Ashley Cervantes, a US citizen who was 18 at the time, was stopped at the Mexico border and accused by Customs and Border Protection of smuggling drugs. A search proved fruitless so they gave her a body cavity search. US Customs and Border Protection still couldn’t find the drugs they were looking for so they took her to a hospital for an X-ray. No drugs.
She was released after 7 hours and given a bill for $575 for the “treatment.”
