Lawyers say plea deal is being pursued for Chinese scientist …
1 day ago · Yunqing Jian, 33, was a researcher at the University of Michigan when she was arrested on June 3. She's accused of helping her boyfriend, another Chinese scientist, try to …
Eastern District of Michigan | Chinese Nationals Charged with ...
Jun 3, 2025 · DETROIT – Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into …
2 Chinese nationals charged with smuggling 'potential …
Jun 3, 2025 · Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of it at the …
Chinese scholar at UM tried to smuggle biological pathogen into …
Jun 3, 2025 · Federal agents have arrested a University of Michigan scholar from China on charges she tried to smuggle a biological pathogen into the United States characterized as a …
2 Chinese researchers charged with smuggling biological …
Jun 4, 2025 · Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that they planned to study at a University of Michigan lab last summer, a complaint filed Tuesday …
Chinese researcher accused of smuggling dangerous biological …
Jun 5, 2025 · Jian, along with her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, are charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the U.S., false statements and visa fraud. Jian is a postdoctoral fellow at …
Chinese couple charged with smuggling a biological pathogen …
Jun 3, 2025 · Yunqing Jian, 33, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged with multiple counts, including conspiracy to defraud …
Chinese national smuggled dangerous 'agroterrorism' pathogen …
Jun 4, 2025 · One of the two Chinese nationals arrested for allegedly smuggling a toxic crop-killing pathogen, which also has devastating health effects on humans, stuffed the noxious …
Chinese agroterrorism suspect and U-M researcher has detention …
Jun 6, 2025 · FOX 2 - A University of Michigan researcher remains in federal custody tonight, accused of helping smuggle a dangerous crop-destroying fungus into the U.S. Yunqing Jian …
Chinese couple charged with smuggling toxic fungus into US
Jun 4, 2025 · The charges against Jian Yunqing, 33, and Liu Zunyong, 34, two researchers from China, were unsealed by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan on …