Amid rising spy concerns, 2 more Chinese students held after shooting photos at base

Flkeysnews ^ | 01 07 2020 | Gwen Filosa and Jay Weaver

[yesthatjallen]

Key West visitors always flock to the town’s favorite tourist spots — Mallory Square, Duval Street, Ernest Hemingway’s home, and the Southernmost Point Buoy — to snap photos and record memories.

But apparently, not students visiting from China. For some reason, they seem to like taking pictures of military facilities in Key West.

The latest — a pair of Chinese nationals attending the University of Michigan — were arrested over the weekend and appeared in federal court in Key West on Monday on a charge of entering a U.S. Naval property for the purpose of photographing defense installations.

Since the fall of last year, a total of four Chinese nationals have been arrested on charges of shooting pictures of military facilities in Key West, drawing the sharp interest of U.S. counterintelligence investigators who have been probing suspected Beijing-led spying activities in South Florida, including visitors to President Donald Trump’s private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach

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[yesthatjallen]

While Democrats are screaming "RUSSIA" China is scoping out our military bases and stealing our technology.

[Bob434]

[[2 more Chinese students held after shooting photos at base]]

hmmm, give all transgenders in the military free cameras and tell them they can only take photos on base with them-

[Andyman]

. . . were arrested after they approached the guard station at Sigsbee Annex in the Naval Air Station, were told to turn around and instead drove onto the restricted property at 8:30 a.m. After a half hour, U.S. Navy Security Forces located the students in their blue Hyundai car . . .

It took 30 minutes to find them on base?

[Tucker39]

Why do I think that all this blatant stuff at Key West is a ruse, to distract attention away from some installation elsewhere that they ACTUALLY care about?

[Blueflag]

It’s a big base, especially if they went off the paved roads.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

I remember walking past one of the closed gates, stopping to take a picture of the chickens and getting hollered at over the remotely-operated loudspeaker that taking photographs there was prohibited.

Imagine my surprise!!!