I know that Nevada has a reputation as some kind of wild west or libertarian paradise (both of those probably because paying for… um… “favors”… is legal there), but a recent story from Nevada sounds more like something out of a Stephen King novel.
Scary stuff.
The story comes out of Las Vegas, home of gambling and the phrase “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
I won’t pretend that that last phrase is a good concept to live by, and certainly a scare coming out of Vegas got national headlines.
But there are a few details about the situation that you probably didn’t hear about. Jill McLaughlin writes,
The FBI and Las Vegas police raided a home on Sugar Springs Drive in northeast Las Vegas on Jan. 31 after finding evidence that it possibly contained an illegal setup connected to a similar biolab that was dismantled in California several years ago.
The Las Vegas home is owned by a Chinese national who was arrested in the California biolab case in 2023 on charges related to manufacturing illegal tests and substances.
More than 1,000 samples were taken from the Las Vegas home and sent for testing by the FBI.
And then there are the details that you probably haven’t heard about.
A man arrested by Las Vegas police during the raid of an allegedly illegal biolab in Las Vegas on Jan. 31 was charged after authorities discovered he was a foreign national in possession of several weapons.
Federal prosecutors on Feb. 2 charged Ori Salomon, 55, with a felony gun crime.
So, an alleged illegal biolab in a private home owned by a Chinese national with someone arrested in the raid on that home who is a foreign national in possession of firearms.
Yes, it’s possible that nothing bad was going on in this home and that all of this was a big mistake…
But it sure sounds suspicious on the surface.
You hate to think it, but just reading that gave me flashbacks to the movie Red Dawn.
I certainly hope that we aren’t dealing with a foreign country getting prepared for an invasion of the U.S., but it wouldn’t hurt to have your plans and defensive firearms training in place anyway in case something crazy happens, no matter how unlikely it is.
