MONROE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the transfer of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher facing deportation from Louisiana, where she was detained by immigration authorities, to Massachusetts, where she has been charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos.

Russian-born Harvard Medical School cancer scientist, Kseniia Petrova, who was taken to a Louisiana immigration detention centre three months ago and was already facing deportation, was on Wednesday charged with smuggling goods into the United States, reported PTI.