction — after proof of Choose Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation final week.
We consider Choose Dugan deliberately misdirected federal brokers away from the topic to be…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 25, 2025
TGP’s Cristina Laila reported on the stunning particulars of Dugan’s alleged efforts to hinder the arrest of the beforehand deported Mexican nationwide Eduardo Flores Ruiz throughout a courtroom look on April 18. Read her report at this link. (After a foot chase, Flores Ruiz was captured exterior the courthouse after fleeing with alleged assist from Choose Dugan.)
Milwaukee County Circuit Court docket Choose Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI Friday morning at her courthouse and was later launched with a federal courtroom date of Could 15 after being charged with two felonies, “obstructing and impeding a continuing earlier than a division or company of the US” and “concealing a person to forestall his discovery and arrest.”
Video posted by WISN-TV reporter Matt Smith reveals Choose Dugan dashing towards a chauffer pushed SUV after her preliminary federal courtroom look.
New video from our crews: Milwaukee County Choose Hannah Dugan and her lawyer leaving the federal courthouse in Milwaukee and never commenting. The FBI arrested her on the MKE Co Courthouse this morning. She’s charged with 2 felonies for obstructing an ICE arrest final week pic.twitter.com/3YtgsNHTJl
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 25, 2025
Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for the Division of Homeland Safety, posted a photograph of Flores Ruiz as a part of an announcement on the arrest of Choose Dugan:
That is the legal unlawful alien that the Milwaukee Circuit choose tried to defend from justice. He has a laundry checklist of violent legal fees together with strangulation and suffocation, battery, and home abuse. Ruiz illegally entered the US twice.
Since President Trump was inaugurated, activist judges have tried to hinder President Trump and the American folks’s mandate to make America secure and safe our homeland— however this choose’s actions to defend an accused violent legal unlawful alien from justice is stunning and shameful.
We’re grateful for our companions on the FBI for serving to take away this accused legal from America’s streets.
In case you are right here illegally and break the regulation, we’ll hunt you down, arrest you and lock you up. That’s a promise.
That is the legal unlawful alien that the Milwaukee Circuit choose tried to defend from justice. He has a laundry checklist of violent legal fees together with strangulation and suffocation, battery, and home abuse. Ruiz illegally entered the US twice.
Since President… https://t.co/4HvDtC9XPc pic.twitter.com/To5yzuShos
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) April 25, 2025
Choose Dugan was first elected in 2016 and was reelected in 2022 to a second six-year time period, according to Ballotpedia.
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