Authorities have said the agents were looking for the Milford High School teen's father, who owns the car Gomes da Silva was driving at the time and had parked in a friend’s driveway.

Teammates, coaches and friends of Marcelo Gomes da Silva came to Chelmsford in support of him for his immigration hearing.

A Milford high school student held in federal detention since last weekend when US Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents stopped him on his way to volleyball practice was granted bail Thursday by an immigration judge in Chelmsford.

A Milford teenager being detained by ICE is meeting with a lawyer as a judge denied a motion from the government to transfer him to Rhode Island.