Posted on 09/13/2026 3:24:18 PM PDT by Twotone
A 22-year-old University of Waterloo student made 24 trips across the U.S. border to covertly map critical airport infrastructure for a suspected Chinese intelligence handler.
According to a 19-page FBI affidavit filed in federal court, Chinese citizen Weiheng Zeng was arrested at the Ambassador Bridge in August 2026. Surveillance cameras at Chicago O’Hare previously caught him climbing forklifts, walking fence lines, and trying to open locked shipping containers at a FedEx facility. He carried out a similar operation at Toronto Pearson airport after being confronted inside by an employee.
To evade North American surveillance, Zeng used a dedicated Huawei phone with China Telecom SIM cards mailed from overseas every few months, routing all communications directly through Chinese provider networks. He was paid $20 to $30 per accepted photo into a Bank of China account, earning roughly $500 total while his contact urged him to expand target sites to airports in Orlando, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
When federal agents inspected his phone, they discovered images of military aircraft alongside photos of Zeng posing in tactical gear with rifle-style weapons. Charged with making false statements after giving changing stories to federal agents, Zeng remains in custody as a flight risk.
Nothing violent, just stealing our technology to leapfrog us.
See a Chinese and you see a Spy ,LOL
"No Weiheng!"
"Weiheng!"
Not the best or most descriptive title.
That may be what journalists call “burying the lede.”
This deserves much more coverage. I did not know this was possible. It shows a potential way to communicate without our government surveillance. I doubt their is a way to do it without CCP cooperation, though...
“Zeng used a dedicated Huawei phone with China Telecom SIM cards mailed from overseas every few months, routing all communications directly through Chinese provider networks.
The Chinese SIM may have blocked knowing the identity of the owner, but probably easily identified the phone as Chinese.
>>>Nothing violent, just stealing our technology to leapfrog us.
Instead of ‘leapfrog’ probably more like ‘me too!
3 usual product development schemes.
1) me too
2) stretch
3) leap frog
Not The Craw!
The CRAW!
Don’t worry, you’ll still be excoriated for not using the proper title...
-PJ
hang the POS.
Nothing they haven’t been doing for the last 30 years.
He would be just another statistic if he died in a car crash or from Covid.
This is creepy! I wonder how many others are doing the same type of thing.
I saw the Chinese college kids collecting samples from the seed corn rows in Iowa in the 80s all nicely labeled, they’ve been at it a while.
TRAITOR
I agree.
Maybe they’ll quit coming.
If you look a his pics on the internet, he was definitely an operative.
A county sheriff arrested one in Oregon too.
He was photographing all the way from N.CA to WA….airports, military, power stations, etc.
Yikes. Broader implications here.
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