Overview
- SWAT officers and the FBI executed a pre-dawn search on Sugar Springs Drive and found biological material, including vials with unknown liquids, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
- One suspect was taken into custody, authorities withheld the person’s name, and officials emphasized there is no threat to the public.
- Nevada business filings and property records connect the home’s owning LLC to Jia Bei Zhu, also known as David He, and to Zhaoyan Wang.
- Federal prosecutors allege Zhu and Wang imported and sold hundreds of thousands of unauthorized diagnostic test kits, generated more than $1.7 million, and face an April jury trial in the Eastern District of California.
- A 2023 congressional report on a Reedley, California site tied to Zhu described thousands of labeled vials and roughly 1,000 mice, noted the CDC did not test samples, and concluded the materials did not indicate a mass-casualty bioweapons effort.