Says right in the article that they also caught her trying to sneak $9,500 USD in cash out of the country on her person. This is a non-story not sure why it was even worth reporting. Perhaps it was notable because it is one of the few instances where someone actually used a crypto currency to send money to alleged terrorists as opposed to the thousands of known cases where they used EUR or USD.

She probably had to fly the cash to them because her BTC transaction was stuck in the mempool.