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Chinese Human Smuggler Arrested after Serving Sentence in US
A Chinese citizen was recently arrested and charged with human smuggling after serving a 30-month jail sentence in the United States on the same charge.
Lin Xuecheng, a resident of east China's coastal city of Lianyungang, has been charged with "shipping people across the border illegally" by the Lianyungang City Procuratorate.
According to the charge, at the end of 1998, organized by Xue Yuhua, a citizen in east China's Fujian Province, Lin and his younger brother transported over 60 stowaways to the Western Pacific island of Guam, of the United States, from the sea off Putian City in Fujian Province, using an ocean-going steel fishing boat.
The boat and the stowaways were seized by American police on the sea near Guam, and Lin and his brother were later sentenced by a local American court to 30 months and 48 months in jail, respectively.
Upon his arrival in China in mid-June after serving his jail sentence, Lin was arrested by Chinese border police and confessed to everything he did in the human smuggling case.
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