Chinese Woman Arrested for Unauthorized Entry at Mar-a-Lago
- Secret Service says she had a thumb drive containing malware
- She was taken into custody after clearing checkpoint at resort
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A woman carrying two Chinese passports illegally entered President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Saturday and lied to a Secret Service agent, according to U.S. authorities.
The suspect, Yujing Zhang, also had four mobile phones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive found to contain malware, a Secret Service agent said in an affidavit filed in support of the charges against her. The passports were from China, not “Republic of China” -- the formal name of Taiwan -- as was written in the affidavit, said Marlene Fernandez-Karavetsos, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.