Visitors to Las Vegas Home of Secret, China-linked ‘Biolab’ Report Mysterious, Debilitating Illnesses

Visitors to Las Vegas Home of Secret, China-linked ‘Biolab’ Report Mysterious, Debilitating Illnesses

As I noted earlier this week, authorities in Las Vegas are investigating a disturbing discovery inside a residential property that allegedly housed an illicit biological laboratory connected to an Chinese immigrant currently under arrest for running a similar facility in California.

The case, now under FBI scrutiny, has raised public health concerns as details emerge about what investigators found inside the home.

According to newly released court documents, several people who had spent time inside the Las Vegas residence later fell ill. A former cleaning employee for the property reported the illnesses to police, adding to growing questions about what kinds of materials or experiments were taking place there.

The former cleaning employee, who went by the pseudonym “Kelly,” tipped off authorities to the alleged operation early last month, according to an arrest report for the residence’s property manager filed with the Las Vegas Justice Court following a weekend raid at the home.

Kelly said she had been hired by the property manager, Ori Solomon, to clean the home, which was rented out by the room via websites, including Airbnb, according to the report.

Solomon, also known as Ori Salomon, was arrested over the weekend and faces both state and federal charges, including felony disposal/discharge of hazardous waste in an unauthorized manner and allegedly violating his visa by possessing firearms.

Kelly told police that while working at the house in April 2025, she entered the garage, which was usually locked, and found an assortment of “refrigerators/freezers, glass beakers with reddish liquid inside,” a biological safety cabinet and what she believed to be a centrifuge, according to Solomon’s arrest report.

The witness indicated she and several other people became extremely ill after entering the garage or house.

Kelly said she and Solomon’s handyman both got “‘deathly ill’ after going into the garage,” the report said. “Approximately five days after entering the garage, she was left with breathing issues, fatigue, ‘could not get out of bed,’ and muscle aches.”

The handyman had the “same symptoms,” and he “believed entering the garage was the reason that they both were sick,” the report said. Kelly said Solomon’s own wife also got sick after going into the garage, according to the report.

“Kelly said a lot of people who have lived inside the house have gotten sick. One female ended up in the hospital with severe respiratory issues,” the report said. “Kelly also noted when she was cleaning the house there would be many dead crickets found in the master bedroom,” which was “super uncommon as she had lived in Las Vegas for numerous years and never seen anything like that before.”

As an added concern, Nellis Air Force Base is located 7-8 miles away from where this Chinese Communist Party–linked bioscientist was allegedly operating a covert lab, underscoring a serious and unacceptable security vulnerability at one of America’s key military installations.

Investigators have tied the Las Vegas residence on Sugar Springs Drive to Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu, a PRC citizen and alleged CCP-connected operator behind the earlier Reedley, California, biolab, which handled vials labeled with pathogens such as HIV, dengue, malaria, and Ebola.

Locating a secret, Chinese-linked biological research site within a short drive of a major Air Force base raises urgent questions about what kind of materials, data collection, or intelligence activities might have been possible under the cover of a residential neighborhood. For lawmakers and national security officials, the proximity to Nellis AFB is not a coincidence to be shrugged off but a warning sign that biosecurity and counterintelligence gaps are being probed and exploited.

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