Posted on 04/12/2025 5:04:50 PM PDT by Libloather
An alleged sushi-slinging spy is in ICE custody.
Ming Xi Zhang, known as “Sushi John,” the 61-year-old owner of Ya Ya Noodles in Montgomery Township, NJ, was arrested March 24 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark.
Zhang was convicted in April 2024 of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government and sentenced to three years’ probation. In May 2021, he pleaded guilty to having served as an agent of China in 2016 without notifying the U.S. Attorney General.
ICE says he legally entered the U.S. in 2000 but later “violated the terms of his lawful admission.”
“Any illegal alien conducting activities related to espionage, sabotage or export control against the United States is subject to deportation,” said ICE Newark Field Office Director John Tsoukaris.
Zhang met with Chinese security officials in the Bahamas in 2016 and delivered $35,000 to an unnamed individual in New Jersey, according to NJ.com. He also admitted to twice hosting a Chinese government agent at his Princeton home that fall.
He’s being held at the Elizabeth Detention Center awaiting immigration proceedings, a worker at his restaurant told the Post on Saturday.
“He’s doing good, I mean, given the circumstances,” the worker said. “But yeah, he’s just kind of waiting… to get let out.”
The community surrounding Zhang’s restaurant has apparently rallied around him and his restaurant in the days since his arrest.
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Should have “disappeared” him and deny any knowledge of him.
Chinese spy?
Hang him.
A Chinese guy running a sushi bar. they should have known he was spy.
Deport him to El Salvador if China won’t take him back.
He can cook for MS 13 in the Big House.
I learned something just now. I was sure sushi was Japanese but it originated in China. When husband and I went out for sushi in SF, we always went to Japanese restaurants. Yum, fresh out of the ocean.
Anyway this guy needs to be run over by a truck.
Make mine tuna maki with a side order of espionage. (CCP)
No more noodles for you! Yah, you.
I hate to break it to you but half of the Japanese sushi places in US are ran by Chinese owners.
She was married for a couple years to a guy named Blitzstein, sooo the sushi bar was named ‘Sosumi’ for a while.
Sushi did not originate in China. Preserving fish in rice did, but that’s not sushi. That’s like saying Hamburgers originated in Germany.
He’s probably one of thousands of chink spies in the US.
The other CCP agents are democrats.
“A Chinese guy running a sushi bar. “
Meow?
Catfish.
Just cap him! Problem solved
Pronto.
Exactly.
Lots of non-Japanese Asians running sushi joints in the US . Noticed it years ago when visiting from Japan . Most Americans can’t tell the difference .
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