All credit to my colleague at Redstate, Jennifer Van Laar, who picked up this story and ran with it.
Additional, and indeed primary credit, goes to Las Vegas journalist David Charms, who has been diligently following this story, which is more than could be said about federal authorities during the Biden administration, who dropped the ball, watched it roll under the couch, and shrugged, even after they had discovered the illegal Chinese biolab linked to this one in Fresno County, CA.
I’m calling for urgent consideration of my bill with Rep. Costa to detect and shut down illegal bio labs. We’ve just learned of a second such lab run by CCP-linked Chinese nationals in Vegas. Their first, in Reedley, CA, contained HIV, E. coli, Malaria, and other pathogens. pic.twitter.com/WDJCrcEP9C
— Rep. Kevin Kiley (@RepKiley) February 4, 2026
It’s almost as if the feds under Biden had no problem with Chinese biolabs, which they funded in China, and basically ignored here in America.
The Airbnb attached to the CCP disease lab isn’t incidental, it’s the point.
How do you cripple an Air Force base & catalyze a nationwide outbreak in one stroke?
You seed diseases into Vegas tourists around Nellis AFB.
Hybrid war with CCP characteristics. https://t.co/plgqWW4b55 pic.twitter.com/oCxBnfBK6W
— Michael Lucci (@Michael7ucci) February 4, 2026
In many ways, this biolab is even more troubling because the Airbnb attached to it appears to have been used to spread deadly diseases, either intentionally or not.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Several people became sick from an illegal bio lab running out of a Las Vegas home that also served as an Airbnb, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained Tuesday.
Metro police and the FBI searched the Sunrise Manor home on Saturday, Jan. 31, finding a “possible biological laboratory,” including “refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids,” police said.
Ori Solomon, 55, faces a felony charge of disposing or discharging hazardous waste, according to state court records, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. Late Monday, federal prosecutors filed paperwork to charge Solomon on a gun charge.
An LLC tied to the home’s county records matches the name of a company that is part of an ongoing federal case in California involving a biological laboratory there, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported Sunday. In that case, a Chinese citizen with potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party, David He, faces federal charges for allegedly manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices at a warehouse in Reedley, California, according to federal prosecutors.
The Fresno lab was discovered in late 2023, although federal authorities had been warned about it long before they finally raided it after a Congressional inquiry into the matter.
Link to Charns’ piece: https://t.co/JwNJbNSt5X
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) February 3, 2026
BUCKLE UP! New info in Las Vegas biolab case. According to docs reviewed by @8NewsNow @davidcharns
⚫️”Several” people were sickened, w/2 becoming “deathly ill” after being at the home.
⚫️ The home was being used as an Airbnb (pics attached)
⚫️ Tipsters said garage smelled “like a hospital – not like a clean hospital but more of a foul, stale, stagnant air smell.”
⚫️ House contained “many dead crickets”
⚫️ House cleaner told authorities about lab equipment, refrigerators in garage
⚫️ David He/Jia Bei Zhu, the CCP-linked homeowner, contacted prop mgr Ori Solomon 467 times since his arrest in Oct 2023, directing him to send $ from property rental
⚫️ He/Zhu has contacted his wife/accomplice, Zhaoyan Wang, who’s in China, 3,524 times from jail
⚫️ Authorities believe Wang has access to cameras monitoring the Vegas property
Of course, this brings up even more questions. With all of that contact from jail, how did this go on so long?
More to come at
@RedState
The home/biolab (which was hidden in the garage) had been reported to authorities, and was connected to a case against an immigrant who managed the residence (he was facing gun charges).
New video shows chilling footage inside illegal Chinese-run bio lab in Las Vegas, revealing fridge labeled “Ebola” and hazardous pathogen storage.
Remember, Millions of illegals were let into the US under Joe Biden. Can you imagine if Kamala Harris won?
H/T @BreannaMorello… https://t.co/RxjRWcM616 pic.twitter.com/RUIR7w6Duf
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) February 3, 2026
Authorities linked it to the Fresno County lab through the original owner (who has several other properties that have yet to be searched).
New arrest and raid in connection to the CCP linked California Biolab in Las Vegas Nevada. The CDC appears to have operated in favor of a coverup in California to protect the CCP from the illegal bioweapons research labs true extent. @RepMoolenaar will your committee investigate… https://t.co/HmD4PwtDBI pic.twitter.com/cUkb1HVbG1
— Jason I (@ickesCyberGB) February 2, 2026
In early January the FBI was contacted by a tipster who’d been contracted to clean the Las Vegas home and reported that there was lab equipment and medical waste in the garage. The FBI believed that equipment to be consistent with lab equipment reported to have been in the Reedley facility, and the FBI and the Southern Nevada Health District made the connection between that address and its owner and the Reedley biolab.
Then, public health authorities in Nevada were alerted in January by several tipsters who described conditions at the biolab home and reported becoming ill.
Another person inside the home reported the garage was always locked, documents said. A person also reported to investigators that the garage contained three refrigerators and that the room smelled “like a hospital – not like a clean hospital but more of a foul, stale, stagnant air smell.”
Several days after entering the garage, two people became “deathly ill,” and they “could not get out of bed,” documents said. A tipster also told police the house contained “many dead crickets” and several people had gotten sick.
The tale is long and twisted, and I highly recommend reading Jennifer’s piece as well as Charms’ original reporting. The picture painted is very scary indeed, and, along with the cases of Chinese nationals who have been caught smuggling in potential biological weapons, should serve as a wake-up call to the federal government.
Better Late Than Never? How Many Secret Chinese Bio Labs Are There In This Country?
—Sam Faddis is a former CIA operations officer
Back in 2023, the FBI essentially stumbled onto an illegal and secret biolab in California run by a Chinese national. That lab was jammed with all… pic.twitter.com/LN0Yv4T1oR
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) February 3, 2026
—Sam Faddis is a former CIA operations officer
Back in 2023, the FBI essentially stumbled onto an illegal and secret biolab in California run by a Chinese national. That lab was jammed with all sorts of dangerous organisms, including COVID-19, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, chlamydia, E. coli, and herpes, and just happened to be in proximity to one of our key military airbases. At the time, we at AND Magazine asked repeatedly if anyone had any intention of investigating the possibility of there being other such secret biolabs scattered around the country.
Apparently, nobody cared. After all, the Chinese Communist Party had, in one or another way, funneled massive amounts of cash to the Bidens, so investigating illicit Chinese activities on our soil probably was not a politically wise move at the FBI.
Biden is gone. Trump is in office. Local police in Las Vegas just stumbled onto another illicit bio lab connected to the same Chinese citizen, Jia Bei Zhu, behind the first lab. The FBI is involved, and suddenly they seem seized with the issue. Press reports indicate they are investigating 20 other locations connected to the same person.
Inside a home in Las Vegas, the FBI found a plethora of glass vials. The vials contained blood, tissue, bodily fluid samples, and other unlabeled fluids. There were also containers labeled with names like “dengue fever,” “HIV,” and “malaria.” The LLC that owns the property is the same one connected to the California case. Samples from the Las Vegas home have been shipped to the FBI’s specialized laboratories to determine the exact nature of the unknown liquids and pathogens discovered.
On February 1, 2026, authorities arrested Ori Solomon, 55, who was identified as the property manager for the Las Vegas residence. Solomon has been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a felony charge of improperly disposing of hazardous waste.
The mind boggles. Three years after we discovered a secret Chinese bio lab on our soil, we must now accept that we have no idea how many other such facilities are inside the country. This is particularly hard to comprehend given that after the first lab was discovered in 2023, Congress conducted a lengthy investigation and issued some extremely hard-hitting findings.
➡ The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
➡ This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
➡ The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
➡ The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
➡ The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high-risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
➡ The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
➡ After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.
The mice in question are specially bred. They are expensive. They are genetically modified to simulate human immune systems. Workers helping local law enforcement in processing the material found at the first lab became sick after tending to the infected mice. The lab was located across from a residential area near a high school and a water supply, the report notes.
There is a reason why biological weapons are referred to as the “poor man’s nuclear weapon”. They are cheap. They are relatively easy to manufacture in a small space. A lab in a suburban home could grow enough of a pathogen for a nationwide attack.
Everyone in America remembers COVID. With all respect to those who died, in the scheme of things, that was nothing. There are any number of biological agents that, if properly deployed, would kill 60-70-% of those infected. You could buy the equipment you would need to grow these monsters from any online lab equipment site.
Likewise, the Chinese interest in biological weapons is well known. There is no question that they are working on them and that in the right situation, they would use them.
What should have happened then in 2023 is that we turned the country upside down, looking for anyone and anything remotely connected in any way to the first lab we found. Apparently, what did happen was nothing. We wrote it off, went back to sleep, and pretended we were safe.
That kind of complacency gets you dead. This might be a really good time to find out just how many other secret Chinese bio labs there are in this country.
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https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/better-late-than-never-how-many-secret
I may have too limited an imagination, but I cannot think of an innocent explanation for the pattern we are seeing here. Biolabs filled with dangerous pathogens, Airbnbs next to military bases, Chinese nationals smuggling biological agents into the country…that sure looks like a pattern, and a really big threat to the security of the nation.
One presumes that after all the missteps in this investigation, federal officials are finally paying attention.
One can hope, at least.
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