Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
The nurse "told the interviewers that she did not agree with ICE separating people from their families and that she knew she 'was going to set him free,'" an FBI special agent wrote.
On May 28, a Mexican national sought treatment at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital after injuring himself while attempting to flee ICE custody, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday. The individual was taken to the hospital for a medical evaluation and later underwent a CT scan. After the scan, nurse Chloe Renae Freeman, 33, assisted the man in leaving the hospital through the ambulance bay doors, about three minutes after the scan was completed.
Security footage documented the man's departure from the facility. Freeman admitted during an interview in June that she had allowed the man to escape, even though she knew he was an ICE detainee and did not believe he was in custody at the time. She told investigators that she did not agree with ICE's practice of separating families and believed the man might have died from his injuries.
Freeman, who no longer works at the hospital, was scheduled to appear in federal court in Detroit on Tuesday, with her lawyer stating that she intended to plead not guilty.
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