Judge Arrested in the US
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The news item indicates that that is precisely what has happened.
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Yes, I know; your anti-American hate is unwavering.
Still; a sabotaging fat fuck was indeed arrested.
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Are you afraid of those smallish brown people? Mericas reliable workforce
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It's already Friday. (That's Freyr's Day, fyi.)
Also, this is actually the second Judge arrested for this kind of thing.
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From:
Additional details are contained in an affidavit filed in federal court.
In her sworn statement, FBI Special Agent Lindsay Schloemer outlined events leading to Dugan’s arrest and laid out the allegations against the judge.
In mid-March, Flores Ruiz was charged with domestic violence in a case that was assigned to Dugan.
Federal authorities found that the defendant had been deported to his home country, Mexico, in 2013.
After finding no evidence that he re-entered the United States legally, an immigration official determined Flores Ruiz should be subject to removal proceedings again.
Immigration officers knew that Flores Ruiz was scheduled for a hearing in Dugan’s court on April 18. A team of deportation officers and FBI agents planned to arrest Flores Ruiz afterward.
After they informed court officials about their intentions, they waited outside the courtroom, where a woman took photographs of two team members.
That woman was later identified as an attorney for the state public defender’s office.
She later described these plainclothes officers to Dugan’s clerk; a witness told investigators that someone announced “ICE is here.”
Dugan left the bench. She and another judge, both wearing judicial robes, approached the team members.
“Witnesses uniformly reported that Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor,” the affidavit says.
The affidavit stated that Dugan “ordered” the team to go to the chief judge’s office.
And, according to witnesses, Dugan allegedly “escorted” Flores Ruiz and his lawyer “out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” the affidavit says.
“According to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door. Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door,” the affidavit says.
Another officer noticed Flores Ruiz and his lawyer on an elevator, and alerted members of the arrest team, which then “scrambled” to find Flores Ruiz.
They spotted him near a flagpole outside the courthouse. He then “turned around and sprinted down the street,” the affidavit says.
Additional details are contained in an affidavit filed in federal court.
In her sworn statement, FBI Special Agent Lindsay Schloemer outlined events leading to Dugan’s arrest and laid out the allegations against the judge.
In mid-March, Flores Ruiz was charged with domestic violence in a case that was assigned to Dugan.
Federal authorities found that the defendant had been deported to his home country, Mexico, in 2013.
After finding no evidence that he re-entered the United States legally, an immigration official determined Flores Ruiz should be subject to removal proceedings again.
Immigration officers knew that Flores Ruiz was scheduled for a hearing in Dugan’s court on April 18. A team of deportation officers and FBI agents planned to arrest Flores Ruiz afterward.
After they informed court officials about their intentions, they waited outside the courtroom, where a woman took photographs of two team members.
That woman was later identified as an attorney for the state public defender’s office.
She later described these plainclothes officers to Dugan’s clerk; a witness told investigators that someone announced “ICE is here.”
Dugan left the bench. She and another judge, both wearing judicial robes, approached the team members.
“Witnesses uniformly reported that Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor,” the affidavit says.
The affidavit stated that Dugan “ordered” the team to go to the chief judge’s office.
And, according to witnesses, Dugan allegedly “escorted” Flores Ruiz and his lawyer “out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” the affidavit says.
“According to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door. Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door,” the affidavit says.
Another officer noticed Flores Ruiz and his lawyer on an elevator, and alerted members of the arrest team, which then “scrambled” to find Flores Ruiz.
They spotted him near a flagpole outside the courthouse. He then “turned around and sprinted down the street,” the affidavit says.
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I know we don't normally agree but I'm with you on this one.
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