Brazilian Man Who Kicked, Bit ICE Agent In Hartford Pleads Guilty: Feds

HARTFORD, CT — A Brazilian national pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Hartford Thursday to assaulting a federal immigration agent last year in Hartford.

David X. Sullivan, U.S. attorney for Connecticut, said Friday that Luis Peterson Rohr Ferreira Borges, 25, a citizen of Brazil, pleaded guilty Thursday to assault on a federal officer.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Ferreira Borges has a case pending in Connecticut Superior Court stemming from an arrest on Sept. 16, 2023.

In that case, he is charged with assault of public safety, emergency medical, public transit, or health care personnel, third-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace, interfering with an officer, and first-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias.

On Oct. 10, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an arrest warrant for Ferreira Borges, charging him with being present in the United States in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Sullivan said.

On June 25, 2025, federal law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, apprehended Ferreira Borges in the area of Zion Street in Hartford.

Ferreira Borges was non-compliant and resisted arrest, Sullivan said.

After being placed in a government vehicle, he kicked, flailed, and screamed obscenities at the federal officers.

"As the vehicle traveled to the federal building on Main Street in Hartford, Ferreira Borges began raising and moving his leg, which was inches away from the ERO officer who was driving the vehicle, and Ferreira Borges stated he was going to kick the officer in the neck," wrote Sullivan in a release Friday.

"Ferreira Borges then started to bite another ERO officer who tried to control him, and spit on the ERO officer who was driving the vehicle."

Ferreira Borges has been detained since his arrest.

A sentencing is scheduled for April 16, at which time Ferreira Borges faces a maximum term of imprisonment of one year.

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