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A federal investigation is underway into a possible biological lab inside a Las Vegas home. FBI and other agents raided the residence on a Saturday morning, pulling out boxes of what police believe are hazardous biological agents and pathogens typically found in secure labs, with airlocks to prevent an outbreak. Investigators observed refrigerators, a freezer, and other lab equipment, along with bottles and jugs containing unknown liquid substances. The Las Vegas lab reportedly belongs to 62-year-old Zhu Baiju, a Chinese national who also goes by the alias David He, who is a fugitive and has been in jail for the last three years.
Zhu Baiju was arrested in 2023 for manufacturing unlicensed medical devices and lying about unapproved HIV and pregnancy test kits that he was selling. He also operated an illicit bio lab in an abandoned warehouse in Reedley, California, where investigators found thousands of vials of blood and tissue, a thousand genetically engineered mice designed to carry the COVID virus, and CDC tests showing that the vials contained HIV, COVID, hepatitis, herpes, and malaria. Police arrested Zhu, and he has remained in jail since.
Congressional investigators link Zhu’s lab activities to the Chinese Communist Party, a tie that allegedly suggests the same actors are behind the Las Vegas lab. What the investigators think Zhu and his network were doing with the substances in the house remains unknown at this time. House investigators say Zhu received financing from Mainland China to create dozens of companies in the United States and Canada, employed mostly Chinese nationals to steal American intellectual property and transfer it to China. Zhu Baiju’s trial is set to begin in April.