Correction: A previous version incorrectly stated the student pleaded guilty to charges. The story has been corrected. We regret the error.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — One of the Chinese scientists accused of trying to smuggle “concealed biological material” to the University of Michigan has pleaded no contest to multiple criminal charges.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Michigan announced late Tuesday that Chengxuan Han has pleaded no contest to three counts of smuggling and one count of providing false statements to U.S. Custom and Border Protection Officers.
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Han was arrested in June at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after arriving on a flight from China. She is working toward a Ph.D from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and was set to spend a year completing a project involving round worms at a University of Michigan lab…