Guilherme Silva, a 35-year-old Friday Harbor man, was detained by ICE on San Juan Island on July 11, has been arrested by Homeland Security on charges of possession of pornography depicting a minor. Silva is currently in Whatcom County Jail in Bellingham.

On July 29, Silva had a bail hearing in Immigration Court, where a bail amount of $8,000 was set. His wife, Rachel Leidig, paid that bail amount in full and went to the detention center in Tacoma to pick him up.

Silva, however, had been transferred to the custody of Homeland Security that same day for the child pornography charges. He had an arraignment on July 30 at Whatcom County Superior Court, but records from that hearing have not yet been processed by the clerk’s office. His bail was set at $250,000.According to his wife, Silva pl

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