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A man charged in an investigation into an alleged biolab operation in Las Vegas has also been accused of illegally keeping firearms in his home, according to multiple reports citing a federal complaint. Ori Solomon, 55, the property manager of the location where the alleged laboratory was discovered, faces state charges for allegedly disposing and discharging hazardous waste, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said in a press conference on Monday. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Newsweek, he is also accused of illegally keeping firearms, including a Glock handgun, after a federal search warrant was issued for...

The story on that illegal Chinese biological lab found in Las Vegas keeps getting creepier. Recent news about the discovery of an illegal Chinese biological lab full of contagious disease specimens in Las Vegas is starting to sound a lot worse than the coverage it's getting would suggest: According to news accounts, the lab, which was located inside an airBNB house, which accomodated paying guests, seems to have left at least some of the guests "deathly ill," according to this local television report: [video at link] All that good money for Hunter on the line, perhaps. Hunter used to get...

“ LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department provided an update on the investigation into an alleged illegal biological lab found in a northeast Las Vegas home on Saturday. Metro Police and the FBI served a search warrant at a house near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday. Investigators recovered "evidence of possible biological material, including refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids," according to LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill. Clark County records show the home is owned by David Destiny Discovery, LLC, registered to a Chinese national, Jia Bei Zhu, who is linked to...

Federal and local authorities have uncovered what they allege was an illegal biological laboratory operating inside a Las Vegas home owned by a Chinese national. Newly released footage from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows a dramatic hazmat response as agents hauled bags of medical tubing, vials and containers filled with unknown liquids from the suburban property. During a press briefing on Monday, LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill revealed investigators discovered a 'significant volume of material' stored in refrigerators and freezers throughout the home, including vials and containers holding liquids of varying colors and compositions. Investigators also located 'pathogen-labeled containers'...

In the garage, investigators found multiple refrigerators with vials of unknown liquids, unknown liquids in gallon-size containers, a centrifuge and other laboratory equipment, authorities said. In an open refrigerator and freezer, investigators saw a "significant volume of material," including vials and storage containers "with liquids of different colors and compositions," McMahill said. "The scene presented a high level of complexity with materials that have not yet been identified and still require careful assessment," McMahill said.

A suspected biological laboratory raided by Metro police and the FBI may be connected to a similar incident in California, where officials found infectious agents such as HIV and malaria, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. Police and the FBI searched the home on Saturday, Jan. 31, finding a “possible biological laboratory,” including “refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids,” police said. Shortly before 6 a.m., a Metro SWAT team served a search warrant at the home on Sugar Springs Drive near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard to search for a possible “biological laboratory” inside the home. A second location...

Who is the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization? Look no further than the grand accuser and the one who sits high and mighty in judgment of others. Earlier this week, Ukraine openly boasted of assassinating a top Russian general outside his home in Moscow. Lt. General Igor Kirillov was killed when a bomb attached to a scooter was detonated remotely upon him leaving his apartment early in the morning. One of his assistants was also killed. Russia on Tuesday criticized Ukraine’s Western allies, accusing them of being complicit in the general’s murder. It was easy to come to this conclusion...

A Georgia environmental official died after suddenly collapsing near the state Capitol on Tuesday during a public meeting on last month’s toxic chemical plant inferno outside Atlanta, officials said. Kenny Johnson, the Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor, testified alongside business owners and leaders about the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, about 25 miles outside Atlanta, which spewed clouds of hazardous chlorine gas and smoke throughout the area. Shortly afterward, the 62-year-old collapsed and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said that due to the circumstances of Johnson’s death,...

A Georgia environment boss collapsed suddenly on Tuesday and later died in the hospital - on the same day after testifying about the BioLab chemical explosion. Kenny Johnson, 62, was Rockdale's state representative supervisor for soil and water conservation. He testified about the BioLab chemical fire that spewed clouds of chlorine gas and smoke in Conyers - where Johnson lived with his family. He later collapsed near the state Capitol and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital where he died. During his recorded testimony, Johnson claimed this was the second time he had asked for a criminal investigation - the...

Large fire at BioLab in Conyers, Georgia sends massive plume of smoke over sky, I-20 being blocked off, residents told to leave

Don’t call it gain of function. Call it creating new life or something similarly uplifting.Whatever you call it, know that it is dangerous as hell to play God."Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100% lethal in mice—despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic."https://t.co/h7vWVDRgVb pic.twitter.com/gWjsHcmPsY— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) January 16, 2024In the wake of a plandemic that killed millions of people, caused by a bug that likely escaped from a Chinese biolab that was funded by the US government, the Chinese have decided to double down on playing with viruses that have the...

An Epoch Times investigation has revealed further details on Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu, the person behind the black-market biolab discovered in California, as well as his connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).The warehouse interior of a suspected biolab, in Reedley, Calif., on July 31, 2023. (Nathan Su/The Epoch Times)The secret biolab operated in a warehouse in Reedley, California, about 25 miles southeast of Fresno. It was discovered on Dec. 19, 2022, by Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement officer with the City of Reedley Fire Department.In the warehouse, Ms. Harper discovered thousands of vials of infectious agents, including coronavirus, chlamydia, E....

As Brian Lupo reported back in July – An illegal bio lab was discovered in a believed-to-be vacant building in Reedley, California in Fresno County. City code enforcement stumbled upon the building in December 2022 when they discovered a garden hose running up into the building through a hole in the wall. In March 2023, they obtained a warrant to inspect the property, and in April, the Fresno County Department of Public Health ordered an inspection of the facility. Investigators inspected the building that contained the lab in July and found a room used to make COVID-19 tests and pregnancy...

Thousands of vials of biological substances — including some labeled “HIV” — and a freezer marked “Ebola” were found inside a secret Chinese-owned biolab in California which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FBI initially refused to investigate, according to a House committee report released Wednesday. The illegal lab was operated in the city of Reedley, Calif., and the potential public safety risk it posed only came to light in December 2022 when Jesalyn Harper, an observant code enforcement officer, noticed a green garden hose sticking out of a hole in the side of a warehouse that was...

The discovery of a black market Chinese biolab operating in California, and the subsequent investigation into it, has exposed a tangled web of shell companies obscuring ownership and loopholes that caused delays in cleanup and informing the public. The public found out in March about a secret biolab operating in a warehouse in Reedley, California, about 25 miles southeast of Fresno. But the warehouse and its biological hazards were discovered months earlier, on Dec. 19, 2022, by Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement officer with the City of Reedley Fire Department. Responding to an anonymous tip about the supposedly vacant warehouse,...

The discovery of a black market Chinese biolab operating in California, and the subsequent investigation into it, has exposed a tangled web of shell companies obscuring ownership and loopholes that caused delays in cleanup and informing the public. The public found out in March about a secret biolab operating in a warehouse in Reedley, California, about 25 miles southeast of Fresno. But the warehouse and its biological hazards were discovered months earlier, on Dec. 19, 2022, by Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement officer with the City of Reedley Fire Department. Responding to an anonymous tip about the supposedly vacant warehouse,...

Suspicions were raised about the operations of a Chinese-linked biolab in central California far earlier than previously known, according to a review of hundreds of internal emails, documents and photographs obtained by Fox News. Two California state agencies called on by the city of Fresno to intervene in the matter tell Fox they had no authority to get involved but the delay of local and state officials to take action in fall 2022 appears to have allowed lab workers to empty a warehouse full of dangerous biological agents, lab mice, chemicals and equipment. A trove of emails obtained through a...

....The county department of public health offered a presentation at Tuesday’s board meeting, breaking down the timeline of the lab operations...

...A Chinese-backed biolab in California was awarded over half a million dollars in US taxpayer cash, records show. The black market lab - which was raided earlier this year - was found to be making illegal Covid and pregnancy tests and storing disease-riddled mice and hundreds of samples of pathogens, blood, and other dubious chemicals.... ...Universal Meditech was also awarded a massive $360,000 tax credit in 2018 through California Gov. Gavin Newsom's CalCompetes program - though UMI's inability to meet program guidelines meant it never actually received those funds....

The discovery last month of a Chinese COVID biolab in California shocked the nation, but likely came as no surprise to the state’s Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom.Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden share a moment. / PHOTO: APHe helped fund it.The now-notorious secret facility, which contained a massive stockpile of “infectious agents,” including coronavirus, and nearly a thousand dead lab mice and vials of unidentified biological fluids, also likely came as no surprise to the Biden administration.The FDA last year issued a recall warning for nearly 54,000 COVID rapid tests manufactured by the company that owned the lab.Fresno County...