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Manuscript Thief Gets Year in Prison | San Diego News
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A cunning con artist named Jeffrey Ying, operating under aliases like Alan Fujimori, Jason Wang, and Austin Chen, just got sentenced to a year in federal prison for stealing rare Chinese manuscripts from UCLA’s library. Over months between late 2024 and early 2025, he swapped real historical treasures—like a 17th-century Qing dynasty text—for fakes he crafted in his hotel room, using fake IDs and library cards to pull off the heist. Authorities uncovered his operation through suspicious checkouts, travel to China, and damning evidence of forgery materials. Now he’s paying the price for messing with priceless artifacts.
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