'Just bring your documents,' warns Manitoba man stopped at U.S. border over stayed charges

A Manitoba man with no criminal record is warning Canadians who have had charges dropped to bring documentation when travelling to the United States, after he says he was turned away at a border crossing for not providing proof that theft charges from nearly a decade ago had been stayed.

After handing over his passport at the Pembina–Emerson border crossing into North Dakota for work-related travel over the summer, the man said U.S. border guards held him for four hours, taking his fingerprints and questioning him about Canadian charges of theft under $5,000 that were dropped.

Those charges stemmed from a dispute with a previous employer, he told CBC.

CBC News has agreed not to name the man because he has concerns about fear of reprisal when he travels to the U.S. in the future.

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