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A Chinese national was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly shipping weapons and ammunition from Long Beach, California, to North Korea.the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. The press release described Wen as being a Chinese nation who had overstayed his student visa in the U.S. and who was “therefore prohibited from possessing any firearms or ammunition.
“It is essential that we protect our country from hostile foreign states that have adverse interests to our nation,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. “We have arrested a defendant who allegedly acted at the direction of the North Korean government by conspiring to illegally ship firearms, ammunition, and other military equipment to North Korea.”
Wen’s arrest comes months after law enforcement officials “seized” from Wen’s residence on August 14, “two devices that he intended to send to North Korea for military use.” One was reportedly a “chemical threat identification device” and another was a “hand-held broadband receiver that detects eavesdropping devices.”
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