2 Chinese national arrested with gold bullion

[d_marsh]

Article:

Two Chinese nationals who were in our country illegally were just arrested in Texas with $250k in gold bullion.

25-year-old Weijian Chen and 46-year-old Wenqiang Lin each entered our country illegally at the southern border in 2023. Both have been arrested, and both have been charged with money laundering and are in jail in east Texas.
Their story is an interesting one, and I'll give you the details below.

The duo boarded a plane from Los Angeles to Atlanta on July 30 of this year, and were stopped in Georgia on July 31 for a traffic violation. Becoming suspicious of the Chinese nationals, the officer used a narcotics dog to search the vehicle, though to no avail.
Due to his overwhelming suspicion, the officer called on the rental car company the duo had rented from and asked them to track their vehicle. Interestingly enough, the duo had gone and switched out their vehicle for a different model after they'd been searched by police. Still, Corporal Thomas of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Criminal Interdiction Unit was able to track them.

The officer determined that the duo had traveled north to Marietta, an area in Georgia known for its cartel activity.

https://notthebee.com/article/two-c...t-arrested-in-texas-with-250k-in-gold-bullion

 

[Patchouli]

It’s good they were caught. But how many are not caught?
How do they get possession of gold like that, in that form? (Yes, I’m probably the only person on the forum that wouldn’t know).

 

[Neb]

Article:

Two Chinese nationals who were in our country illegally were just arrested in Texas with $250k in gold bullion.

25-year-old Weijian Chen and 46-year-old Wenqiang Lin each entered our country illegally at the southern border in 2023. Both have been arrested, and both have been charged with money laundering and are in jail in east Texas.
Their story is an interesting one, and I'll give you the details below.

The duo boarded a plane from Los Angeles to Atlanta on July 30 of this year, and were stopped in Georgia on July 31 for a traffic violation. Becoming suspicious of the Chinese nationals, the officer used a narcotics dog to search the vehicle, though to no avail.
Due to his overwhelming suspicion, the officer called on the rental car company the duo had rented from and asked them to track their vehicle. Interestingly enough, the duo had gone and switched out their vehicle for a different model after they'd been searched by police. Still, Corporal Thomas of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Criminal Interdiction Unit was able to track them.

The officer determined that the duo had traveled north to Marietta, an area in Georgia known for its cartel activity.

https://notthebee.com/article/two-c...t-arrested-in-texas-with-250k-in-gold-bullion

6.5 lbs

Ben

 

[d_marsh]

It’s good they were caught. But how many are not caught?
How do they get possession of gold like that, in that form? (Yes, I’m probably the only person on the forum that wouldn’t know).

I presume the Chinese gov't or some South American government gave it to them to complete whatever mission they were assigned to.

 

[Caribou]

It’s good they were caught. But how many are not caught?
How do they get possession of gold like that, in that form? (Yes, I’m probably the only person on the forum that wouldn’t know).

You can go down with cash and buy up to $10,000 dollars, each, per day of PM’s without showing ID. Then you can go to another gold seller and do the same thing. In a large city the two of them could change a quarter of a million in a day or two. Since they came across the border illegally they could have brought it with them.

 

[old tex]

I can't say that I'm all that excited about this story. What our police should be looking for is terrorists. I'm betting that there are hundreds if not thousands of them floating around our country freely.

 

[Morgan101]

6.5 lbs

Ben

I did the same thing, Ben. Gold is heavy. Nice to see a Local LEO with that much tenacity to stay on the trail. Give that guy a promotion.

 

[12icemaker]

You can buy and hold Gold in Switzerland all of the transactions under 10,000 are not reported, you can then store that gold FREE of charge for 1 year convert it near the end of the year make a final transaction of 10,000 or less and consolidate it into a kilo bar and they will ship it free of charge to their Texas vault to be held for another year free of charge.

 

[Morgan101]

I can't say that I'm all that excited about this story. What our police should be looking for is terrorists. I'm betting that there are hundreds if not thousands of them floating around our country freely.

Who is to say these two weren't terrorists? They were certainly up to no good. When did they enter the country? How did they come up with $250K?

 

[Mountain trapper]

Yes, they were illegal aliens and should have been deported. But why do so many people think that if someone has a few pounds of gold that they are up to no good?

 

[Tirediron]

Yes, they were illegal aliens and should have been deported. But why do so many people think that if someone has a few pounds of gold that they are up to no good?

Be cause big brother can't track it ,

 

[Caribou]

Yes, they were illegal aliens and should have been deported. But why do so many people think that if someone has a few pounds of gold that they are up to no good?

They are criminals. They entered the country illegally. Whether cash or gold that is a lot of funds to be packing around, especially for a foreigner. When they got pulled over they exchanged the vehicle for one with different plates, so all the road cameras can’t track the old rental car. We know that China ships tons of drugs into America. The article states that they were tracked into a known drug area. I find it reasonable to assume that the gold was a payment for a drug shipment, or multiple drug shipments. That would explain why they disclaimed ownership of the gold.

 

[old tex]

Yes, they were illegal aliens and should have been deported. But why do so many people think that if someone has a few pounds of gold that they are up to no good?

The US has a LOT of enemies around the world. I would suspect ANYONE coming into our country that wasn't vetted as a terrorist. And if our government doesn't suspect that they could be terrorist then they are MORONS! And it's not as if the Chinese walked from their country across our border to enter this country. Someone paid for an airplane ticket , who was it them or their government? Gold doesn't scare me, how about a more powerful strain of Covid or worse? That worries the hell out of me. Maybe because I can't invest money & make a killing in the stock market while sitting in a shelter somewhere while people die.