中國留學生在美代購毒藥 被判16年監禁

A former New York University student from China was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being convicted of trying to buy the deadly toxin ricin on a secretive website to sell it in the form of "simple and easy death pills".

因試圖通過網絡黑市購買可致命的蓖麻毒素、作爲"簡易安樂死藥丸"出售，一名曾在紐約大學就讀的中國留學生日前被判16年監禁。

Le Cheng, 22, was sentenced on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court following his conviction in August on charges he tried to acquire ricin as a weapon, postal fraud and identity theft. Ricin is a fatal toxin with no known antidote.

樂成，現年22歲。曼哈頓聯邦法院於週二進行宣判。此次判決是基於去年8月陪審團認定其三項指控罪名成立，包括企圖購買蓖麻毒素作爲武器、郵件欺詐以及盜用他人身份。蓖麻毒素是一種致命毒藥，迄今沒有任何解藥可以解毒。

Judge Alison Nathan said the "horrible, serious and quite terrifying offense" required a severe sentence, but added that no one had been harmed by the plot because Le's communications were intercepted online.

法官艾利森·內森表示，該事件“情節嚴重，駭人聽聞”，應予以重判。他還補充說道，由於樂成的通訊信息在網上被截獲，所以該事件並未致人員傷害。

Among evidence introduced at his trial were statements Le made in writing about getting ricin froman FBI covert employee, including: "If you can make them into simple and easy death pills, they'd become bestsellers."

在法庭審判時的相關證據顯示，樂成在同FBI的臥底聊天時寫道，“如果你能把蓖麻毒素做成速效死亡藥片，肯定會大賣。”

During a statement in court, Le said he planned to appeal, but he regretted having done such a thing.

樂成在法庭陳述中表示，他將上訴，但也表示後悔自己的所作所爲。

"Not a day goes by where I don't think of all the things I could have done," Le said.

他說：“沒有一天不在思考我原本可以去做的事情”。