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FBI arrests Wisconsin judge and accuses her of obstructing immigration officials

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Hannah Dugan, a county judge in Milwaukee, participates in a candidate forum in 2016. Photograph: Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA Today Network

The FBI on Friday arrested a judge whom the agency accused of obstruction after it said she helped a man evade US immigration authorities as they were seeking to arrest him at her courthouse.

The county circuit judge, Hannah Dugan, was apprehended in the courthouse where she works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at 8.30am local time on Friday on charges of obstruction, a spokesperson for the US Marshals Service confirmed to the Guardian.

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