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The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was cuffed by federal law enforcement on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Zhang's husband Edric Ding, a realtor at the same firm, told CBS News when reached by phone Sunday: "I don't know anything yet," and declined to comment further. It was not immediately clear if Zhang...

A California realtor has been arrested at LAX after being accused of spying for China. Wanying Zhang, also known as "Heather," was busted at the airport Sunday as she tried to board a flight to Shanghai. The 34-year-old, who lives in Irvine, Orange County, is accused of working with handlers from the People's Republic of China to surveil the son of Taiwan's president Ching-Te Lai. 'We have a problem with Beijing using Chinese-Americans for their own purposes in California," AG Bill Essayli said. "They are using them for their own foreign affairs because they are playing the long game to...