U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested the owner of a New Jersey sushi restaurant accused of spying for China.
Ming Xi Zhang, the 61-year-old owner of Ya Ya Noodles in Montgomery Township, New Jersey, was arrested on March 24th in Newark and placed in an ICE detention center.
Owner of NJ sushi joint nabbed by ICE after being convicted of spying for China https://t.co/Nza77I9Nso pic.twitter.com/OrVr0R9DZ3
— New York Post (@nypost) April 12, 2025
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From the New York Post:
Zhang was convicted in April 2024 of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government and sentenced to three years’ probation. In May 2021, he pleaded guilty to having served as an agent of China in 2016 without notifying the U.S. Attorney General.
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