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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philipsburg, PA) The family of a father from Sewickley named Bruno Guedes da Silva considers the latest expected release from ICE custody as an answered prayer. In February, ICE agents detained him during a traffic stop in Sewickley while he and his wife were driving to work. His family told WPXI that the traffic stop happened on Beaver Street. In a virtual bond hearing held yesterday morning, dozens of friends and family members of Guedes da Silva listened as an immigration judge granted him bond. The ruling stems from the office of Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala’s decision last Wednesday to withdraw the gun charges against Guedes da Silva. Online court documents show that the 38-year-old from Brazil was wanted for a felony warrant for charges related to making a false written statement to obtain a firearm in McCandless. Guedes da Silva is in the Moshannon Valley Ice Processing Center and his family is now working through the logistics of paying a $5,000 bond and a plan to have him back home today.