Maria Lepère and Charlotte Pohl, both recent high school graduates, arrived in Hawaii hoping for the perfect holiday.

Two German teens say they were strip-searched and detained in Honolulu during a backpacking trip around the world after graduating high school. 'It was all like a fever dream,' one of the girls told a ...

Two German teenagers were reportedly detained by federal customs officers while attempting to enter Hawaii by plane and were kicked out of the United States after authorities deemed their trip ...

Two German teenagers planning to explore the US on vacation were thrown in jail and then booted from the country after Customs and Border Protection found their loosely planned trip “suspicious.” ...

Maria Lepere, 18, and Charlotte Pohl, 19, arrived in Hawaii on March 18 with short-term travel permits ahead of a weeks-long US trip but were detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP ...

Pohl and Lepère told German media that border officials first became suspicious about the duration of the women's trip, their finances and that they had not booked accommodation for the entirety ...

According to the paper, Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu without hotel reservations for their planned five-week stay on the island. Although both travelers had ...

Backpackers Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland while undergoing a round-the-world trip. The duo planned to spend five weeks in Hawaii before moving onto ...

Tourists traveling to the Land of the Free are being locked up upon landing. James Liddell has detailed some of the most high-profile cases since President Trump’s return to the White House ...

Rebecca Burke (left) was detained for 19 days, while backpackers Maria Lepère and Charlotte Pohl were held overnight before being deported ...

Snopes readers also emailed to ask whether the claim was true. The claim originated from German media reports about Charlotte Pohl and Marie Lepère, then 19 and 18, respectively, whom border ...