- Raids & Arrests
- Nov 5, 2026
California Woman ARRESTED After FBI Says She Spied On Taiwan President’s Son For China
On the evening of September 1, 2025, a black Nissan Rogue stopped near a house in a Seattle suburb. According to a federal complaint, a neighbor’s security camera shows the two people inside appearing to film a man and his family as they arrived home. Law enforcement sources say the man is the son of Taiwan’s president. Thirteen months later, FBI agents arrested Wanying “Heather” Zhang, a 34-year-old realtor from Irvine, California, at Los Angeles International Airport as she prepared to board a flight to Shanghai.
The other person in that car has never been named. What prosecutors said about that person came out in court.
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Presumption of innocence
The arrest at LAX and what the U.S. Attorney’s Office said about it The June 2025 meeting in a private room in China described in the complaint The messages the FBI says she sent from that street, and two license plates Why this family matters to Beijing and Taipei Her public life in Orange County, and the questions prosecutors raised about her money The October 7 detention hearing and the judge’s ruling What the FBI agent wrote these photos could be used for What happened to the person who sat next to her in that car Zhang has been charged by criminal complaint with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. She has not been indicted or convicted, and is presumed innocent. Her lawyer says the government’s only spying allegation centers on a single day.
Sources
Criminal complaint, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (October 2026) · U.S. Attorney’s Office, C.D. Cal. · CBS News · NBC Los Angeles · Al Jazeera · NTD News · FOX 11 Los Angeles · KTVU FOX 2.
