Harvard Law prof who fired pellet gun near synagogue, said he was ‘hunting rats’ agrees to leave US: DHS

NY Post ^ | 12/05/25 | Samuel Chamberlain

[Libloather]

A Brazilian Harvard Law School professor who pleaded guilty last month to illegally firing an air rifle outside a Boston-area synagogue — and told police he was “hunting rats” — has agreed to leave the US following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.

Carlos Portugal Gouvea, 43, copped Nov. 13 to a single charge of illegal use of the air rifle in connection with the Oct. 2 incident outside of Brookline’s Temple Beth Zion, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.

The scholar was arrested by ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Wednesday and agreed to return to Brazil voluntarily to avoid deportation, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“It is a privilege to work and study in the United States, not a right,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “There is no room in the United States for brazen, violent acts of anti-Semitism like this. They are an affront to our core principals [sic] as a country and an unacceptable threat against law-abiding American citizens.”

[NorthMountain]

NJ is just plain nuts ...

[Gay State Conservative]

But Brookline does not seem to be a town with a large Jewish population.

Don't know how familiar you are with "Greater Boston" but I've lived here all my life. Brookline,and at least one or two ajoining Boston suburbs,are very heavily Jewish. Brookline in particular is a wealthy town that's the home of many physicians,young and old,who work in the nearby "Longwood Medical Area"...home of Harvard Medical School and several world famous hospitals (I worked at one of those hospitals for 20+ years).

I don't know how many of these Jews could be called "observant" but their presence is very well known.