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U.S. NEWS Thursday 13 February 2020

Jury finds Mar-a-Lago intruder not guilty of trespassing

Associated Press that Lu purposely intrud- she paid $200 for a Chi- approached her, adding
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ed in a "calculated" and nese guide to drop her off that she didn't know why
— A Florida jury acquitted a "planned" manner. She has at various South Florida lo- she was being handcuffed.
Chinese woman Wednes- been in custody since her cations. She said her lan- Palm Beach County Judge
day of trespassing at Presi- arrest because her visa to guage barrier prevented Mark Eissey set Lu's sentenc-
dent Donald Trump's Mar- remain in the United States her from understanding a ing for Friday. She faces up
a-Lago resort after she tes- has expired. security officer's orders to to one year in jail on the
tified she didn't understand Prosecutors said she ig- leave the property. Lu's misdemeanor charge.
a security guard who told nored a warning to leave tour guide then took her Mar-a-Lago has had a rash
her to leave. the grounds and returned to Palm Beach's Worth of security breaches, with
However, jurors did find through a side entrance Avenue shopping district, at least three trespassing
Jing Lu, 56, guilty of resist- and continued taking pic- where she was stopped by events over the past 14
ing a police officer without tures. Mar-a-Lago is now two Palm Beach police offi- months, two of them involv-
violence during her Dec. 18 Trump's official residence, cers. They testified that she ing Chinese nationals.
arrest. The incident marked This Wednesday, Dec. 18, moving there from New wouldn't consent to being Last March, Yujing Zhang, a
the second time in 2019 2019, file booking photo York City last year, but he questioned and resisted 33-year-old Shanghai busi-
that a Chinese national provided by the Palm Beach was not in Florida when Lu when they tried to hand- nesswoman, gained ac-
was charged with illicitly County Sheriff's Office, in Fla., was arrested. cuff her. cess to Mar-a-Lago by tell-
entering Trump's Florida re- shows Jing Lu. Lu, testifying through a Lu testified that she was ing Secret Service agents
sort. Prosecutors told jurors Associated Press Mandarin interpreter, said scared when the officers she was there to swim.q