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Former Lehigh University student accused of poisoning ordered held without bail
Riley Yates
A former Lehigh University student accused of trying to poison his roommate was ordered jailed without bail on Friday after authorities alleged he sought to flee to his native China by orchestrating his own deportation.
Yukai Yang must be held in Northampton County Jail until his criminal charges are resolved, given the prospect that he will be deported if he is released from local custody, Judge Stephen Baratta ordered after a hearing at the courthouse in Easton.
Yang, a 23-year-old chemistry major, was charged last month with the attempted murder of his longtime roommate, Juwan Royal, for allegedly slipping rat poison repeatedly into his food and drink.
Last week, prosecutors accused Yang of seeking his own deportation, saying they foiled an attempt by him over Christmas to leave the country by making bail and cooperating with immigration agents. Prosecutors did so in a legal filing in which they referenced “possible further instances of criminal conduct similar to those alleged,” with District Attorney John Morganelli saying his office was probing whether Yang tried to poison a second Lehigh student.
On Friday, Morganelli offered additional details of that investigation after the assistant district attorney assigned to the case, Abraham Kassis, retreated from the accusation, saying, “As of this time, there does not appear that there is any indication that another poisoning occurred.”
Morganelli stood by his characterization, saying a student who once roomed with Yang noticed discolored beverages in their shared refrigerator. Morganelli said while that student didn’t report being sickened, investigators want to interview others who lived with them. The student also reported defaced property, Morganelli said, another component of the charges Yang faces.
“You didn’t misquote me,” Morganelli said. “I stand by that then and now.”
Yang’s defense attorney, Janet Jackson, criticized prosecutors’ public handling of the case in a brief statement after his bail hearing ended.
“My client intends to fight these charges, completely intends to fight these charges,” Jackson said. “And I’m not as interested in trying this case in the press as the commonwealth seems to be.”
In court, Yang’s defense team disputed that he is a flight risk and said he is entitled to bail, even if he is under an immigration detainer that could see him removed from the United States.
Yang was being held under $200,000 bail, a figure set at his arraignment by District Judge Nancy Matos Gonzalez. But a day after that hearing, Yang’s family posted the money in cash and money orders, leading to agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s taking Yang into custody with an eye to deporting him.
Prosecutors said Yang intended to waive challenges to his removal, allowing him to immediately be sent to China. That had prosecutors seeking to have Yang held without bail.
In granting that request, Baratta said there was no other way to ensure Yang isn’t deported.
If Yang makes bail, Baratta said, “it’s a done deal. He’s out of here if I don’t do anything.”
Authorities accuse Yang of slowly poisoning Royal with thallium, an odorless and colorless chemical that is highly toxic. Royal was so sickened that on two occasions in March, Lehigh University police were called to his aid, and he continues to have health problems, authorities said.
The charges came after a monthslong investigation and represented the second involving Yang, who was already accused of scrawling racist graffiti directed at Royal, who is black.
In April, Yang was charged with ethnic intimidation after police said he wrote the N-word and “GET OUT OF HERE” in marker on Royal’s desk in their room at Warren Square, and also trashed Royal’s television and bed.
Authorities say Yang’s motives are unclear, as he and Royal lived together seemingly without incident for several years.
In an interview with investigators in May, Yang admitted he used the internet to buy thallium and other chemicals, and to mixing them into foods and drinks he stored in a refrigerator he shared with Royal, authorities said. But Yang claimed he intended to use the poisons to harm himself “if he did poorly on future exams,” according to authorities.
On Friday, one of Yang’s lawyers, Fortunato Perri Jr., said his client was aware of the attempted murder investigation long before he was charged, and never tried to flee the country. Perri noted that Yang’s mother and uncle were in the courtroom on his behalf.
Perri told Baratta that Yang has spent the last several months being treated for “disorders.” But Perri declined to comment on those disorders after the hearing.

 

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Always the chinaman. No exceptions!

 

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There was a more famous case of another Chinese student poisoning



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium_poisoning_case_of_Zhu_Ling

Thallium poisoning case of Zhu Ling
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thallium Poisoning of Zhu Ling Location Tsinghua University, BeijingDate ? – April 1995Victim Zhu Ling
Zhu Ling (Chinese: 朱令; pinyin: Zhū Lìng, born 1973) photo is best known as the victim of an unsolved 1995 thallium poisoning case in Beijing, China. Her symptoms were posted to the Internet via a Usenet newsgroup by her friend from Peking University, Bei Zhicheng and were subsequently proven to be caused by thallium poisoning. Her case was then reviewed by physicians in many different countries who examined her symptoms and made suggestions as to diagnoses and treatment. This effort was recognized as the first large scale tele-medicine trial.[1] Her life was ultimately saved, but she suffered serious neurological damage and permanent physical impairment.

This case drew great attention in the Chinese media, because the victim and the suspect were living in the same dormitory[citation needed] in the most prestigious university of China, and the case was never solved. Internet discussion of the crime has continued since then and became a hot topic on major online Chinese communities very frequently as a high-profile cold case.

In 1994, Zhu Ling was a sophomore in Class Wuhua2 (Class 2 majored in Physical Chemistry) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Classmates described her as attractive, intelligent, and talented, with an interest in music. She began to show strange and debilitating symptoms at the end of 1994, when she reported experiencing acute stomach pain, along with extensive hair loss. Following her hospitalization at TongRen Hospital, her condition gradually improved and she was allowed to return to school. The following March, however, her old symptoms returned worse than before, this time accompanied by pain in her legs, loss of muscular eye control, and partial facial paralysis. Unable to breathe on her own, she was placed on a respirator.

One physician at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Dr. Li Shun-wei, reported having diagnosed a similar poisoning case in the 1960s and strongly suspected that Zhu Ling's symptoms were caused by thallium poisoning. However, Zhu Ling denied that she had had any contact with thallium in class, a claim which was confirmed by her university's chemistry department. As a result, her doctors ruled out thallium poisoning as a potential cause. Instead, she was diagnosed with and treated for Guillain–Barré syndrome. Her condition deteriorated rapidly.

Frustrated with local physicians' inability to help Zhu Ling, her friends Cai Quanqing and Bei Zhicheng, undergraduate students in Peking University, posted an "SOS" letter on a number of Internet usenet groups on April 10, 1995, describing their friend's symptoms and asking for help with a diagnosis.[2][3] It was remarkable that by 1995 only a few research institutes in China had Internet connections, including Cai's advisor. Responses began pouring in within a matter of hours,[4] and news reports hailed the event as a milestone in remote diagnosis by Internet, especially in China. Of the more than 1,500 responses which Zhu Ling's friends received, roughly one-third proposed that she was suffering from thallium poisoning, the common antidote for which is known as Prussian blue.

Subsequent tests confirmed that Zhu Ling had extraordinarily high levels of thallium in her body, about 10,000 times more than normal people.[5] Doctors were able to administer the antidote, Prussian blue in time to save her life, but she sustained serious permanent neurological damage. While she has recovered the ability to breathe on her own, she still cannot speak and remains largely paralyzed and almost blind, with severely reduced mental function. In addition, she has contracted Hepatitis C from a tainted blood transfusion.

The police began investigating the case in May 1995. It was not until January 2006 that police finally revealed to the media that their initial investigations had yielded a possible suspect. No explanation was given for the delay in releasing this information, and no one has yet been formally charged in connection with the case. The primary investigator, Li Shusen, told a correspondent from Southern People Weekly in a January 2006 phone interview that investigators have in fact reached some important conclusions regarding the case, but that the information is too sensitive to be released to the public at this time.

The main suspect after police investigation is Sun Wei (孙维) (born August 20, 1973), who was Zhu Ling's classmate and roommate in Tsinghua University from 1992 to 1997. Tsinghua University also said Sun Wei was the only student who would have had official access to thallium compound among the students with close relationship to Zhu Ling, according to Zhu Ling's lawyer, Zhang Jie.[6] The authorities refused to release the results of their investigation to Zhu Ling's parents after they appealed.[7]

However, Tsinghua University denied to issue Sun Wei's B.S. certificate and refused to provide her document needed to get a passport or visa in 1997. It is believed Sun Wei has changed her name to Sun Shiyan (孙释颜).
The case began to draw extensive public attention near the end of 2005, after an ID named "skyoneline" posted on one of the largest Chinese online bulletin boards, Tianya Club, again questioning the innocence of the suspect and her family's role in blocking investigation and prosecution of the case.[8] In response, after over ten years of silence, on December 30, 2005, the main suspect Sun Wei released a statement proclaiming her innocence, which was confirmed by a weekly newspaper, Qingnian Zhoumo after interviewing Sun Wei's father in 2006.[9][10]

According to the statement, the suspect was identified as the only student with official access to thallium in her experiment for undergraduate research. She was detained by the police department on April 2, 1997, and signed a paper acknowledging she was a suspect. Sun Wei's family retrieved her from the police after eight hours of interrogation. In her statement, she also claimed that, according to the law, she was cleared as a suspect in August 1998. However, in a Morning News Post report dated March 2006, Zhu Ling’s lawyer, Zhang Jie said of the suspect, "She was only exempted from the compulsory measure that she was subjected to as a suspect at that time, but not excluded from suspicion."

Internet discussion of the crime continues since then and became hot topic on major online Chinese communities frequently as a high-profile unsolved case. A hacker who claimed he had hacked into the email account of one of Sun Wei's classmates, revealed communications purporting to be between Sun and several of her classmates, showing Sun Wei was guiding them how to post on forums to declare her innocence and they were preparing for Sun's statement in 2005.[11][12]

Among the Internet users in the discussion, many people speculate that the main suspect has not been charged due to her family connections. Sun Wei's grandfather is Sun Yueqi (孙越崎) who was an important member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as a senior leader of Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and her first cousin once removed, Sun Fuling was deputy mayor of Beijing from 1983 to 1993 and Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1998 to 2003.

An online White House Petition on the whitehouse.gov website was created on May 3, 2013, demanding investigation on the major suspect who was believed living in the US at the time. The number of the signatures reached 100,000 goal three days later after it was created. This online campaign also drew great attention from US and Chinese mainstream media, about Zhu Ling's family and the cold case.[13][14][15][16]
On July 28, 2015, the White House declined comment on the petition, saying "Zhu Ling's poisoning in 1995 was a tragedy. No young person deserves to suffer as she has, and we can understand the heartbreak of those close to her. We decline, however, to comment on the specific request in your petition. As the We the People Terms of Participation explain, to "avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government."

Widespread awareness by the Chinese public and cynicism regarding the matter and the alleged whitewashing of it pose public relations problems for the government of China. Information regarding the matter is too widespread to suppress, but, at the same time, evidence adequate to establish the guilt or innocence of the primary suspect is probably unavailable. Thus the matter serves as a vehicle for expression of public dissatisfaction with corruption and abuse of power by the political elite associated with the regime.[17]

 

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Ang Mohs poisoned the Native Americans en masse.

Tiongs merely integrate into American culture.