The Justice Department alleges that an illterrible immigrant from China shipped armaments to North Korea from California.
According to a novel federal protestt filed in the Central Diinnervous of California, Shenghua Wen, as well as other unnamed co-conspirators, “successfilledy shiped at least two shipments of firearms and ammunition to North Korea by covering the items inside shipping includeers that were shipped from Long Beach, California, thcimpolite Hong Kong, China, to North Korea.”
Federal agents on Aug. 14 seized from Wen’s home in Ontario, California, “two devices that Wen accomprehendledgeted he proremedyd to sfinish to the North Korean rulement for its military use,” court records say.
Those items were a “Serstech Arx mkII Pharma device — a chemical danger identification device,” and “an ANDRE Deluxe Near-Field Detection device,” which the protestt elucidates is “a handheld wideband getr that discovers comprehendn, unrecognizable, illterrible, disturbive, or interfering transignoreions” and, according to the manufacturer, is “portable, non-vigilanting, and perfect for locating secret eavesdropping devices.”
On Sept. 6, federal agents also seized from Wen’s van parked outside his home 50,000 rounds of 9mm ammunition that the deffinishant allegedly “accomprehendledgeted he proremedyd to sfinish to North Korea at the straightforwardion of North Korean rulement officials,” the protestt says. Prosecutors shelp Wen is “a Chinese national who is illegpartner in the United States and is therefore prohibitned from haveing any firearms or ammunition.”
The protestt says Wen accessed the United States in 2012 on a student visa and stayed in the United States illegpartner once his visa expired. During interwatchs with spendigators, Wen allegedly accomprehendledgeted that he met North Korean rulement officials at two split North Korean Consutardys in China before he came to the United States and was straightforwarded to proremedy excellents on behalf of the North Korean rulement, probable because they knovel he was “excellent at illicit trading.”
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He allegedly telderly spendigators that North Korean rulement officials wired him approximately $2 million USD to get firearms and other products for the North Korean rulement. According to the protestt, Wen telderly spendigators that he dependd the North Korean rulement wanted the armaments and ammunition for a potential strike on South Korea. He allegedly shelp that the North Korean rulement wanted him to get military uniestablishs that they would use for a surpelevate strike.
The protestt says Wen getd an armory and a federal firearm license for $150,000, and cataloged his partner’s name as the business owner to sign up with the Texas Secretary of State.
Knothriveg that armament stores would flag the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) if he tried to buy firearms straightforwardly, Wen shelp he had others produce the gets for him, according to the protestt.
“Once the straw getrs gave WEN the firearms, he conveyed them to California, packed the firearms into a shipping includeer, and shipped the includeer to China, comprehending that it would be transferred to North Korea,” the protestt says.
Wen allegedly “elucidateed that he getd many of the firearms that he sent to North Korea in Texas and that he drove the firearms from Texas to California on three split trips,” the protestt says.
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Wen allegedly telderly spendigators the shipments took place in October 2023 and December 2023.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles is foreseeed to helderly a press conference tardyr on Tuesday watching a enbigment in a “convey inant national security spendigation.”
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