Crime

India-West Staff Reporter ERIE, PA – An Indian national residing here on a student visa has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, US Attorney Eric G. Olshan

India-West Staff Reporter HOUSTON, TX - An Indian national has been charged with selling and shipping counterfeit oncology pharmaceuticals worth tens of thousands of dollars into the US, following an indictment by a federal grand jury in Houston on July 25. The

Photo: Rutherford County Sheriff MURFREESBORO, TN - Meer Patel, a store clerk here, has been accused of stealing a $1 million winning lottery ticket from its rightful owner and attempting to cash in on the prize. The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office

Photo: REUTERS/Lindsay DeDario NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS) - The man accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushdie in New York two years ago now faces federal terrorism charges for his alleged support for Hezbollah, according to an indictment unsealed on

Photo: OpenOversight India-West News Desk SEATTLE, WA - A Seattle Police Department officer has been terminated following outrage over his insensitive remarks and laughter after the tragic death of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old Indian student. Kandula was struck and killed by a

Photo: Fox4 News India-West News Desk DALLAS, TX - Four Indian Americans, including a woman, have been charged with operating a labor trafficking scheme from a residence in Collins County, near here. Chandan Dasireddy, 24, Dwaraka Gunda, 31, Santhosh Katkoori, 31, and Anil

India-West News Desk BERKELEY, CA - In a brazen daylight heist, masked robbers armed with guns and sledgehammers stormed the Bombay Jewelry Company in Berkeley over the weekend, making off with $500,000 worth of merchandise, authorities report. The robbery occurred on July

India-West News Desk NEW YORK, NY - The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie has declined a plea deal that would have reduced his state prison sentence but introduced a federal terrorism-related charge. Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail

Photo: LinkedIn India-West News Desk CHICAGO, IL - Mona Ghosh, who owns and operates Progressive Women's Healthcare, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology services, pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud. Each count is punishable by up to ten years in

Photo: Facebook India-West News Desk NASHVILLE, TN – Umesh Dahal, 41, was attending a concert by the Nepali band Mantra, in the lower level of Topgolf here, when an argument erupted inside, causing people to leave and go into the parking lot,

India-West News Desk CHICAGO, IL - Former Outcome Health CEO Rishi Shah, once feted in the city, has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison for orchestrating a billion dollar fraud scheme that funded a lavish lifestyle featuring private aircraft and

Photo: Lehigh University India-West News Desk PHILADELPHIA, PA - An Indian student, Aryan Anand, has been arrested and deported after it was discovered that he fake documents to secure a full scholarship at Lehigh University. Anand, who was a first-year student, was

Photo: Facebook India-West News Desk GROVE, OK - Hemant Mistry, a 59-year-old general manager at a motel here, died after being attacked on June 22 when he asked 41-year-old Richard Lewis to leave the motel property. Lewis punched Mistry to the ground, where

India-West News Desk LITTLE ROCK, AR - On June 21, a shooter opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, a small town of 3,200 residents located about 70 miles south of Little Rock, killing four people and wounding

India-West News Desk SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Dharmesh Arvind Patel, the Pasadena doctor who drove his Tesla off Highway 1 on the San Mateo County coast with his family inside, will avoid jail time. San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe's

India-West News Desk PLANO, TX - Esmeralda Upton on June 14 pleaded guilty to three counts of assault and one count of making terrorist threats after her unprovoked, racist attack on four Indian American women. The hate crime, recorded on a smartphone

India-West Staff Reporter SUNNYVALE, CA - Silicon Valley authorities held a meeting with members and leaders of the Indian American community on June 14 following a series of thefts targeting Indian PNG Jewellers stores, assuring tough action against the criminals. The meeting happened

Photo: Saurabh Gadgil tweeted this image in August 2023 marking the company's 15th year in the US India-West News Desk SUNNYVALE, CA - Five suspects were arrested on June 13 after a bold, daytime smash-and-grab robbery at the Indian American owned Sunnyvale

India-West News Desk DALLAS, TX - Bhushan Athale, 48, has been charged with a federal hate crime and is accused of issuing interstate threats against Sikh employees of a Sikh nonprofit organization. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in

Photo: Republicworld.com India-West News Desk JAIPUR, INDIA – A US woman was reportedly deceived by a jewelry shop owner in Rajasthan after purchasing jewels worth Rs 6 crore, only to discover they were fake and valued at just Rs 300. According to police,

Photo: Karamjit (on right), with his brother and sister. Source: CBS2 NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - An Indian American man, shot his brother dead, injured his mother, and then killed himself, according to police. Karamjit Multani, 33, shot his brother Vipanpal, 27,

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - In yet another incident, an email was received regarding a bomb in a Air Canada flight scheduled to depart for Toronto from IGI airport on June 4, an official said, adding that it turned out to

India-West News Desk SACRAMENTO, CA — The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has revealed troubling data on hate incidents in the state, showing that anti-Hindu incidents rank second highest among religiously motivated hate crimes. According to the findings from the year-long

India-West News Desk CHICAGO, IL - In a crackdown on visa fraud, a federal court has indicted six individuals, including four Indians, for orchestrating armed robberies in Chicago and its suburbs. The purpose of these staged crimes was to exploit U.S.

OTTAWA (ANI) - Amandeep Singh, a 22-year-old suspect implicated in the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, made a virtual appearance before a Surrey court in Canada on May 15. The court session, marred by technical delays, ended with Singh

Photo: cnn.com India-West Staff Reporter WASHINGTON, DC – Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty on May 13 in an attempted attack on the White House, on May 22, 2023, that included driving a U-Haul truck into the fence

India-West Staff Reporter SACRAMENTO, CA – In a public statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Sacramento Field Office has warned of an extortion scheme affecting individuals with familial or business ties to India. The field office is tracking several instances throughout

FRESNO, CA  (IANS) - Fresno police on May 1 denied reports that one of the two persons attacked in a shooting incident was Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar. “If you are inquiring because of the online chatter claiming that the shooting victim

Photo:manhattanda.org India-West Staff Reporter NEW YORK, NY - On April 26, New York prosecutors announced the return of 30 antiquities to Cambodia and Indonesia, stating that the items had been looted, sold, or illegally transferred by networks of American dealers and traffickers,

TORONTO (IANS)  - Two Indo Canadian men are among five South Asians arrested for Canada's largest gold heist at Toronto airport. On April 17, 2023, in the largest gold heist at Canada's biggest airport, 6,600 gold bars valued at over (Canadian)

VANCOUVER (IANS) - A 24-year-old Indian student was shot dead in his car in Sunset neighborhood here, police said on April 14.Chirag Antil, 24, was found dead inside a vehicle in the area. After hearing the gunshots, residents in the neighborhood

India-West News DeskSEATTLE, WA - Authorities on March 24 arrested and charged five individuals in connection with a series of residential burglaries affecting Indian American and other South Asian communities in the Kirkland area.The Seattle Times reports that Lamar Curtis,

Photo: Sherburne County Sheriff India-West News Desk DULUTH, MN - Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who has been accused of smuggling people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including the Gujarati family that froze to death on the border in 2022, has entered

Photo: Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office India-West Staff Reporter MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Securities Commission has indicted 23-year-old Pathyam Patel, also known as Pat Patel, an investment adviser for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of over $4,00,000. He then, the

India-West News Desk NEW YORK, NY – The unfortunate reports of Indians entering the US illegally continues with another dramatic story. This time, a group of three leaped from a moving freight train originating from Canada onto the International Railroad Bridge.

India-West News Desk JACKSONVILLE, FL - Former Jaguars employee Amit Patel, who admitted to embezzling $22 million from the team, received a 6½-year prison sentence . U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. also ordered Patel, 31, to pay $21.1 million

CHICAGO, IL (IANS) - The Office of the Consulate General of India in Chicago said on March 2 that it is extending all possible help to relatives and deceased of Amarnath Ghosh, the Kuchipudi dancer from Kolkata, who was shot

Photo: Facebook India-West News Desk ST.LOUIS, MO - Amarnath Ghosh, a dancer who was pursuing a doctorate at the prestigious Washington University here, was shot dead while taking an evening walk. Initial reports say he was shot several times by an unknown

Photo: Royal Canadian Mounted Police India-West News Desk CHICAGO, IL - US authorities have arrested Harshkumar Patel, the primary suspect in the tragic human trafficking incident of 2022, where four members of a family from Gujarat, froze to death while being smuggled

India-West News Desk SEATTLE, WA - In the tragic incident of January 23, where 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula was fatally struck by a Seattle police vehicle, Officer Kevin Dave, who was driving and responding to a drug overdose call at a speed

India-West Staff Reporter OAKLAND, CA – Dileep Kumar Reddy Kamujula has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to forfeit $130,369.28 by a district court. Kamujula, 37, of Fremont, pleaded guilty to the charge on November 3, 2023. According to

TORONTO (IANS) – A man who was arrested and recently charged with extortion threats targeting South Asian businesses in Canada, has claimed he is innocent, saying police are wrongly portraying him as a high-level gangster. Arundeep Thind, 39, was among five

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) - Alarmed by a surge in impersonation fraud or deepfakes around the globe, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sought to modify a rule that would prohibit the impersonation of individuals. The Lina Khan-led agency said in

Photo: Ethnic Media Services By Selen Ozturk On February 9, the Federal Trade Commission released data showing that nationwide fraud losses topped $10 billion in 2023 — 14% more than 2022. Nevertheless, the dramatic loss owes less to more reports than to more

Photo: facebook SAN MATEO, CA (IANS) – The former Meta engineer Anand Henry has been identified as a suspect in a murder-suicide involving himself, his wife, and their four-year-old twins, the police said. Henry and his wife Alice Priyanka Benziger, both in

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – Sukhdev Vaid, 24, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in stealing $150,000 from an elderly woman. He admitted targeting elderly Americans via an international computer-hacking scheme that resulted in

TORONTO, (IANS) - With 13 bullets pumped into her body, the lone survivor of a shooting spree in Canada last year who watched her Sikh parents die in front of her, wants swift justice and says police didn't do their

SHEFFIELD, AL (IANS) - A 76-year-old motel owner was shot dead here following a confrontation over room rental. Pravin Raojibhai Patel, the owner of Hillcrest Motel, was gunned down on February 8 after which police arrested 34-year-old William Jeremy Moore, Alabama-based

SAN MATEO, CA (IANS) – A couple and their four-year-old twins have been found dead inside their home here. Police are investigating the deaths of Anand Sujith Henry, 42, his wife Alice Priyanka, 40, and their sons Noah and Neithan as

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for staging armed robberies to commit visa fraud in Massachusetts. Rambhai Patel, 36, and Balwinder Singh, 39, from New York staged armed robberies so