UF bans student named in Chinese smuggling probe from campus for 3 years

UF bans student named in Chinese smuggling probe from campus for 3 years

Prosecutors say Nongnong “Leticia” Zheng, a senior, was involved in a scheme led by a Gibsonton man. She has not been criminally charged.

UF bans student from campus for 3 years over illegal plot to ship drugs, toxins to China

GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida on Saturday banned a student from its property for three years who the Justice Department accused of being involved in a multimillion-dollar scheme to divert biomedical samples of dangerous drugs and toxins from a campus laboratory to China. Nongnong “Leticia” Zheng, 21, a senior marketing major in the business school and president of UF’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association, has not been formally ch…