Karoline Leavitt’s Brother Had Grim Custody Fight With ICE-Arrested Ex
The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Ferreira overstayed her visa, which expired in 1999, and said she had previously been arrested for battery. Todd Pomerleau, Ferreira’s attorney, insisted that she remained in the country legally and was seeking citizenship through DACA, and that she had no criminal record. (Melrose police filed a report on an incident that occurred when Ferreira was just 16 years old, where she was summoned to court on battery charges after an officer said he saw her attacking a girl in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot.)
It appears, however, that Ferreira and her ex-husband had a tumultuous relationship in the years leading up to her arrest.
Ferreira and Leavitt welcomed their son in March 2014, just weeks after she finalized her divorce from her first husband. At first, things seemed amicable, but in April 2015, Leavitt filed a child custody complaint in New Hampshire Family Court and told police that an “illegal alien from Brazil” had run off with her son and his car.
