Immigrant who allegedly dodged ICE with Wisconsin judge's help has been deported

An migrant who was arrested aft a Milwaukee justice allegedly helped him dodge national agents has been deported

MADISON, Wis. -- An migrant who was arrested aft a Milwaukee justice allegedly helped him dodge national agents has been deported.

Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, pleaded blameworthy successful September to illegally reentering the United States aft helium reached a woody with prosecutors. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tweeted Friday day that helium has present been deported.

The tweet did not accidental whether helium was transported backmost to his autochthonal Mexico oregon immoderate different destination. The Associated Press sent an email connection to his attorney, Martin Pruhs, seeking much details but helium did not instantly respond.

Flores-Ruiz is astatine the halfway of a lawsuit against that could extremity with Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan successful prison.

According to tribunal documents, Flores-Ruiz near his location successful Mexico astatine property 18 successful 2013 and sneaked into the United States. He was apprehended and deported instantly aft crossing the border, but reentered the state a fewer days later, making his mode to Milwaukee wherever helium worked successful restaurants for astir 12 years.

He was charged successful March with 3 counts of misdemeanor artillery aft helium allegedly got into a combat with his roommate. U.S. migration agents learned helium was successful the state illegally aft the Milwaukee County Jail submitted his fingerprints to national databases, according to tribunal documents.

He was scheduled to look astatine a proceeding earlier Dugan connected April 18. U.S. migration agents planned to apprehension him astatine the proceeding but, prosecutors say, Dugan learned they were waiting for him and led him retired of her courtroom done a backstage door. From determination Flores-Ruiz made his mode outside. Agents captured him aft a ft pursuit successful the streets.

A national expansive assemblage indicted Dugan successful May connected charges of obstruction and concealing an idiosyncratic to forestall arrest. She's acceptable to stand trial opening Dec. 15. She could look up to six years successful national situation if convicted.

"Judge Hannah Dugan’s actions to obstruct this convulsive criminal’s apprehension instrumentality ‘activist judge’ to a full caller meaning," the Department of Homeland Security said successful its posting Friday. “Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE instrumentality enforcement, this transgression is OUT of our country.”

Dugan has denied immoderate wrongdoing, arguing she has the close to tally her courtroom the mode she sees fit. Her attorneys declined to remark connected Friday, but they filed briefs earlier successful the time noting that Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl Ashley sent an email to region judges astir 2 weeks earlier Flores-Ruiz was arrested saying that courts indispensable stay “safe havens” from migration enforcement.

Flores-Ruiz spent astir of the past 7 months successful jail. State prosecutors dropped 2 of the artillery charges against him successful October aft helium agreed to plead nary contention to the third. He was sentenced to clip served.

U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper sentenced him to clip served connected the amerciable introduction charge connected Nov. 6 arsenic per prosecutors' proposal aft helium agreed to plead guilty and promised not to combat deportation.

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This communicative has been updated to close the plea that Flores-Ruiz entered to the complaint of illegally reentering the U.S. He pleaded guilty, not nary contest.

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