A visiting Harvard Law School professor was arrested by U.S. immigration officials this week after his visa was revoked following an incident in October in which he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue in Brookline, Massachusetts.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that Carlos Portugal Gouvêa had been taken into custody by ICE agents, about two months after the "anti-Semitic shooting incident."

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Gouvêa, a citizen of Brazil in the United States on a J-1 visa, was originally arrested by Brookline police on Oct. 2 after he fired a pellet gun near Temple Beth Zion , prompting a lockdown at the temple as services were underway to celebrate the beginning of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. Gouvê

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