NEW YORK (LALATE) – Anna Fermanova’s attorney says Anna is not a Russian spy. Anna Fermanova was labeled incorrectly as a charged Russian spy by New York press hungry to associate her with the Anna Chapman story, says her attorney late Wednesday.

As reported earlier on LALATE, Anna Fermanova is not charged as a spy. Anna Fermanova is charged for smuggling items through checked baggage at New York’s Kennedy Airport. It’s just a coincidence that her plane was headlining to Russia; or is it?

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Anna Fermanova’s attorney says New York press, still happy with their commercial successful story of Anna Chapman, tried to wrongly associate his client with Chapman.  This is despite the fact that Anna Fermanova is not Russian and not even charged with being a spy. In fact, she’s an hair and makeup professional from Texas.

Scott Palmer told CBS 11 that a mere checked baggage case has wrongly associated his client with Russian spy arrests recently in New York. “She’s concerned, she doesn’t like the fact the New York press has labeled her the new sexy Russian spy. Again, she’s not a spy and she’s not Russian.”

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Anna Fermanova is a U.S. citizen, Anna Chapman was not. Anna Fermanova arrest was while checking baggage at JFK. Anna Chapman’s arrest was part of high level FBI surveillance operation.

Anna Fermanova’s husband is a resident of Moscow. Court records claim she does divide her time between Moscow and Plano, Texas. Yet, Anna Fermanova claims the items she had were bought online while in the U.S. and were being taken to Russia to be resold. Anna Fermanova’s potential buyers were amateur bear hunters, not Anna Chapman’s KGB supervisors. “Hunting is apparently big and very expensive in Russia, and I think they hunt bears at night and they wanted night vision, that’s it” says her lawyer.

A court document in Fermanova’s case says after she was stopped by JFK officials, “during the examination of Fermanova’s luggage, CBP discovered three night vision devices including one Raptor 4X weapons sight and two Night Optics USA type D740-3A weapons.”

“Fermanova stated that she had purchased the scopes online and that one of the scopes was a Raptor. Fermanova stated that should could not recall the mdoel name of the other two devices. Fermanova further stated that the scopes were generation 3 night vision devices. Fermanova acknowledged the scopes belonged to her.”

“When asked if [she removed the identification markings] so that she could get them out of the United States without a license, Fermanova replied yes. She further claimed that she was taking the items to her husband, a resident of Moscow, Russia.”