Gerald Eddie Brown Jr.

Former U.S.

Air Force officer and pilot Gerald Eddie Brown Jr.

is charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization, a violation of the Arms Export Control Act.

The Department of Justice revealing the 65-year-old who left active duty in 1996 with the rank of major was arrested in Indiana.

The complaint alleges around August of 2023, Brown willfully conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force traveling to China to do so in December of 2023, returning to the U.S.

earlier this month.

Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.