Illegal Chinese Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Marijuana Trafficking Conspiracy Charge

The defendant was indicted last year alongside three other Chinese nationals and two U.S. citizens.

The Department of Justice in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

An illegal Chinese immigrant has pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking conspiracy charge involving marijuana in New Orleans.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced on May 15 that Zeng Zihang, 24, had pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, a mixture and substance containing one hundred (100) kilograms or more of a detectable amount of marijuana.”