2 Men Arrested at LAX with Infrared Cameras

There were 10 of them in their checked luggage. The two were intercepted by Federal agents as they were boarding a flight bound for Bejing.

The men had been in the United States for about a week, said Rick Weir, assistant special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office of the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security.

Yong Guo Zhi, a Chinese national, and Tah Wei Chao, a naturalized U.S. citizen, were arrested for investigation of trying to take thermal imaging cameras with potential military use to China without the proper export licenses, Weir said.

The article notes they have commercial uses as well. Which doesn't matter at all, they can't be legally exported in suitcases on a plane.

UPDATE: XBradTC notes the potential commercial use:

Those Panda mating training videos aren't gonna make themselves you know.

Posted by: XBradTC at April 05, 2008 03:43 PM (1DJgL)

I can see why you'd need to cover a few angles, yeah.

posted by Dave In Texas at 03:33 PM

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