KENORA, Ont. — An Ontario woman has been fined $5,000 for trying to sneak her American boyfriend across the Canadian border.

Loris Letain, 53, of Kenora, pleaded guilty in June to aiding and abetting a foreign national.

RCMP officers caught her in March 2008 trying to bring her boyfriend, Robert Eugene Crump, into Canada through the Northwest Angle, a remote crossing near the Manitoba/Minnesota border along the western shore of Lake of The Woods.

Lisa White of the Canada Border Services Agency says he departed from Minnesota and went to the crossing where she picked him up.

Crump, who has a criminal record and had unsuccessfully attempted to enter Canada three times before, was sent back to Minnesota that day, and Letain was charged.