A 70-year-old Egyptian man pleaded guilty to federal charges for kicking a Customs and Border Protection agriculture detector dog at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this week.
Hamed Ramadan Bayoumy Aly Marie pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to a charge of harming a federal law enforcement animal.
The incident occurred on Tuesday when CBP canine Freddie, a 5-year-old beagle trained to detect agricultural products, alerted officers to a suitcase belonging to Marie, who arrived from Cairo. As Freddie’s handler began questioning the traveler, Marie responded by kicking Freddie “so hard that the dog was lifted off the ground,” the affidavit said.
A subsequent inspection of Marie’s luggage uncovered over 100 pounds of undeclared and prohibited food
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