A Chinese world was arrested while arriving in the United States Detroit The authorities said on Monday that the airport is the second case in the days that involve the smuggling of alleged biological materials.
The world is accused of charging biological materials months before the employees at a university laboratory Michigan. The FBI described it, in the court file, as a substance related to some worms and requires a government permit.
John Novak, who leads the field operations in customs and protection of the American border, said:
The world was interviewed and arrested on Sunday after arriving on a trip from ChinaWhere she follows an advanced degree at Hawazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. I planned to spend a public in completing a project at the University of Michigan.
The FBI said its shipments, including a stuffed envelope inside a book, was intercepted last year and earlier this year and opened by the authorities.
The court file does not indicate whether the FBI believed that the biological material was risky, although American lawyer Jerome Georgon Junior said that our security smuggling.
The world is still in detention while waiting for the bond session on Wednesday.
“This does not hit me as a dangerous thing in any way. But there are rules for shipping biological materials,” said Michael Shapira, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who read the court’s presenter and spoke to Associated Press.
Last week, the government accused two Chinese scientists accused of plotting to smuggle toxic fungi to the United States. One of them was operated at Detroit Airport and returned to China last year, while the other, a researcher at the University of Michigan, was arrested. She is still in reservation.
