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“U.S. migration authorities arrested a visiting prof astatine Harvard Law School this week aft helium pleaded blameworthy to discharging a pellet weapon extracurricular a Massachusetts synagogue the time earlier Yom Kippur,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said connected Thursday (December 4, 2025).
Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aft his impermanent non-immigrant visa was revoked by the U.S. State Department pursuing what President Donald Trump’s medication labelled an “anti-Semitic shooting incident” — a statement astatine likelihood with however section authorities person described the case.
“Gouvea, an subordinate prof astatine the University of Sao Paulo Law School who had taught astatine Harvard during the autumn semester, has agreed to permission the country,” the Homeland Security Department said. He could not beryllium instantly reached for comment, and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard declined to comment.
Gouvea’s apprehension came arsenic the Trump medication pressed Harvard to scope a woody to resoluteness a litany of allegations it has made against the Ivy League institution, including that Harvard had not done capable to combat anti-semitism and support Jewish students connected campus.
Harvard has sued implicit immoderate of the actions the medication has taken against it, starring a justice to regularisation successful September that the medication unlawfully terminated much than $2 cardinal successful probe grants awarded to the university.
Police successful Brookline, Massachusetts, arrested Gouvea connected October 1, 2025 aft responding to a study of a idiosyncratic with a weapon adjacent the temple Beth Zion connected the eve of the Jewish vacation Yom Kippur. “Gouvea said helium was utilizing a pellet weapon to hunt rats nearby,” according to a constabulary report.
He agreed past period to plead blameworthy to illegally discharging the pellet weapon and service six months of pretrial probation. Other charges helium faced for disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, and vandalising spot were dismissed arsenic portion of the plea deal.
Despite the Trump administration’s claims, the temple Beth Zion has antecedently told its assemblage members that the incidental did not look to person been fuelled by anti-semitism, a presumption shared by the Brookline Police Department, which investigated the matter.
The temple said that the constabulary had informed it that Gouvea was not alert that helium lived adjacent to a synagogue oregon was shooting adjacent to it. Further, Gouvea has besides told that helium was not alert that it was a spiritual holiday.
