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.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that a Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia, who has been detained since February when federal customs agents discovered frog embryos in her luggage, be transferred to Massachusetts to face a criminal charge of allegedly smuggling biological material into the United States.

A Russian researcher at Harvard Medical School who has been detained by US immigration authorities since February was charged with illegally smuggling frog embryos in her luggage on a plane flight.