A lawyer for a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos asked Thursday that she be brought back to Massachusetts, three months after she was taken to a Louisiana immigration detention center.
Kseniia Petrova, 30, was already facing deportation. She was charged Wednesday with smuggling goods into the United States, shortly after a federal district court judge had set a hearing on her release. A judge in Louisiana went over the charges during a hearing Thursday.
