Crime

Photo: Instagram India-West News Desk LOS ANGELES, CA - Jasveen Sangha, the North Hollywood woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” was sentenced on April 8 to 15 years in federal prison for running a high-volume drug trafficking operation that led to the overdose

India-West News Desk KENTWOOD, LA -A New Jersey man has been arrested in an interstate gold scam targeting elderly victims, following a coordinated investigation by law enforcement agencies in Louisiana and Texas. Nigam Bhatt, 25, of Parsippany, New Jersey, an Indian national

India-West News Desk BROOKLYN, NY - Bhavesh Lathiya, a 37-year-old Indian national and founder of Surat-based Raxuter Chemicals, has pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling and distributing fentanyl precursor chemicals to the United States. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern

Photo: seraphimhealth India-West News Desk LOS ANGELES, CA- Amelou Gill, 70, a registered nurse, and her husband Gladwin Gill, 66, a psychologist, were arrested April 2 on federal charges alleging a multi-million-dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving hospice care, authorities said. The couple was arrested

India-West News Desk ATLANTA, GA- Physician Jitesh Patel and his practice, Advanced Urology, Inc., along with affiliated entities, have agreed to pay $14 million to settle allegations of fraudulent billing and medically unnecessary procedures involving federal healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. The

WASHINGTON, DC -Senior US lawmakers have pressed the Commerce Department to release detailed data on exports of American-made semi-automatic weapons, citing concerns that such sales are fueling criminal violence abroad. In a letter to Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and

India-West News Desk OAKLAND, CA - Three Indian nationals, including the leadership of the cryptocurrency firm Contrarian, made their initial appearances in a federal court in Oakland on March 30, following their extradition from Singapore to face charges for an international market

India-West News Desk LOS ANGELES, CA - A Brampton man described as the mastermind behind a sophisticated international drug trafficking syndicate has pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles federal court, admitting to orchestrating the distribution of massive quantities of narcotics across

India-West News Desk FRESNO, CA -  A local business owner who exploited federal COVID-19 relief programs to purchase real estate has been sentenced to over a year in federal prison. On March 25, U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston sentenced Gurjeet

India-West News Desk VANCOUVER, WA - A Washington state liquor store owner is facing a sweeping expansion of criminal charges after more alleged victims came forward in a widening investigation into sexual exploitation of minors. Kulvir S. Brar, based here, was rearrested

WASHINGTON, DC -The US government has opposed an attempt by well-known policy expert Ashley J. Tellis to get serious charges against him dismissed, saying he wrongly kept highly sensitive national security documents at his home for years. Tellis is widely regarded

India-West News Desk ST. LOUIS, MO - Five individuals have been sentenced for their roles in a multi-state wire fraud scheme that defrauded elderly victims of an estimated $9.3 million, U.S. authorities said. U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp sentenced Sital Singh,

OTTAWA-The rising extortion threats faced by Punjabi builders in Canada's Vancouver are a clear warning that unchecked organized crime does not remain confined to a suburb or group but spreads across communities, erodes trust, stifles growth, and weakens the nation,

India-West News Desk MIAMI, FL - A federal grand jury has unsealed a 37-count indictment against Rishi Kapoor, the former CEO of Location Ventures, charging him with orchestrating an $85 million fraud scheme that funded a lavish lifestyle at the expense

Photos: Facebook/LinkedIn India-West News Desk PHILADELPHIA, PA - The Savani brothers of Pennsylvania, who ran a network of dental practices and business entities across multiple states,have been convicted in a sweeping racketeering conspiracy that prosecutors say involved immigration fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering,

India-West News Desk SANTA ROSA, CA -A Sonoma County jury has convicted a Santa Rosa man of second-degree murder in the 2022 stabbing death of his sister-in-law, concluding a trial that focused on whether the killing had been premeditated. After four days

Photo: NCDA India-West News Desk NEW YORK, NY - The March 6 sentencing of Ganesh Shenoy marks a historic conclusion to a two-decade pursuit of justice which happened after the first extradition of an individual from India to the United States since

OTTAWA- A social media account linked to extremist Khalistanis has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Canada-based online personality critical of their movement, whose house had earlier been hit with arson, according to media reports. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

NEW YORK, NY- Six individuals were detained on charges related to launching smoking projectiles filled with bolts and screws outside the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani during an anti-Muslim demonstration. Authorities said tensions escalated on March 7 during a demonstration organized

India-West News Desk LYNCHBURG, VA- Rajan Babbar, owner of the grocery store Taste of India here, has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to fraud involving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), authorities said. Babbar, 59, admitted to one count

OTTAWA - The murder of a prominent social media influencer, also a well-known Khalistani critic, has shocked Canada's Punjabi diaspora community even as investigators in LaSalle — a town in the Windsor-Essex region of Ontario — struggle to trace the

NEW YORK- The fallout from the distant Iran war has claimed the life of a student who was killed along with another student by a man wearing symbols linked to Iran who opened fire outside a popular venue. Officials on March

MIAMI, FL - A tragic vacation in El Portal has transformed into a high-stakes murder case as prosecutors release chilling 911 audio from an Oklahoma pediatrician now accused of killing her own child. Dr. Neha Gupta, 37, currently faces second-degree murder

India-West News Desk TRACY, CA - Authorities have confirmed that the body of Avtar Singh, a 57-year-old father of triplets who was kidnapped last week, was discovered over the weekend near Lake Berryessa in Napa County. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office

NEW DELHI -Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho”, Mexico’s most wanted and dangerous drug lord, was killed in a military operation. Following the killing, there was coordinated violence across several Mexican states, prompting advisories from India, the

India-West News Desk SAN JOSE, CA - A wider reckoning over religious hate at San Jose State University has begun, after a Sikh student was violently assaulted while being targeted as a “Hindu” in what authorities are investigating as a possible

WASHINGTON, DC -A federal grand jury in Virginia has returned a superseding indictment against prominent Indian American scholar and former US government adviser Ashley J. Tellis, charging him with 11 counts of willful retention of national defense information under the

NEW YORK, NY - Nikhil Gupta’s dramatic admission in a federal court here that he participated in a murder-for-hire plot brought an abrupt end to the trial against him, without testimony from witnesses or the trove of what prosecutors assert

NEW YORK, NY - Indian national Nikhil Gupta pleaded guilty on February 13 in federal court here, to all three counts in a superseding indictment charging him in a murder-for-hire conspiracy targeting a U.S.-based Sikh separatist leader, marking a dramatic turn in a

India-West News Desk SEATTLE, WA - The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $29 million to settle a wrongful death claim brought by the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, the 23 year old graduate student from India who was killed by

India-West News Desk ATLANTA, GA - “I went to get Tylenol and got the biggest headache of my life,” Mahendra Patel told a press conference on February 9, recalling the day last year, when he walked into an Acworth Walmart and

India-West News Desk NEW HAVEN, CT- Two men from Glastonbury have been charged in a large-scale fraud and identity theft scheme that used thousands of stolen identities to defraud FanDuel and other online gambling platforms of approximately $3 million. A federal grand jury in

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC-At least 89 Indian nationals have been identified in a “worst of the worst” criminal database released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which lists individuals arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs

India-West News Desk OAKLAND, CA- Physician Shomir Banerjee is among seven individuals arrested and charged in connection with an alleged hospice fraud scheme in Monterey County, California, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced. Banerjee, identified as a medical director, is one of three doctors charged

WASHINGTON, DC -US agents have shut down more than 200 illegal online pharmacy websites linked to an India-based criminal network blamed for deadly overdoses in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Administration said on February 4 that the websites were tied

India-West News Desk BALTIMORE, MD-A high-level joint operation between United States federal agencies and Indian law enforcement has led to the dismantling of a massive international scam network. On February 2, the FBI Baltimore Field Office and the Montgomery County Police Department

India-West News Desk CLIFTON, NJ - A 38-year-old man named Vishal Bhatt is facing multiple criminal and motor vehicle charges after leading East Rutherford officers on a high-speed chase and later calling the department to boast about his getaway. The incident began

Photo: Storey County Sheriff India-West News Desk RENO, NV- Law enforcement agencies have recovered more than $500,000 worth of stolen cargo and arrested three California men following an investigation into the theft of semi-truck trailers from the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, authorities said. The

India-West News Desk SACRAMENTO, CA- The founder of a Stockton-based motorcycle club pleaded guilty to federal charges related to illegal firearms trafficking and possession of a machine gun, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California announced. Jashanpreet Singh, 27,

Photo: Tilak Jewelers India-West News Desk FRISCO, TX - Authorities on January 29 raided Tilak Jewelers in Irving and Saima Jewelers in Frisco as part of a sweeping investigation into what Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner described as a coordinated effort to

India-West New Desk LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - Gwinnett County Police have arrested Vijay Kumar, 51, of Atlanta in connection with the fatal shooting of four adults at a Lawrenceville home early January 23, an attack investigators say stemmed from a domestic dispute. Kumar

Photo: Screenshot/https://abc11.com India-West News Desk CARY, NC - Police here are investigating the “vandalism” of a statue outside a Hindu temple after surveillance footage captured a group of individuals fleeing the scene in the early hours of January 18. Detectives said the incident

WASHINGTON, DC – Delhi Police on January 23 registered an FIR against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the American Sikh leader of the banned group Sikh for Justice, over alleged threats to create unrest in the city ahead of Republic Day celebrations

Photo: ICW WASHINGTON, DC – Under fierce criticism for the way it has been going about enforcing immigration laws, the Trump administration released a statement blaming the previous Biden administration, praising ICE, and the President. The Department of Homeland Security, in a statement on

India-West News Desk ALEXANDRIA, VA.-Five individuals, including a husband-and-wife team who operated the Red-Carpet Inn in Dumfries, appeared before a federal judge here, on January 16 on charges tied to an drug distribution operation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the

India-West Staff Reporter PORTLAND, OR- A 58-year-old man from Delhi has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to send U.S.-made aviation components and a navigation and flight control system to Russian end users in violation of export control

Photo: Somerset Country Prosecutor's Office India-West News Desk HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - A family in this Somerset County township is reeling after two young brothers were found dead in their home, a case that has stunned neighbors and the local school community. The boys,

CHICAGO, IL - A US appeals court has rejected a challenge by Sandeep Singh, a convicted drug trafficker, to his removal from the United States. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Singh’s petition on January 9. The court held that

SECAUCUS CITY, NJ- A New Jersey physician has been charged in a sweeping 58-count federal indictment accusing him of running an opioid “pill mill,” exchanging prescriptions for sexual favors, and defrauding the state’s Medicaid program over several years, US prosecutors

India-West News Desk INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Indiana State Police say two commercial truck drivers from California were arrested after an estimated $7 million worth of cocaine was discovered during a routine traffic inspection on Interstate 70. The driver and co-driver were taken into custody