Washington Dulles International Airport security personnel detained a woman trying to bring giraffe and zebra bones into the US from Kenya, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The woman, who was not identified because she was not criminally charged, initially stated that she only had a small sprig of acacia in her possession when she arrived at the airport on November 17.
The woman allegedly told CBP officials that she found the giraffe and zebra bones in Kenya.
(Customs and Border Protection)
The small twig was fine to bring back to the US, but CBP agriculture specialists found the animal’s bones while X-raying her bag during a secondary examination.
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The woman allegedly told authorities that she found the animal’s remains in Kenya and wanted to take them back to the United States as a souvenir.
Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors determined that the importation of giraffe and zebra bones violates the Lacey Act, which combats wildlife and plant trafficking, as well as other laws. Certain animal and plant remains could introduce disease into the US, according to CBP.
Dulles International Airport on November 17, 2022, in Dulles, Virginia.
(Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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CBP officer Christopher Brewer told Fox 5 DC that security officials seized everything from charred bat meat to a stew containing iguana eggs.
“About two years ago, one of our officers notified us that they had a passenger who had a baboon skull,” Brewer told the local news outlet. “We’ve had whole flanks of cows literally stuffed into big duffel bags…the smells are sometimes interesting from the things we find.”
