Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty Thursday Federal blocking costs She allegedly helped a man escape immigration authorities during a federal law enforcement operation in the court.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Dugan is FBI arrested in April Director Kash Patel said she “deliberately misled federal agents”, an illegal immigrant who held a criminal court hearing before a judge and will be arrested after the hearing.

A federal judge named Dugan's trial for the week of July 21.

Dugan was charged with hiding a person to cover up a person to prevent arrest and obstruction and prosecuted her on Tuesday on the charges.

The man, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, is currently in custody in the immigration detention center.

Flores-Ruiz was expelled from the United States in 2013 and illegally reentered the United States during this period, and Flores-Ruiz was accused of applying a battery, according to a sworn statement by FBI agents.

ICE issued a warrant for his arrest and deportation after Flores-Ruiz's first arrest in 2013 and a local case in Milwaukee.

Although Flores-Ruiz was scheduled to appear in Dugan, law enforcement waited outside the court to arrest him with an administrative warrant.

"Arson team members reported that a woman approached and took photos while waiting outside the court before Flores-Ruiz arrived with his lawyer.

A court deputy told FBI agents that the woman who took the arrest team showed Dugan while she was on the bench in court, "Dugan was obviously angry and commented that the situation was ridiculous, 'Leave the bench, leave the bench and enter Chambers."

Dugan then approached the arrest team with another judge in the public corridor.

"Eyewitnesses uniformly reported that Judge Dugan was obviously upset and had a confrontational, angry manner," the agent wrote. According to witnesses, Dugan told the arrest team to go to the Chief Justice's office to talk to them about the permissibility of allowing arrests in the court and looked around the corridor near her court to find other law enforcement officers who were awaiting the arrest of Flores-Ruiz.

Dugan did not recognize that an agent from a part of the arrest team stayed in the corridor, waiting for Flores-Ruiz.

Afterwards, agents said several witnesses in Dugan's court looked at her and said, "Wait, come with me," Flores-Ruiz said as he headed towards the public court exit where officials were waiting.

"Then Judge Dugan took Flores-Ruiz and his attorney abroad through the 'jury gate' from the court, which led to a non-public area of ​​the court," the agent wrote.

Later, agents discovered Flores-Ruiz's "look around the corridor" in court, and followed him out of the court, then followed him after he was arrested.

"Judge Dugan asserted her innocence and looked forward to being proven in court," Dugan's attorney Craig Mastantuono said in a statement to CBS News.

Dugan's lawyers filed a dismissal of the indictment against her on Wednesday, claiming that the actions she took were formally judged and therefore "absolutely exempt from criminal prosecution." She also claimed that the arrest was a violation of the Tenth Amendment.

Dugan was released after his first appearance in federal court. Due to her arrest, Dugan was suspended from the bench by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in late April. Milwaukee County Circuit Chief Justice Carl Ashley said Dugan’s case file would be taken over “as needed.”

Dugan has served as a judge in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court since 2016, when she was elected about 65%. She had no objection and was re-elected in 2022.