- Federal agents arrested two Chinese researchers for smuggling a fungus into the U.S. that requires a permit. Zunyong Liu was coming to the U.S. to visit his girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, who worked at a research lab at the University of Michigan when he was caught with four samples of Fusarium graminearum. A federal investigation found this wasn’t the first time they’d done so.
Two Chinese researchers have been charged with multiple federal crimes as part of a monthslong plan to smuggle a biological pathogen into the U.S. that investigators referred to as a “potential agroterrorism weapon,” according to recently unsealed federal-court filings.
