Siblings allegedly connected to improvised explosive device at FL Air Force base fled to China

A pair of siblings face federal charges after an improvised explosive device was found at a Florida Air Force base that houses the military’s Central Command — which is running the war in Iran, prosecutors said Thursday.

Land O’Lakes resident Alen Zheng, 20, allegedly tried to set off the IED at the visitor’s center at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa earlier this month and his sister Ann Mary Zheng, 27, helped her sibling evade law enforcement, according to indictments against the pair.

The brother and older sister, both US citizens, sold the car Zheng used to bring the IED to the base and fled the country to China days later, said Kehoe.

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