June 26 (UPI) -- A Harvard University Medical School researcher was indicted on charges related to allegedly attempting to sneak frozen frog embryos into the United States.
A federal grand jury in Boston charged Kseniia Petrova of Russia with one count of smuggling goods into the United States, one count of false statement and one count of concealment, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced on Wednesday.
Petrova, who is currently on pretrial release, could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for smuggling, as many as five years on the concealment of material fact and false statements charges, plus a total of up to eight years of supervised release and as much as $50,000 in fines.
Petrova was first taken into immigration custody on Feb. 16 after Customs and Border Protection agents detained her at Logan International Airport in Boston after her arrival from Paris.
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