Singaporean Held in U.S. Military Rifle Sting
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A citizen of Singapore was indicted Friday for allegedly trying to buy three U.S. military rifles to send to Indonesia.
Chia Kia Cheng was arrested after meeting with an undercover government agent in San Diego. The rifles were to be the first batch of “hundreds of additional rifles” that Cheng wanted to buy, prosecutors said.
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