{"id":19378,"date":"2026-02-26T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-air-force-pilot-who-provided-defense-services-to-chinese-militaryarrested-doj\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:22:24","slug":"former-air-force-pilot-who-provided-defense-services-to-chinese-militaryarrested-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-air-force-pilot-who-provided-defense-services-to-chinese-militaryarrested-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Air Force pilot who provided &#8216;defense services&#8217; to Chinese militaryarrested: DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday that a former Air Force pilot was arrested because he provided &ldquo;defense services&rdquo; to Chinese military forces. In a press release Wednesday, the DOJ said 65-year-old Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. had been arrested in Jeffersonville, Ind., that day. The department said Brown&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5755831-former-air-force-pilot-arrested\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday that a former Air Force pilot was arrested because he provided &ldquo;defense services&rdquo; to Chinese military forces. In a press release Wednesday, the DOJ said 65-year-old Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. had been arrested in Jeffersonville, Ind., that day. The department said Brown&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}