{"id":108048,"date":"2024-12-03T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/undocumented-chinese-immigrant-charged-with-selling-weapons-to-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:04:10","slug":"undocumented-chinese-immigrant-charged-with-selling-weapons-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/undocumented-chinese-immigrant-charged-with-selling-weapons-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Undocumented Chinese immigrant charged with selling weapons to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-03\/News_chineseimmigrant_120324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Shenghua Wen was allegedly moving items to North Korea by concealing them in shipping containers; FBI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(LONG BEACH, Calif.) &#8212; An undocumented Chinese national living in the U.S. has been charged with procuring and shipping guns, ammunition and electronics to North Korea, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Shenghua Wen was allegedly moving items to North Korea by concealing them in shipping containers from Long Beach, California, through Hong Kong and then to North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents in August seized two devices from Wen&#8217;s home that he had allegedly planned to send to North Korea for its military use &#8212; a chemical threat identification device and a handheld broadband receiver, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>In September, over 50,000 rounds of ammo were found in Wen&#8217;s vehicle that he allegedly admitted were heading to North Korea, the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p>Wen entered the United States on a student visa in 2012 and never left, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly met North Korean officials in China before he came to the U.S., the complaint alleges. He was then directed to procure goods on behalf of North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Being in the U.S. illegally, Wen knew he could not buy the goods so he allegedly used other people to purchase the guns through straw purchases, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenghua Wen was allegedly moving items to North Korea by concealing them in shipping containers; FBI (LONG BEACH, Calif.) &#8212; An undocumented Chinese national living in the U.S. has been charged with procuring and shipping guns, ammunition and electronics to North Korea, according to federal prosecutors. Prosecutors say Shenghua Wen<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/undocumented-chinese-immigrant-charged-with-selling-weapons-to-north-korea\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}