A 5-year-old Customs and Border Safety beagle named Freddie, pictured in a CBP Fb video in March, was kicked and injured by a traveler this week throughout a bag search at Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport.
CBP Workplace of Discipline Operations/Fb/Screenshot by NPR
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CBP Workplace of Discipline Operations/Fb/Screenshot by NPR
A 70-year-old Egyptian man pleaded responsible in federal court docket this week after he kicked a Customs and Border Safety agriculture detector canine throughout a bag search at Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport.
Hamed Ramadan Bayoumy Aly Marie was charged with harming an animal utilized in legislation enforcement for kicking a 5-year-old beagle named Freddie onerous sufficient to raise the 25-pound animal off the bottom, CBP mentioned in a news release.
The canine suffered contusions on the fitting aspect of his ribs.
Freddie and his handler had been inspecting baggage when the canine “alerted to considered one of Marie’s suitcases,” the company mentioned. “Because the CBP canine handler began questioning Marie, he violently kicked Freddie.”
CBP mentioned Marie was making an attempt to herald a number of gadgets of meals, together with illicit agriculture merchandise. Amongst his belongings, CBP mentioned its brokers discovered 55 kilos of beef, 44 kilos of rice, 15 kilos of eggplant, cucumbers, bell peppers, two kilos of corn seeds, and a pound of herbs.
Varied international agricultural merchandise are prohibited from being introduced into the USA with a view to defend the nation’s native plantlife from illness and invasive species.
“Being caught intentionally smuggling properly over 100 kilos of undeclared and prohibited agriculture merchandise doesn’t give one permission to violently assault a defenseless Customs and Border Safety beagle,” mentioned Christine Waugh, CBP’s Space Port Director for D.C.
Marie was ordered to pay the canine’s veterinarian invoice and on Thursday was ordered eliminated again to Egypt.
“We rely closely on our K9 companions and Freddie was simply doing his job,” Waugh mentioned.
“Any malicious assault on considered one of us is an assault on all of us, and CBP will proceed to work with our investigating and prosecuting companions to deal swift and extreme justice to perpetrators,” Waugh added.
