American Stephanie Allison Jolluck was arrested Friday at the airport in the Guatemalan capital as she tried to return to her country with two Mayan pieces of pre-Hispanic origin, prosecutors said.
The spokesman of the entity, Moisés Ortiz, told reporters that the American “will now face a process defrauded by the crime of trafficking of national treasures,” specifying the pre-Hispanic era where the seized coins come from.
Jolluck had the cultural items hidden in his suitcases as he tried to leave the country for the United States on a flight at La Aurora International Airport on the southern outskirts of Guatemala City.
According to photographs of the frame in rate of prosecution of thieves, these are two stones carved with several figures.
The official said that the Multipersonnel Court of First Criminal Instance has opened a criminal process against Jolluck, but has granted him optional measures so that he does go to prison, the prohibition to leave the territory and visit the stalls where archaeological pieces are sold.
In addition, he must appear at the prosecutor’s office every 15 days to sign an ebook stating that he is still in the Central American country.
Meanwhile, the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) has an investigation period of three months to oppose the US.
The Mayan culture experienced its greatest splendor in the so-called Classic era (250-900 AD), until declining in the Postclassic era (900-1200 AD). El Salvador, Honduras and Belize.