Posted on 05/26/2026 3:08:40 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Ori Solomon, the property manager arrested in connection with an illegal biolab at a Las Vegas short-term rental, is no longer facing federal charges.
Channel 13 learned that Solomon's federal charges were dismissed without prejudice; however, he still faces a criminal charge in Clark County for the improper disposal of hazardous waste.
This all stems from an investigation after local and federal officials discovered what has been called an illegal biological lab inside a home he managed near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.
Solomon's federal charges came after authorities found multiple firearms at his residence during a search on Jan. 31, 2026. An Israeli citizen in the U.S. on a non-immigrant visa, Solomon is not allowed to possess firearms. Prosecutors say multiple guns were seized from his home, according to an affidavit obtained by Channel 13.
The owner of the property where the suspected lab was found, Jia Bei Zhu, was recently found guilty of fraudulently selling more than a million COVID tests for nearly $4 million through his Fresno-based company Universal Meditech Inc.
As of this report, Solomon is due back in Las Vegas Justice Court on June 4.
Will isn’t that convenient.
With whom is he connected?
> With whom is he connected? <
Either that or he provided important information in return for having the charges dropped.
Was he an absentee landlord and the guns and bio weapons were the Chinese’s? Or vice versa? This reporting is useless….
Channel 13 can’t even do enough investigative reporting to get a copy of the court ruling?!
Chyna?
Move on...
Nothing suspicious here...
Everyone has the right to possess illegal weapons and a bio-weapons lab...
He is not an US citizen.
He is not allowed to have guns.
They found guns in his house and was arrested.
And magically the charges were dropped anyways.
He must have important friends somewhere in the system.
Based on the name I don’t think you are supposed to say the answer out loud
Charges dropped? I’m shocked!
Was it his gun, or was it the chinaman’s? The article doesn’t even say!
The federal charges should NOT have been dropped.
The Israeli dude only had gun violations. He doesn’t even own the so-called “biolab,” a suspicious Chinese entity does. But that didn’t stop “MOSSAD BIOLAB!” nonsense on X for months.
(This is the same interim attorney, mind you, whose authority to serve as US Attorney for Nevada is only de facto, as she has not been confirmed by the Senate, and the interim designations utilized by the Trump Admin to keep her serving without confirmation are legally questionable at best.)
Chattah was appointed by President Trump in March 2025 as interim U.S. Attorney. U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell disqualified Chattah from supervising multiple criminal cases in September 2025, ruling that her authority expired in July 2025 after her initial 120-day interim term. The court found the administration had unlawfully extended her role by reassigning her to a “first assistant U.S. Attorney” title, which the government claimed allowed her to act as acting U.S. Attorney for 210 days. Campbell rejected this, stating it was not how the law intended the interim process to work. While "the first assistant U.S. attorney" (a legal term of art) may perform the duties, that refers to the incumbent first assistant U.S. attorney at the time the office became vacant. The courts have been rejecting the administration notion that after her interim term expired, they could just appoint her as first assistant U.S. attorney and have her perform the duties.
https://www.justice.gov/file/145866-0/dl#page=2
September 5, 2003MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS
We are providing a set of questions and answers that address the means for temporarily filling vacancies in the office of United States Attorney. We hope that this guidance, in this form, will be of practical benefit as vacancies arise.
[excerpt]
Q2. Under the Vacancies Reform Act (and Department of Justice regulations, see 28 C.F.R. § 0.137 (2003)), is the First Assistant U.S. Attorney the person that automatically, by operation of law, would become Acting U.S. Attorney under 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(1)?
A2. Generally yes, in the absence of a prior Attorney General appointment of a United States Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546 or a prior presidential designation of an acting United States Attorney under 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(2) or (3). Under the Vacancies Reform Act, the President (and no one else) could designate as Acting United States Attorney an official already holding a Senate confirmed position, 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(2), or an official who had served in the Department for at least 90 days of the previous 365-day period in a position for which the pay was at least the minimum level for GS-15. 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(3). In the absence of such a presidential designation, the “first assistant” to the office of United States Attorney would serve, id. § 3345(a)(1), except that a first assistant may not act if he has been first assistant for less than 90 days in the 365-day period before the vacancy and the President nominates him for the vacant position, id. § 3345(b)(1)(A). Under the Department’s regulations, each “office within the Department to which appointment is required to be made by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate (‘PAS office’) shall have a First Assistant” under the Vacancies Reform Act, 28 C.F.R. § 0.137(b), and “[w]here there is a position of Principal Deputy to the PAS office, the Principal Deputy shall be the first assistant,” id. Otherwise, the Attorney General names the first assistant in writing. Id. United States Attorneys’ offices frequently have a “First Assistant United States Attorney,” who is the principal deputy to the United States Attorney. Only the occupant of that position could serve as Acting United States Attorney under the “first assistant” provision in 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(1).
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