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By Jo Nova

We need to talk about bioweapons…

A house cleaner known only as Kelly reported a suspicious garage in an AirBNB in Las Vegas to the FBI a few weeks ago. Apparently it was normally locked, but when it was left open she noticed a foul “hospital” smell. On Saturday investigators found fridges  and carted away “more than 1,000 pieces of evidence”. They arrested a man who managed the property and discovered the owner he worked for was in jail and used to own the Reedley illegal bioweapon lab as well. That was the lab found by sheer chance that had vials of samples marked “Ebola”, “HIV”, Covid-19″ and “Tuberculosis”. There were also a thousand lab mice in there and people wearing hazmat suits.

Righto, so having found a hostile, highly dangerous, existential potential threat in 2023, no one asked the question, “does he own anything else?” No one thought to look at his other properties?

Kelly, the AirBNB cleaner was probably extra suspicious because she and another employee reported that the garage made them sick:

Police source describes falling ‘deathly ill’ after entering Las Vegas garage where biolab was found

— By Darcy Spears, Alyssa Roberts, KTNV, Las Vegas.

She and another employee both reported becoming “deathly ill” in April 2025, about five days after going into the garage. Their symptoms included “breathing issues, fatigue, couldn’t get out of bed, and muscle aches.” Both believed they were sick because of the biolab in the garage. Kelly also told the FBI that Solomon’s wife got sick after entering the garage, and that “a lot of people in the house have gotten sick, including one female who ended up in the hospital with severe respiratory issues.”

The man who managed the house is known as Ori Solomon, who apparently manages another 37 AirBnBs. The house owner, meanwhile,  is a Chinese citizen called Jia Bei Zhu (aka “David He”) who was arrested after the Reedley lab was uncovered, and was jailed in California. Records show he phoned Solomon 467 times in the last year.  And again, no one thought that was worth following up? Apparently being jailed doesn’t slow down organised crime, or possibly our enemies.

Most ominously, in this case he wasn’t jailed for having vials of Ebola in his fridge, because, the CDC refused to analyze the samples. Zhu could not be charged with any type of bioterrorism crime if no one “found” any evidence of viral threats.

It’s not only baffling that this happened, but also that we didn’t hear about it.

This is according to Kevin Kiley, a congressman in California:

The Reedley lab was discovered in December of 2022, when a code inspector came upon a suspicious warehouse. Inside, she found many Chinese nationals “wearing white lab coats, glasses, masks, and latex gloves,” along with “thousands of vials of biological substances” and 1,000 mice. It was later learned these were “transgenic” mice “genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.” A further inspection found “blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums” along with thousands of vials of “suspected biological material.” Some of the vials were labeled with the names of infectious agents, while others were labeled in a “code” that was never deciphered.

At first, the CDC refused to investigate, and even hung-up on local officials who asked for help. After Rep. Costa got involved, the CDC did an inspection and found “at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria.” Yet the CDC did not bother to test any samples, even those with unknown contents, making it “impossible for the Select Committee to fully assess the potential risks that this specific facility posed to the community.” The Select Committee report calls this “baffling.” Later, local officials discovered a refrigerator in the lab labeled “Ebola.”

He also notes there did not appear to be any profit based reason for the lab, but there was funding from China:

While the supposed purpose of the lab was to sell test kits, in fact all the company did was buy counterfeit kits from China and re-sell them in the United States. Thus, there was a “lack of apparent legitimate (or even profit-motivated criminal) motive in the operation of the illegal facility.” Meanwhile, Jesse Zhu, its operator, was “receiving unexplained payments via wire transfer” from Chinese banks.

As it happens, the house in Las Vegas is right next to a large water reservoir, and only a few miles from the Nellis Air Force Base. A small outbreak at an inconvenient time might be quite handy for an adversary? Though Richard Ebright worries more that enemies might want to carry out a false flag operation against a US “select-agent” (bioweapon) lab.

It seems the FBI has discovered a new interest in the Reedley labs a few days ago and went back to get stuff they left behind the first time. We might hope they were finally getting around to investigating it, but perhaps they are just covering their own asses?

Yet again, we are reminded that no matter how corrupt we think our institutions are, it’s worse.

What’s more scary — that officials have found another possible biolab in Las Vegas (and there may be many more), or that it was obviously and easily connected to the Reedley bioweapon lab found in California, and no one bothered to investigate? I mean, which is worse — that we’re in a cold war with the potential of being in a hot one, or that our worst enemies may be on our own side, or already paid off by the enemy?

h/t Bally in Qld.

There are more details at RedState, and on X, but where are the rest of the media?