Feds file smuggling charge against Petrova after Judge Christina Reiss questioned a CBP officer's authority to strip her of her student visa.

Boston — A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher, who was already facing deportation back to Russia, was charged Wednesday with trying to smuggle frog embryos into the country.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lawsuit that could test the limits of the Trump administration's power to detain visa holders, including students and scholars, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge granted bail Wednesday to Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova, who has spent more than three months in custody after ...

A Harvard scientist who spent months in custody on a federal smuggling charge was released Thursday after a bail hearing in Boston. Russian citizen Kseniia Petrova was stopped in February at Boston's ...

A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from Immigration and Customs ...

A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher, who was already facing deportation back to Russia, was charged Wednesday with trying to smuggle frog embryos into the country. Kseniia ...

A federal judge granted bail Wednesday to Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova, who has spent more than three months in custody after failing to declare frog embryos upon arriving in the United States.