BALTIMORE — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Washington Dulles International Airport seized some odd objects from vacationers not too long ago.
The two vacationers, arriving from Vietnam, had been referred to a secondary baggage examination.
The first traveler was headed to Fairfax, Va., earlier than being stopped.
Inspectors found prohibited pork, 77 dry seahorses, 5 jars of snail ointment and 5 lifeless snakes.
The import of these things with out the required permits or documentation violated a number of legal guidelines and rules mentioned officers.
The second traveler was on his strategy to San Francisco after being stopped.
Inspectors found 4 prohibited pork merchandise and 50 small containers of a industrial natural liquid medication that listed its substances as snake oils.
CBP agriculture specialists seized all prohibited merchandise and turned them over to USFWS inspectors.
Officials say the worldwide commerce in wildlife is estimated to be within the billions of {dollars}.
“Travelers can help protect wildlife and themselves by knowing what they are allowed to bring with them, whether traveling to or from the United States. All wildlife items that are imported to or exported from the U.S. — parts, products, or live animals — must be accompanied by proper documentation and declared,” mentioned Ryan Noel, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement within the Northeast Region.
Animals and crops are being exploited for all kinds of client items, together with stay and taxidermied specimens, meals merchandise, jewellery, clothes and niknaks, musical devices, vacationer souvenirs and lots of extra merchandise.
