By Mike Harris Thursday, August 7th, 2025

Arraignment for a CSU Channel Islands professor on a federal charge of allegedly assaulting immigration agents has been postponed until Aug. 25 after he was hospitalized.

Jonathan Caravello’s attorney, Knut Johnson, told the Business Times Aug. 7 that the professor was taken to the hospital for a minor issue unrelated to this case.” 

Caravello, a lecturer in the university’s math department, is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a July 10 raid at Glass House Farms’ cannabis greenhouse facility in Camarillo.

Caravello allegedly threw a tear gas canister at the agents during sometimes violent anti-ICE demonstrations outside the Camarillo facility.

Caravello was later released on $15,000 bail.

This is the second time his arraignment in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles has been postponed.

It was initially continued from Aug. 1 to Aug. 8.

ICE agents also raided Glass House’s cannabis greenhouse facility in Carpinteria on July 10.

In an Aug. 4 press release, Glass House said it doesn’t believe any of its employees were involved in the demonstrations.

Following the raids, Glass House has ended its relationship with two labor contractors that provided workers for its farms, according to the release.

Glass House also announced that it has hired compliance consultants Guidepost Services, led by Julie Myers Wood, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director and assistant secretary of homeland security.

Guidepost Services will assist Glass House’s counsel with implementing best practices for determining employment eligibility for its employees and employees of contractors, the company said.

The two labor contractors Glass House will be longer be working with were required to ensure that the employees they assigned to the company’s facilities were at least 21 years old and had valid work authorization, Glass House said.

ICE agents who raided the Glass House operations detained more than 360 people suspected of being undocumented immigrants.

They also detained about 11 minors ranging in age from 14 to 17 years old, according to ICE.

Glass said that while the identities of the alleged minors have not been disclosed, “the company has been able to determine that, if those reports are true, none of them were Glass House employees.”

Federal and state labor laws permit minors as young as 12 years old to work in agriculture, the company said.

“As required by California cannabis regulations, however, the company requires that no one under the age of 21 work in any facility,” Glass House said.

During the raid at the Camarillo facility, farmworker Jaime Alanas Garcia, 57, died after reportedly falling 30 feet.

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