The inspector removes a sleeve of mangoes from the passenger’s luggage at the main airport in New York
NEW YORK.- A man who arrived at John F. Kennedy airport from the Dominican Republic was fined $300 after a Customs agent found several mangoes in his luggage.
Juan Castillo was fined because prior to the inspection he told the acting inspector that he did not have vegetables in his belongings.
«He told me that he had nothing,…so he has mangoes. Does she have more mangoes, sir?” Claudia Alcarraz, the customs inspector, is heard saying in a video published by Spectrum News NY.
The audiovisual shows the agriculture specialist checking the suitcases with which Castillo was traveling and extracting a plastic bag from one of them, which she breaks to discover inside several mangoes that traveled from Santo Domingo to the United States.
According to the medium, agricultural and livestock products may have fly worms or larvae and infections such as swine fever, among other diseases.
“We are here as front-line workers, to protect agriculture in the United States against insects and diseases that can cause damage to the economy,” Alcarraz told the New York outlet about the risk of bringing certain types of food into US territory.
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2023-06-07 21:52:45
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