The State : Man Innocent in Drug Case
A Hong Kong businessman has been acquitted of charges of smuggling $25 million worth of heroin into Long Beach Harbor aboard a freighter. Charn Kwan Wong, 43, was found innocent in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on three counts of a federal indictment that charged him with importing 31 pounds of high-grade heroin found in a cargo ship that sailed into Long Beach on Nov. 24. Wong, a Hong Kong food exporter, claimed that he had hired an intermediary, Wing Wah Tin, to help him smuggle valuable Chinese antiquities into the country and that there was never any discussion of importing heroin. Tin has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import heroin. No Chinese antiques were ever found.
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