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 ...

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

Fewer German tourists are vacationing in the U.S. after reports of Germans being detained by immigration authorities have ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Two German teens who planned to visit Hawaii in March as part of a months-long world adventure recently told a German ...

In April 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that U.S. border authorities detained and deported two German tourists in Hawaii. One X user, whose post had more than 4 million views at the ...

Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepère, 18 ... The German Foreign Office told the outlet it was involved in Pohl and Lepere’s case and provided consular support following their experience.

Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepère’s first night in Honolulu was not how they intended. The jet-setting high school graduates from Rostock, Germany, had envisioned island-hopping across Hawaii ...

“It was really humiliating,” Maria Lepere, a 19-year-old German from Rostock who was detained along with her friend Charlotte Pohl, also 19, at the Honolulu airport for 24 hours in Marc ...