Two men arrested en route to China
Two men were arrested Saturday at Los Angeles International Airport after they tried to board a plane to China with infrared cameras in their luggage, a federal official said.
Yong Guo Zhi, a Chinese national, and Tah Wei Chao, a naturalized U.S. citizen, were stopped by federal agents as they were preparing to board a flight to Beijing, said Rick Weir, assistant special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office of the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security.
The men, who had been in the United States for about a week, were arrested on suspicion of trying to take thermal imaging cameras with potential military use to China without the proper export licenses, Weir said.
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