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Nurse Charged With Helping ICE Detainee Escape Hospital

By Drooid · Sep 30, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC · How we work

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Freeman Aids ICE Escape

Nurse Chloe Renae Freeman helped a Mexican detainee escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital.
Freeman was charged in late August with willfully aiding the detainee’s escape.
The detainee was injured on May 28 while fleeing ICE agents and was taken to the hospital.
Freeman removed the patient’s IV and led him to the ambulance bay.
Security video shows the detainee exiting the ambulance bay minutes after Freeman retrieved him.

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Freeman Secures Release

A 2025 policy reversal removed restrictions on ICE actions in hospitals and other protected sites.
The directive instructs officers to use “common sense” discretion enforcing immigration laws in those sites.
Prosecutors listed ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Marshals as collaborators.
Freeman appeared before Magistrate Judge David R. Grand on September 29 and was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond.

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Freeman Aids ICE Escape

Nurse Chloe Renae Freeman helped a Mexican detainee escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital.
Freeman was charged in late August with willfully aiding the detainee’s escape.
The detainee was injured on May 28 while fleeing ICE agents and was taken to the hospital.
Freeman removed the patient’s IV and led him to the ambulance bay.
Security video shows the detainee exiting the ambulance bay minutes after Freeman retrieved him.

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