A federal judge in Maine ordered officials to release a woman arrested by ICE in Fitchburg last week from custody, finding that there were “extraordinary circumstances” to support the woman’s release.

U.S. District Judge Stacy Neumann issued the order Monday afternoon in the case of Juliana Milena Ojeda Montoya — who has been listed in other official documents as Juliana Milena Zapata and Juliana Milena Ojeda-Montoya — just days after lawyers for the woman filed a petition seeking her release from custody. Ojeda Montoya was being held at a detention center in Maine after her detention last week.

“Her current detention without an opportunity to be heard violates her rights to due process,” Neumann wrote.

ICE agents surrounded a car driven by the woman’s husband as he drove her to her job

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