Michigan nurse charged with helping ICE detainee escape — Jerusalem Post

In the United States, nurse Chloe Renee Freeman of Whitmore Lake, Michigan, was charged with intentionally helping a Mexican citizen escape federal custody at Trinity Health Ann Arbor hospital. Charges against the 33-year-old Freeman were filed in late August, and court documents were unsealed on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reports.

Escape after CT scan

According to the criminal complaint, on May 28, a man who was undergoing removal proceedings from the United States was injured while attempting to flee from agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He was taken to the hospital where Freeman worked for a medical examination and later underwent a CT scan.

FBI Special Agent Michael Wagner stated in the complaint that after the scan was completed, Freeman led the man out of the room. Surveillance cameras recorded that less than three minutes later, he left the hospital through the ambulance bay doors. He has not been found since.

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The nurse's explanation

During an interview on June 18, Freeman admitted that she allowed the man to leave, the complaint states. She knew he was an ICE detainee but believed that he was not in custody at that moment because agents were not near him in the CT scan room.

According to the FBI agent, Freeman told investigators that she disagreed with ICE separating people from their families and knew she would let the man go. She also said that, in her view, he could have died from his injuries.

Trinity Health said that Freeman no longer works at the hospital. Her lawyer, Matthew Borgula, told the Detroit News that the nurse plans to plead not guilty. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Freeman's lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.