Even a little marijuana is too much at BWI Airport
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a search of the luggage of an arriving passenger at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport yielded a discovery and a seizure. The search came after a customs detector dog “alerted,” the agency said.
The item seized, the agency said, was a single cigarette that contained less than 1 gram of marijuana.
The cigarette was in a bag carried by a U.S. citizen, who was arriving from Jamaica, the agency said.
The agency said the woman, who comes from the Bronx, was released after being assessed what was described as a $500 “zero tolerance penalty. A customs spokesman said a zero tolerance penalty was a civil penalty imposed when a traveler is not charged with any crime....
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