Mwamuna yemwe akuimbidwa mlandu woba chala chachikulu pachifanizo cha terra cotta chazaka 2,000 paphwando la tchuthi ku Franklin Museum ku Philadelphia wavomera pempho lomwe lingamupulumutse ku ukaidi wazaka 30, malinga ndiPhilly Voice.

Mu 2017, Michael Rohana, mlendo paphwando la tchuthi la "sweti loyipa" lomwe linachitikira kunyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale, adalowa pachiwonetsero cha ankhondo aku China terra cotta omwe adapezeka pamanda a Qin Shi Huang, mfumu yoyamba ya China. . Zithunzi zowonera zikuwonetsa kuti, atatenga selfie ndi chiboliboli cha wokwera pamahatchi, Rohana adathyola china chake pa chimodzi mwa zibolibolizo.

Kufufuza kwa FBI kunali kukuchitika patangopita nthawi yochepa ogwira ntchito kumalo osungirako zinthu zakale atazindikira kuti chala chachikulu cha chibolibolicho chinalibe. Posakhalitsa, ofufuza a boma anafunsa Rohana mafunso kunyumba kwake, ndipo iye anapereka chala chachikulu chimene “anachibisa m’dirowa” kwa akuluakulu a boma.

Milandu yoyambirira yomwe Rohana anaiimba Rohana—kuba ndi kubisa chinthu cha chikhalidwe chochokera kumalo osungiramo zinthu zakale—anathetsedwa monga mbali ya pangano lake. Rohana, yemwe amakhala ku Delaware, akuyembekezeka kuvomera mlandu wozembetsa anthu, zomwe zimabwera ndi chigamulo cha zaka ziwiri komanso chindapusa cha $ 20,000.

Pamlandu wake, mu Epulo 2019, Rohana adavomereza kuti kuba chala chachikulu chinali choledzera chomwe loya wake adachitcha "kuwononga kwachinyamata," malinga ndiBBC.Oweruza, osatha kuvomerezana pamilandu yoopsa yomwe amamutsutsa, adatsekedwa, zomwe zinapangitsa kuti asamatsutsidwe.

Malinga ndiBBC,akuluakulu aboma ku China "adadzudzula mwamphamvu" nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale chifukwa "yosasamala" ndi ziboliboli za terra cotta ndipo adapempha kuti Rohana "alangidwe koopsa." Bungwe la Philadelphia City Council linatumiza anthu aku China kupepesa chifukwa cha kuwonongeka kwa fanolo, lomwe linali ngongole kwa Franklin kuchokera ku Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center.

Rohana akuyenera kuweruzidwa kukhothi la federal ku Philidelphia pa Epulo 17.