U.S. Customs Officers Warn Against Bringing Marijuana To BWI Airport

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LINTHICUM, Md. (WJZ) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made 15 seizures of marijuana and unreported currency astatine Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport implicit a five-week play dating backmost to mid-August, the bureau said connected Friday.

All 15 passengers were connected flights either arriving from oregon departing to countries extracurricular the United States.

None of the passengers was criminally charged, but the bureau is reminding travelers that possession of marijuana is inactive a national crime, adjacent if Maryland has decriminalized it.

“It’s important that travelers indispensable recognize that marijuana possession remains a national offense, and that travelers indispensable wide a Customs and Border Protection inspection presumption upon arriving and departing the United States, truthful it’s astir apt a precise omniscient determination for them to permission their marijuana astatine location oregon backmost connected vacation,” said Adam Rottman, Customs and Border Protection’s Area Port Director for the Area Port of Baltimore. “Unfortunately, that connection isn’t getting through.”

Officers seized $80,388 successful unreported currency from 5 travelers during betwixt Aug. 16 and Sept. 8, the bureau said.

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Five passengers with cannabis received a combined $4,000 successful penalties. Two different couples successful possession of marijuana did not person civilian penalties.