From KTLA: A Bay Area man was sentenced to a year of home confinement and three years of supervised release for stealing rare and historical Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA library. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday the sentence was handed down to Jeffrey Ying of Fremont after he pleaded guilty to one count of theft of major artwork, a felony, in October.
More specifically, the DOJ said Ying’s guilty plea relates to a theft that occurred in December 2024 in which he stole a 17th century Qing dynasty manuscript. Ying, 39, who used several aliases including “Jason Wang,” “Alan Fujimori” and “Austin Chen,” admitted during his guilty plea hearing that he stole the rare manuscripts from the UCLA library between December 2024 and July 2025. Since they are so valuable, they are not in regular circulation and thus must be reserved and checked out...
Ying would rent them – bringing them home for days at a time – and then returned a “dummy manuscript” to the library instead of the authentic one. According to the Justice Department, Ying would travel to and from China “within several days of the thefts.” ... According to the DOJ, restitution in the case will be determined at a later date. Previous reports indicate that the value of the stolen items exceeded $215,000. It was unclear whether any of the manuscripts have been recovered.
Full story at https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-gets-366-days-in-federal-prison-for-stealing-rare-chinese-manuscripts-from-ucla/.
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