Second Suspect Biolab Tied to Chinese Citizen Raises Urgent Questions on U.S. Biosecurity Oversight
FBI, SWAT, and HazMat Teams swoop down on Las Vegas home, tied to a China-connected biolab in Reedley, California.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall a series of posts I did in the summer of 2023 about a China-connected biology laboratory in Reedley, California.
According to officials who responded to the discovery and remediated the site, the company was working with more than 20 infectious agents, ostensibly for the development of diagnostic kits. The pathogens included herpes, HIV, chlamydia, coronavirus, hepatitis, and even Ebola.
Eventually, the facility was traced back to a Chinese man, Jesse Zhu, who was paid millions of dollars by China and had links to that nation’s military.
By the fall of 2023, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party completed its own investigation. One of the members of that committee slammed the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their lack of interest in this case, saying the Select Committee’s final report, “reads like a movie script and a horror movie script, when you detail all of those things that were missed”.
Over 2 years later, with a new President and more robustly active administrators, the FBI, a HazMat Team, and SWAT swooped down on a Las Vegas home that appears connected with the Reedley lab.
A suspected biological laboratory raided by Metro police and the FBI may be connected to a similar incident in California, where officials found infectious agents such as HIV and malaria, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.
Police and the FBI searched the home on Saturday, Jan. 31, finding a “possible biological laboratory,” including “refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids,” police said.
Shortly before 6 a.m., a Metro SWAT team served a search warrant at the home on Sugar Springs Drive near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard to search for a possible “biological laboratory” inside the home. A second location was also searched, but no lab was located.
An LLC tied to the home’s county records matches the name of a company that is part of an ongoing federal case in California involving a biological laboratory there, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. In that case, a Chinese citizen, David He, faces federal charges for allegedly manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices, according to federal prosecutors.
Property records show that the Northeast Las Vegas home raided by the FBI and Las Vegas police is owned by an LLC linked to a similar biolab operation in California. https://t.co/KZ3tSm4859
— KSNV News 3 Las Vegas (@News3LV) February 1, 2026
In October 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of Jia Bei Zhu, a 62-year-old Chinese citizen, in connection with the Reedley lab. He is a man of many names: Jesse Zhu, Qiang He, and David He.
Zhu, who previously lived in Clovis, was arrested on charges of manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as well as making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration.
David He, also known as Jia Bei Zhu, and his romantic and business partner, Zhaoyan Wang, are listed in property records as owners of the Sugar Springs residence, where hazardous materials teams began their investigation Saturday morning.
🧵Ahead of a 3 PM press conference about the Las Vegas biolab – connected with Reedley illegal biolab operator/CCP functionary Jia Bei Zhu/David He/Qiang He – raided Saturday AM…
2 points to highlight:
1. Zhu's ties to the CCP are not a "conspiracy theory" – they were… pic.twitter.com/QKHYjBnwDe
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) February 2, 2026
Reports indicate one suspect has been taken into custody, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force has taken over the investigation due to the nature of the materials found on-site.
Sheriff Kevin McMahill called the investigation “extremely complex” during a Saturday news conference, noting that one suspect was taken into custody. The sheriff assured residents this was an isolated incident with no threat to the public.
“This has to be a slow and methodical process by design,” McMahill said. “We have to take these situations very seriously, and we take all necessary precautions to keep our personnel and community safe.”
Law enforcement sources told ABC News that the investigation began as a code-violation call before the Joint Terrorism Task Force took over when authorities suspected illegal medical-type biological research materials might be stored at the property.
Property records show an LLC tied to the Sugar Springs home matches the name of a company involved in an ongoing federal case in California. In that case, a Chinese citizen faces federal charges for allegedly manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices.
Investigators are currently searching 20 other locations to determine whether there might be any connection to this search.
The troubling extent of illegal and unsafe biological research linked to Chinese nationals underscores how essential it is for U.S. authorities to maintain close oversight of scientific and industrial operations, especially those involving foreign funding or opaque affiliations.
The Reedley and Las Vegas incidents serve as stark warnings of the risks posed by unmonitored research activities that cross legal, ethical, and biosecurity boundaries. Transparency, accountability, and firm enforcement are not optional, rather they are the first line of defense in protecting public health and national security.
Biosecurity cannot be left to chance; systematic monitoring of who is doing what, where, and with which pathogens is a basic requirement of national defense, not a bureaucratic luxury.
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Gee… who the hell let these people in? 🙄🙄🙄
Treason, thy name is Joe Biden!
Let’s be honest here, Every single president and probably half of congress has bent over backward for China since Nixon./Kissinger. We should have left them isolated. It would have been safer for us and for the rest of the world. I’m sorry to say that but their communism is not like Russian communism because their people and society are nothing like Russia.
Correction… they bent over forwars, and grabbed their ankles.
During the 80’s the business schools championed international trade under the notion that if you developed trade with you neighbor that you’d be less likely to get in their shite as it would be impacting your country as well (and vice versa). The mutual dependency mantra was just another step in creating and selling the one-world-order theme.
It’s a logical assumption. However it assumes your opposition thinks like you do.
Take Japan for instance. They’re very protective of their industry. They’re capitalist but they coordinate efforts through the government, They are willing to take losses in oversea sales in order to build market share and drive the overseas competitors out of markets by offsetting them with outrageous prices to their domestic customers. They don’t think like we do and their goals and timeframe are different.
It also (stupidly) assumes they’re not seeking their own advantage. Which is probably one of the stupidest ways Progressivism ignores human nature. (Subsidies, etc.)
And who the hell let’s these people stay in the United States . . . hypocrisy, thy name is Trump.
Trump saying 600,000 Chinese students could come to the US draws MAGA backlash
Gee. how about we kick the chinese out of the country. Everything they do is for China’s benefit and nothing is for ours. Start with the half million Chinese (spies) students.
No legitimate government operates for the benefit of another country when that benefit is extended at a cost to its own citizens.
You can enter into a win-win situation that provides some benefits to another country while not disadvantaging your own.
Also, by your definition US governments haven’t been legitimate since at least WW1,
Well, that’s comforting
faucis house??
Just about every Chinese national in the USA has ties to the CCP. Their entry should be limited and we need to keep track of them.
Second Suspect Biolab Tied to Chinese Citizen Raises Urgent Questions on U.S. Biosecurity Oversight
Huh? Did Biolab tie the suspect to a Chinese citizen? Because without a “that” in there it’s not real clear.
The guy was arrested in October 2023. It has taken this long for his “lab work” to be taken seriously?? The original story received very little coverage in the media, IIRC.
Probably too late already to stage a new pandemic in time to disrupt the 2026 elections, and probably unnecessary since traditionally the ruling party loses seats anyway. But 18 months prior to the 2028 elections would be an even better opportunity to sow some chaos, since that would distract significantly from any positive accomplishments of the Trump administration, and creat much better conditions for the rampant voting frauds that were so effective in 2020. The Chinese have definitely learned quite a bit from that experience, so this time they will make sure that the outbreak occurs here in the U.S., and ideally close to a known biological research facility. After the progressives triumph there will inevitably be questions raised, but this racist hate speech will of course be righteously and ruthlessly suppressed.
The only country that apparently wants to kill us, or make us deadly ill, is China. Why do we let those people purchase food businesses, among many other businesses, in our country ? Why do we allow all the Chinese students in our country? I am perfectly comfortable with Koreans, Japanese, etc coming into the USA and buying businesses and living here, but at this point, I am leery of Chinese.
I received a copy of the initial report of what that idiot was growing in the “bio lab” (if someone really wants to call that cesspit of a dangerous pathogenic nightmare one!), and it looks like a laundry list of basic biowarfare agents from the 50s: bacterial species that cause tularemia, tuberculosis, black plague, pneumonic plague (same bacteria as black plague but slightly genetically different), and some other very nasty species; toxins including shigella and salmonella (think for serious diarrhea and dysentery), tetanus (lockjaw), diphtheria (nasty!), and pertussis (whooping cough); and botulinum culture (botulism)—the deadliest toxin known on the planet on a weight-for-weight basis. Overall, I doubt this is the only one that the Chinese Satan was operating.
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