Overview
- The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, was deported on Thursday following his federal sentencing this month.
- Flores-Ruiz pleaded no contest to illegal reentry under a deal to not contest removal and received a time-served sentence from U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper.
- State prosecutors in Milwaukee dropped two of three misdemeanor battery counts in October after a no-contest plea to the third, resulting in time served.
- Prosecutors allege Judge Hannah Dugan directed Flores-Ruiz out a non-public door during an April 18 courthouse hearing before agents captured him after a foot chase.
- Dugan has pleaded not guilty, is suspended by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and faces a December 15 trial as DHS publicly emphasizes Flores-Ruiz’s alleged violent-crime history.