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Foreign National Fined $13K For Trying To Sell Spy Plane On EBay

Jillian Rayfield | November 9, 2011, 3:08PM

A judge ordered a Filipino foreign national to pay a $13k in fines and serve three years of supervised release for buying a military spy plane and trying to re-sell it over eBay.

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Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Henson Chua, Immigration, eBay

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

ICE Agent Pleads Guilty To Selling Thousands Of Dollars In Government Gear On EBay

Jillian Rayfield | October 7, 2011, 5:38AM

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in New Jersey pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars worth of government equipment, including printer cartridges, life-jackets, rappelling rope and a cold-water survival suit, and selling it over the internet.

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Topics: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), New Jersey, Steven Kucan, eBay

Wikileaks

Wikileaks Auctioning Off Assange's Prison Coffee, CBS Logo Coin To Raise Money

Jillian Rayfield | September 16, 2011, 1:26PM

The apparently cash-strapped Wikileaks is auctioning a number of would-be collectors items on eBay, including a packet of coffee smuggled out of prison by Julian Assange, tickets to a Vivenne Westwood fashion show, and signed photos and posters of Assange himself.

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Topics: Julian Assange, Wikileaks, eBay

Immigration

Man To Plead Guilty To Trying To Sell Military Spy Plane Over EBay

Jillian Rayfield | July 27, 2011, 3:18PM

Soldier holding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) RQ-11 Raven

A foreign national is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to buying a military spy plane and then trying to resell it on eBay.

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Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Henson Chua, Immigration, eBay

Immigration

Man Charged With Trying To Sell Military Spy Plane On EBay

Jillian Rayfield | March 29, 2011, 5:39PM

Soldier holding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) RQ-11 Raven

A foreign national was indicted yesterday for allegedly illegally importing an unmanned spy plane into the U.S., and then trying to resell it on eBay.

According to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement service, Henson Chua of the Philippines was indicted and charged by a grand jury in Tampa with violating the Arms Export Control Act and smuggling. Chua is accused of importing an RQ-11B "Raven" Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from the Philippines into the U.S., which is listed on the U.S. Munitions List as a defensive item, "without having first obtained from the U.S. Department of State a license or written authorization." He then "aided and abetted the attempted export" of the same UAV.

U.S. arms code prohibits people from buying and selling defense equipment without permission from the government, primarily to prevent people from selling U.S.-manufactured equipment to foreign governments. But Chua managed to reverse the process.

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Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, eBay

Scott Roeder

Anti-Abortion Activist Behind Auction For Roeder: For-Sale Items Do Not Glorify Violence

Justin Elliott | November 2, 2009, 1:46PM

Anti-abortion activist Regina Dinwiddie

Regina Dinwiddie, the Kansas anti-abortion activist who set up an eBay auction to benefit the suspect in the George Tiller murder, tells TPMmuckraker in a phone interview that she's angry that eBay pulled her items -- and that she believes they did not glorify violence, but rather "glorify the end of a very violent man."

"Actually I thought [eBay] was the last bastion of free enterprise in America, where normal people could put things up for sale," Dinwiddie told us. "I see they do have a political agenda."