Overview

• Everett officials said police arrested the seventh-grader at a bus stop after a credible tip about a threat against a student and recovered a 6–7 inch knife but no firearm.
• DHS public statements described the youth as a public-safety threat and alleged he had a gun and an extensive record, a claim Everett’s police chief contradicted regarding the firearm.
• The boy was booked at the Everett police station and then taken into ICE custody there, spent a night at an ICE holding facility in Burlington, and was transferred to a juvenile center in Winchester, Virginia.
• The family, Brazilian nationals with a pending asylum case, say the mother was called to pick him up and later learned ICE had taken him, and they report poor conditions in detention.
• Judge Richard G. Stearns ordered the government to explain the detention by Tuesday or proceed to a bond hearing by Oct. 17, while the mayor said Everett police did not contact ICE about the arrest.