Chinese National Charged for Photographing US Military Planes on Road Trip From Vancouver

Members of the U.S. Air Combat Command Security Forces guard an E-4B plane. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images

A Chinese national has been accused of illegally photographing U.S. military aircraft in Nebraska during a road trip that authorities say started in Vancouver.

Twenty-one-year-old college student Tianrui Liang was arrested at a New York airport on April 7 while trying to leave the United States for Glasgow, Scotland, where he is studying, the FBI said in a recently published court filing.