Ex-USC student gets probation in gun threat
A former USC student was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation for making criminal threats at a party near campus last year.
Zao Xing “Crossing” Yang, 21, pleaded guilty last year to two counts of making a criminal threat.
Yang was an undergraduate when he was arrested in April 2007 after students at a weekend party saw him holding a .25-caliber handgun and wrestled him to the ground, police said.
Police later searched Yang’s apartment and found packages of methamphetamine, a .44-caliber revolver and several hundred dollars in cash, police said.
Judge David M. Horowitz released Yang to his parents in New York after crediting him with nearly a year served in county jail. Yang is barred from entering California during his probation and is required to stay away from the USC campus and four named victims, who include former USC students, for 10 years.
Previous charges that Yang made assaults with a firearm were dismissed after plea negotiations, according to court documents.
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