Officials said TSA agents found zebra and giraffe bones in a woman’s luggage at a Dulles Airport checkpoint.
Found in the most unusual of places: zebra and giraffe bones in a traveler’s luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport.
Officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said last week that their agriculture specialists discovered the animal bones in the baggage of a woman from Fauquier County, Va. She told authorities she had found them while in Kenya and kept them as souvenirs.Having such bones is a violation of the Endangered Species and Lacey acts, along with parts of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
“There are certain import and export rules that have to be followed when you’re transporting wildlife products that are protected — you have to get certain permits,” said Stephen Sapp, a spokesman for the customs and border protection agency.Sapp said the woman told authorities she was on a trip and found them along a riverside at a property in Kenya and that the owner of the property told her she could have them.
In a Twitter message, Stephen Maloney — director of field operations for the customs and border protection Baltimore field office — said, “Here’s something you don’t see everyday.” Under a photo of the bones that were seized, officials wrote, “Make No Bones About It — These Bones are Prohibited.”
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