U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it intercepted “two significant, prohibited commodities” at Chicago O’Hare International Airport earlier this month
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- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seized a monkey carcass from a passenger’s luggage after a secondary inspection at Chicago O’Hare Airport
- Another traveler attempted to smuggle 125 pounds of prohibited meat hidden in dried seafood from Liberia
- The CBP warns undeclared agricultural items can carry diseases harmful to crops and livestock, and passengers could face a penalty if they fail to declare them
Some unusual items were seized at Chicago O’Hare International Airport earlier this month in two separate passenger incidents, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The agency confirmed in an April 22 press release that it “intercepted two significant, prohibited commodities” from passengers traveling from different countries on April 11, including a “monkey carcass” and “125 pounds of prohibited ruminant meat.”
In the first instance, one passenger’s luggage arriving from Cameroon had to go through a secondary agriculture inspection after an “anomaly discovered during an X-ray examination of the traveler’s baggage prompted a thorough search of the suitcase,” per the release.
During the search, a CBP agricultural specialist then discovered there was a monkey carcass in the traveler’s luggage…