A WOMAN jogging along a beach accidentally crossed the U.S. border from Canada, and ended up detained in Washington state for two weeks.

Cedella Roman, 19, was visiting her mother from France when she went jogging last month just south of White Rock, British Columbia. She mistakenly continued jogging into Blaine, Washington, she told CBC.

As she stopped to take a picture of the view, she turned around and saw two U.S. Border Patrol officers approaching her.

“He stopped me and started telling me I had crossed the border illegally. I told him I really hadn’t done it on purpose, and didn’t understand what was happening to me,” she told the CBC.

Roman, a French citizen, was not carrying any documents at the time.

“They put me in the caged vehicles and brought me into their facility,” she said. “They asked me to remove all my personal belongings with my jewelry, they searched me everywhere.”

U.S. Border Patrol arrested Roman on May 21 and transferred her to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, according to Carissa Cutrell, public affairs officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Roman’s mother Christiane Ferne, who visited her daughter several times while she was detained, said her daughter’s detention was unfair because she says there are no signs warning pedestrians of the international border.

“It’s like a trap ... anybody can be caught at the border like this,” Ferne told CBC.

Roman was taken to the U.S.-Canadian border and released on June 5, Cutrell said.  (SD-Agencies)