June 10, 2008 Woman attempts to smuggle arms to China

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Chinese citizen has pleaded guilty in San
Diego to trying to smuggle military-grade sensors to her homeland.

Qing Li pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to
conspiring to harm the U.S.

Prosecutors say she approached a company in Orange County in
2007 about buying accelerometers. The devices can measure the power
of missile systems but are illegal to export without State
Department approval.

Li told undercover investigators she was buying the devices on
behalf of a scientific agency in China.

She was living in Connecticut and was arrested in October at
Kennedy Airport in New York.

She faces five years in prison when she is sentenced in
September. Her attorney did not return a message left by The
Associated Press.

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