Maine Wire: Liu, 39, is charged with theft and damage of government property in a case involving 46 altered computers at three Maine border facilities. Prosecutors are seeking to keep him jailed, citing frequent international travel, financial resources and a home close enough to Canada that an ankle monitor might not prevent him from leaving the country.
The alleged scheme persisted after a port director explicitly warned Liu not to move computers or their parts. Investigators later installed cameras that, according to an FBI affidavit, captured the supervisor opening government computers and swapping components during overnight shifts…