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flag Brazilian professor arrested for firing pellet gun near MA synagogue, denied hate motive, received probation and agreed to leave U.S.

flag Brazilian visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Harvard Law School lecturer, was arrested by ICE after pleading guilty to firing a pellet gun near a Massachusetts synagogue before Yom Kippur. flag The U.S. State Department revoked his visa, calling the act an "anti-Semitic shooting," but local police and the synagogue stated they did not believe it was hate-motivated. flag Gouvea claimed he was hunting rats and was unaware of the synagogue’s presence or the religious holiday. flag He received six months of pretrial probation and agreed to leave the U.S., avoiding deportation. flag The case unfolded amid tensions between the Trump administration and Harvard, which has sued over federal grant terminations.

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