WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges in a message Patel posted on X and later deleted.
In the post, which Reuters saw 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 spokespersonfor the FBI could not be immediately reached for comment.
The arrest 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.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone)
