A California man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison after being convicted of stealing missile tracking technology trade secrets from his employer, prosecutors said.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California , 59-year-old Chenguang Gong of San Jose was sentenced to 46 months at a hearing on Monday.

Gong, who has both U.S. and Chinese citizenship, pled guilty on July 21 to one count of stealing trade secrets. He had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.

Prosecutors said Gong transferred more than 3,600 files from a Los Angeles-area based research and development company to his personal devices, during his brief tenure with the unidentified firm in 2023.

Many of the files had been labeled "PROPRIETORY", "

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