'Nice Jewish girl' Anna Fermanova busted for trying to smuggle night-vision scopes to Russia

Fermanova, who was born in Latvia, was arrested at her home near Dallas on July 15 after returning from a four-month trip to Moscow - where her husband lives, court papers say. But court documents make Fermanova sound like quite the femme fatale. Fermanova told the agents she bought the scopes online for her husband's hunting buddies in Russia. She admitted removing identifying marks from the scopes and blacking out serial numbers with a marker "so they would be less noticeable," court records show. Agents confiscated the scopes but allowed her to fly to Moscow - then arrested her when she returned to U.S. soil this month. Fermanova was charged with "knowingly and intentionally" attempting to export "defense articles on the United States Munitions list" - charges that carry 10 years in prison. She was arrested in 2003 for forging a $76 check, fined and given three years of probation, according to court records. The suspected smuggler is described in court papers as 5-foot-6, 135 pounds, with a belly-button piercing .