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A 38-year-old man has been charged with committing a federal crime by stealing rare manuscripts from the library system of The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Jeffrey Ying, who also went by "Jason Wang," "Alan Fujimori," and "Austin Chen," allegedly conducted a scheme to steal $216,000 worth of historical Chinese documents, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a press release.

Ying, said to be of the San Francisco Bay Area, allegedly would take out the manuscripts on loan, bring them home for days at a time — then "return" the documents by replacing them with fakes.

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He would travel to and from China within several days of t

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