Alleged gold bar courier arrested in Portland scheme targeted others in Idaho and on East Coast, feds say - oregonlive.com

These are the five one-kilogram gold bars and three smaller 100-gram gold bars that an 86-year-old Portland woman had bought and prepared to hand over to a courier who showed up at her house, before the FBI interceded and made an arrest, according to a federal prosecutor.U.S. Attorney's Office

Biao Lin, charged in federal court with picking up more than $3 million in gold bars from an unsuspecting elderly couple in Portland, is now suspected of grabbing more than $8 million in gold bars from at least two other people on the East Coast and in Idaho, a prosecutor said this week.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin revealed the new allegations as he urged a federal judge to order Lin held in custody pending trial.

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