Chinese national charged with photographing US stealth bomber base after illegal entry

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday that a Chinese nationalist was arrested past period aft allegedly photographing 2 U.S. Air Force bases and its subject equipment, including B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.

Authorities identified the 35-year-old arsenic Qilin Wu, who entered the U.S. illegally successful 2023 adjacent the Arizona-Mexico border. While Qu was initially arrested by migration authorities, helium was aboriginal released owed to a deficiency of detention abstraction and was fixed an migration removal proceeding scheduled for 2027, officials said. 

The attorney's bureau said investigators archetypal caught Wu connected Dec. 2 adjacent Whiteman Air Force Base, location to the military's B‑2 Spirit stealth bomber fleet, an exceptionally delicate plus owed to its atomic and stealth capabilities.

After initially receiving a warning, Wu reportedly returned the pursuing day. Authorities past arrested Wu, who was allegedly recovered successful possession of 18 photos and videos of the base. He besides admitted to taking photos of different U.S. Air Force base, officials said, without naming the 2nd location.

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A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber takes disconnected from a field.  (Whiteman Air Force Base)

Wu has been charged successful national tribunal successful the Western District of Missouri. He faces 1 number of taking photographs of a captious subject installation and subject instrumentality without authorization.

Officials said that connected Dec. 2, a suspicious minivan with a Massachusetts licence sheet was reported adjacent the perimeter of Whiteman Air Force Base. Patrol officers past recovered Wu, who said helium was determination to observe the B‑2 Spirit aircraft, and informed him that helium was not permitted to instrumentality photographs oregon grounds video of the subject installation. 

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A unit subordinate directs a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber astatine Whiteman Air Force Base. (Whiteman Air Force Base)

The adjacent day, patrol officers were notified of the aforesaid minivan nearby, the attorney's bureau said. Agents reportedly recovered Wu again, who admitted to taking videos of the B‑2 Spirit craft and galore photographs of the base, including its perimeter fencing, a gross and subject equipment. Wu handed implicit his phone, which contained 18 images and videos, and admitted to authorities that helium photographed different U.S. Air Force basal and its aircraft, officials said. 

According to tribunal documents, Wu is simply a Chinese nationalist who illegally entered the United States connected June 22, 2023, adjacent Nogales, Arizona, but was released aft promising to be migration removal proceedings scheduled for Feb. 9, 2027, officials said.

A fleet of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are seen connected a runway astatine Whiteman Air Force Base.  (Whiteman Air Force Base)

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If convicted, Wu could look up to 1 twelvemonth successful national prison. 

The lawsuit was investigated by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Air Force Security Forces and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, officials said.