Kick em all the FUCK OUT
Chinese national couple charged with smuggling crop-killing fungus into US: ‘Potential agroterrorism weapon’
A Chinese national couple was hit with criminal charges Tuesday for allegedly smuggling a dangerous fungus into the US capable of destroying crops and poisoning humans and livestock.
Zunyong Liu, 34, was caught by US Customs and Border Protection officers attempting to smuggle
Fusarium graminearum — a
biological pathogen considered “a potential agroterrorism weapon” — into the US via the Detroit Metropolitan Airport last July, according to a criminal complaint filed in a federal court in the
Eastern District of Michigan.
Liu initially made false statements about his visit to the US and his knowledge of the pathogen before admitting to law enforcement that he was bringing the noxious fungus to his girlfriend, 33-year-old University of Michigan lab researcher Yunqing Jian, according to authorities.