FBI Arrest Chinese Spies Operating Illegal Police Station In New York

In a press release on Monday, the Department of Justice announced the arrests of two individuals in Manhattan: Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59. They were charged with conspiring to act as CCP spies and operating an illegal police station.

The FBI arrested two New York residents with conspiring to act as agents of China's government, by operating an illegal police station, and acting as spies.

In a Monday press release, the Department of Justice announced the arrests of Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, in connection with the undeclared police station in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood. They will be prosecuted in the Eastern District of New York, and are expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn.

The two admitted to the FBI that they deleted their communications with a CCP official after discovering they were under investigation.

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