Four Chinese nationals and two U.S. citizens have been indicted on charges of racketeering and distributing 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of marijuana, the Department of Justice said on June 25.
The DOJ stated that three of the individuals—Hanjie Wu, 25; Yilei Zhou, 35; and Zihang Zeng, 24—are Chinese nationals who had been illegally residing in the United States.
Federal authorities also charged Like Chen, a 34-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from China; Wei Bin Chen, a 34-year-old permanent resident from China; and Aaron Steele, 45, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
All six individuals were indicted on May 22 for “conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, a mixture and substance containing one hundred (100) kilograms or more of a detectable amount of marijuana,” the DOJ stated….