Atlanta – The news was small, and noted only by a Twitter account called “Las Vegas Locally”, which reported that “Mortenson Construction workers and trash company employees (not Republic Services) have been arrested, according to an inside source” and went like this:
The FBI and LVMPD are at Allegiant Stadium right now arresting people.
— Las Vegas Locally ? (@LasVegasLocally) April 28, 2020
And…
Apparently some very valuable construction equipment has been stolen over the past few months. Some of it was found in a scrap yard in North Las Vegas.
— Las Vegas Locally ? (@LasVegasLocally) April 28, 2020
And…
A few Mortenson Construction workers and trash company employees (not Republic Services) have been arrested, according to an inside source.
— Las Vegas Locally ? (@LasVegasLocally) April 28, 2020
And I must note, there was no follow-up by “Las Vegas Locally”, the next day. Only Twitter’s Jack Dorsey wins in that case, because “Las Vegas Locally” is a “virtual media” (as I call it) site: without its own website and a content slave to Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. (You can’t get press credentials for events like CES Las Vegas or The NFL Draft doing “virtual media”.).
Trouble is, it was hard to locate any arrest involving Mortenson Construction workers and trash company employees that actually happened at the Las Vegas Stadium site (meaning roads including Russell Road, Polaris, and Dean Martin) on the 28th of April of 2020, or Tuesday, save for one that has its location just immediately south of the stadium grounds, and marked: POLARIS AVE / W QUAIL AVE.
According to SpotCrime, two women were the focus of FBI arrests next to Raiders stadium at 7:58 AM:
YANQING YE 30 Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Government; Visa Fraud; Making False Statements; Conspiracy Federal Bureau of Investigation Las Vegas
SYBIL MARIA ROGERS 46 Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance; Apparent Violation of Pretrial Release Conditions Federal Bureau of Investigation Las Vegas
This may seem meaningless, and as usual, the pr- mainstream media didn’t focus on them, or on the Las Vegas Locally tweet. The Las Vegas Locally tweet I earlier describes as pointing to an alleged crime, and simply because there was no photo or video – just words about a “source” and that’s it.
But Las Vegas Locally, and others viewing that tweet, should have dug for more information. What I learned in a search for “YANQING YE” was disturbing, and combined with SYBIL MARIA ROGERS, seems to imply that the pair was working together in some way.
Sybil Maria Rogers is accused of “Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance”, and is pictured as being with Yanqing Le, who’s alleged details are frightening: she’s reported as an agent in the Chinese Army. Moreover, news reports based on the FBI arrest warrant about her, mention two other Chinese nationals.
The account is that, and I quote from here: “Ye was charged in federal indictments Tuesday, (January 28th, 2020) along with Dr. Charles Lieber, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, and Chinese national Zaosong Zheng, with aiding China and hiding their connections to the country.
So, note that an arrest warrant was issued January 28th, 2020, for Ms. Le – that means the FBI started looking for her, then. Now it appears she was arrested in Las Vegas, next to Las Vegas Stadium, by the FBI. (The local crime-mapping site has no arrest recordlocal crime-mapping site has no arrest record for that day, as of now.)
Specifically, Yanqing Le was accused of trying to steal military secrets, but that’s from January, and would not seem to have anything to do with her arrest in Las Vegas next to Allegiant Stadium. And what about Sybil Maria Rogers? She is said to be wanted for her “alleged involvement in distributing a controlled substance in South Dakota,” and likes to gamble.
So, there would appears to be nothing but circumstance – except that both Ye and Chinese national Zaosong Zheng are accused of not only hiding their connections to China, but Zaosong Zheng, according to the Daily Beast was..
Zaosong Zheng was stopped at Boston Logan International Airport on Dec. 9, where federal agents determined him to be a “high risk for possibly exporting undeclared biological material” after finding 21 vials of brown liquid with typed and handwritten notes wrapped in a plastic bag inside a sock in his checked luggage, according to an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Kara Spice
But that accusation does not extend to Yanqing Le.
This is a developing blog post.
Stay tuned.