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Chinese national arrested for photographing Vandenberg Space Force Base with drone
KTLA ^ | December 10, 2024 | by: Josh DuBose

Posted on 12/10/2024 6:29:07 PM PST by artichokegrower

A 39-year-old Chinese national who resides in Brentwood was arrested moments before boarding a flight to China for flying a drone over and photographing Vandenberg Space Force Base late last month, officials announced Monday.

According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Yinpiao Zhou, a Chinese citizen and lawful permanent resident of the U.S., was arrested Dec. 9 at San Francisco International Airport prior to his flight.

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TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brentwood; california; china; chinese; drone; redchina; spaceforce; spydrone; vandenberg; yinpiaozhou
The 39-year-old has been charged with failing to register an aircraft that does not provide transportation and violation of national defense airspace.

If convicted as charged, Zhou would face a maximum sentence of four years in federal prison.


A Chinese spy gets 4 years in prison. WTF!

1 posted on 12/10/2024 6:29:07 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Deport him to Syria.


2 posted on 12/10/2024 6:31:07 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: artichokegrower

“lawful permanent resident”.
NO, a SPY!
One of the few to be detected I am sure.


3 posted on 12/10/2024 6:37:37 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: artichokegrower

Newsom’s personal driver?

The border is wide open to anyone on the planet to enter the U.S. unabated. Spies, cartel members, gangsters, Iranians, cannibals etc...Those in D.C. then hold U.S. citizens at gun point while they seize our tax dollars to pay for this national suicide.

Btw, I’d bet there are more than 5,000 Chinese spies in the U.S.


4 posted on 12/10/2024 6:46:15 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower

diversity has consequences


5 posted on 12/10/2024 6:55:54 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: artichokegrower

How did they catch him at SFO just 3-4 hours after flying the drone? How come they were so efficient on this case?


6 posted on 12/10/2024 6:57:14 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Yes we know you are a Chicom Putin plant here.


7 posted on 12/10/2024 7:07:45 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dragnet2
> The border is wide open to anyone on the planet to enter the U.S. unabated. Spies, cartel members, gangsters, Iranians, cannibals etc...

Not to mention....

.... rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

8 posted on 12/10/2024 7:09:25 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: artichokegrower

I think he should remain permanent resident of the US, for life.

Instead of Brentwood, his new, permanent address should be in Colorado, more specifically, USP Florence ADMAX.


9 posted on 12/10/2024 7:10:16 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam. sic semper tyrannis.)
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To: nwrep

Drone flight occurred “last month”. It’s in the article.


10 posted on 12/10/2024 7:16:21 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

I assume that any mainland Chinese in the USA is a spy.


11 posted on 12/10/2024 7:17:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: dayglored

Nice cut and paste. You get a D for attempt at creativity. ☺


12 posted on 12/10/2024 7:18:19 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
> Nice cut and paste. You get a D for attempt at creativity. ☺

Oh, I wasn't trying for creativity, just that your enumeration reminded me of Hedley's famous list in Blazing Saddles. I copy/pasted because there was no way I'd get the list right from memory. I'll take the D, thanks.

13 posted on 12/10/2024 7:22:23 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: artichokegrower

Question: Does the process when applying for permanent residency (green card) require a statement of allegiance?? It is considered the first step toward citizenship. I don’t know about now, but some years ago a new citizen had to swear allegiance to the USA and renounce citizenship of the former.


14 posted on 12/10/2024 7:33:48 PM PST by elpadre ( )
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To: dayglored

I like the bit about the Methodists...Funny stuff.


15 posted on 12/10/2024 7:46:48 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower

GPS tagged photos are used to provide ground truth for Chinese spy satellite imagery.


16 posted on 12/10/2024 10:57:56 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: artichokegrower

Biden has a habit of letting these Chinese spy’s go.


17 posted on 12/11/2024 12:27:57 AM PST by Revel
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To: artichokegrower

When the old Soviet Union collapsed, people showed up in their cars to watch and take pics and video outside of the local ANG base. We parked single-file on the shoulder of the road at the north end of the main runway and outside the perimeter fence. Some had camcorders and some had still cameras with long lenses. We lined up on the shoulder of the road to see inbound ANG F-16’s, A-7’s and F-4’s in the pattern over the lake. When they came back around, the F-4’s and F-16’s went back out again with a full afterburner/full climb touch & go as if to be putting on an impromptu mini-airshow. Many of those were flying “clean” and had no ordinance or external tanks on them. They were “cleared in hot” for awhile and then more of the F-4’s and A-7’s taxied out to the runway for take-off in pairs. When the Phantoms finally landed, cheers went up as their parachutes popped open. No law enforcement or MP’s bothered anyone out there. However, if somebody had put a drone with a camera on it up there it would would’ve been a different story.


18 posted on 12/11/2024 6:28:48 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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