NEW YORK -- A postal worker on Long Island faced charges on Thursday that she interfered with an immigration arrest by helping a detainee to briefly escape custody.

Tamara Mayorga-Wong, 57, is charged with obstructing a federal proceeding. She is due in federal court on Thursday afternoon in Central Islip.

Mayorga-Wong, while wearing her USPS uniform, approached federal law enforcement officers detaining a man in front of a 7/11 convenience store next to the Westhampton Post Office on Nov. 5, according to the criminal complaint.

"You can't do this," the complaint quoted her saying to the ICE officers and HSI agents.

After they placed the detainee in the rear of the police vehicle, and prepared to drive away, Mayorga-Wong ran up to the rear passenger door, opened it, and told the man,

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