text: A 24-year-old woman is under house arrest in Plano after trying to transport three high-tech night vision scopes to Russia without a license. 
   
   Anna Fermanova Anna Fermanova 
   
   Acting on a tip, federal officials searched the luggage of Anna Fermanova at New York’s JFK International Airport on March 1 and found a Raptor night vision weapons sight and two advanced rifle sights stuffed in a pair of UGG boots. 
   
   Officials confiscated the scopes and allowed Fermanova to continue on a flight to Moscow, where she lives with her husband. The scopes are among items on the U.S. Munitions List that require a license from the Department of State before they can be exported. 
   
   Fermanova was arrested earlier this month when she returned to the United States to visit family. 
   
   She is under house arrest at her parents’ home in Plano until her case can be heard in New York. 
   
   National media have dubbed Fermanova “America’s newest sexy Russian spy,” playing off the news of the arrest last month of Anna Chapman and nine others on suspicion of working for a Russian spy ring. 
   
   “She is quite sexy, you could say, but she is not a spy,” said Fermanova’s Addison-based attorney, Scott Palmer. 
   
   And though she was born in Latvia, Fermanova is a U.S. citizen, Palmer said. 
   
   Palmer said she bought the scopes legally online. He said they were for her husband, who wanted them for a friend who is a hunter. ||||| The 24 year-old, who lives near Dallas, was apprehended after attempting to take state-of-the-art night-vision scopes and other restricted items to Russia . 
   
   The items were confiscated when she attempted to board a flight to Moscow earlier this year. She was arrested when returning to America this month. 
   
   The case is being compared to that of Anna Chapman , a suspected Russian spy who was arrested in New York and then returned to Russia under a "spy swap exchange" earlier this month. There is no evidence that the two women knew one another. 
   
   It has been reported that Miss Fermanova was arrested on July 15th for "knowingly and intentionally" attempting to export "defense articles on the United States Munitions list." The night-vision goggles and scopes cannot be exported without approval from the US State Department, as they are considered to be sophisticated military weapons. 
   
   Among the items she was caught with were a Raptor 4X Night Vision Weapons Sight, which she had bought online. A customs agent claimed that the sight's ID numbers "had been covered with black marker pens". 
   
   Miss Fermanova is under house arrest and has had her passport confiscated. She is expected to attend court in New York later this month where she faces up to 10 years in prison. 
   
   Scott Palmer, the woman's lawyer, said that the charges were "false allegations" and "too sensitive to be discussed." It was reported that Ms Fermanova's husband intended to resell the night-vision scopes to hunters. 
   
   Miss Fermanova is thought to split her time between Moscow and Dallas, Texas. She teaches English in the Russian capital. 
   
   According to her Facebook page, she is a 2005 graduate of the Ogle School of Hair Skin and Nails. She holds a cosmetologist licence in Texas. 
   
   She came to America as a child with her parents from Latvia. 
   
   There is growing concern in America over the actions of apparently "cold-war style" spies, several of whom were caught last month living apparently ordinary lives in suburban America. 
   
   Earlier this month, 10 suspected spies including Chapman, pleaded guilty to federal charges and were deported as part of Cold War-style spy exchange. Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, signed a decree pardoning four Russians convicted of spying for the US.
target: – A beautician who splits her time between Russia and Texas has emerged as America's latest sexy spy since she was busted for trying to smuggle high-tech night vision scopes to Moscow, according to the FBI. Federal officials acting on a tip confiscated the scopes from Anna Fermanova, 24, at New York's JFK Airport earlier this year. She was arrested this month when trying to return to the US, and is being held under house arrest, the Telegraph reports. Fermanova, a Latvian-born US citizen, has been charged with "knowingly and intentionally" trying to export the items without the necessary State Department approval, and faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted. Her lawyer calls the charges "silly," and says the scopes were for her husband, who planned to sell them to hunters. "She is quite sexy, you could say, but she is not a spy," he tells the Dallas Morning News. Fermanova was arrested just two weeks after femme fatale Anna Chapman was sent back to Russia after the feds busted up her spy ring.