Crime

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - An Indian American former Indiana University student facing attempted rape charges, pleaded guilty to criminal confinement and has been sentenced to more than a year of unsupervised probation. Kalp Patel, 22, was arrested in January 2022

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC - The 19-year-old Indian American who rammed a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House, it has emerged, isn't a U.S. citizen. After being arrested on May 22, Sai Varshith Kandula, wearing orange prison clothes, made

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - An Indian American woman has been charged for driving while intoxicated, which led to a crash injuring five people, including herself, in New York City, police said. Dilmeet Kaur, the 21-year-old resident of Floral Park area,

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – The Indian American teen Sai Varshith Kandula, has been charged with threatening to kill President Joe Biden and wanting to "seize power," officials said. The 19-year- rammed a rented truck into the White House barriers on the

FORSYTH, GA (IANS) - Officials here say that after four years they have finally solved the mystery of a newborn girl shockingly left to die in the woods, with the arrest of the baby's Indian American mother. Forsyth County Sheriff, Ron

India-West News Desk PASADENA, CA – Indian-American Dharmesh Patel, has denied that he intentionally drove his family off a cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway on January 2, saying that the Tesla car he was driving malfunctioned. His claim has been

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 28-year-old Indian citizen has entered a guilty plea in a years-long international conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud that saw millions of dollars being extorted from hundreds of victims in the US. Zaheen Malvi,

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing company Theranos who was found guilty of defrauding investors, must report to prison by May 30, a court has ruled. Judge Edward Davila ordered Holmes to turn herself in

MODESTO, CA (IANS) - A 76-year-old physician has admitted that he illegally prescribed opioids to patients outside the usual course of his professional practice in the US. Sawtantra Chopra, of Modesto, pleaded guilty to three counts of illegally prescribing opioids and

TORONTO, (IANS) - A 58-year-old staffer at a Sikh temple in Canada's British Columbia province has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, the police said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they are investigating the incident, which took

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - The family members of a 33-year-old Indian American woman, who was shot at and killed by her husband last month, are raising money to help prevent gun violence. Nabaruna Karmakar, an engineer by profession, was found

DECATUR, GA (IANS) – A primary care physician has been accused of sexually assaulting four of his female patients during routine check-ups over a 12-month period. Rajesh Motibhai Patel, 68, was indicted last week on multiple counts of violating his patients'

DALLAS, TX (IANS) - Efforts are on to repatriate the mortal remains of the Indian engineer who was killed in a mass shooting at a mall in the US state of Texas on May 6, the Indian Consulate in Houston

FAIRFAX, VA (ANI) - An Indian American man has been charged for transferring thousands of dollars to Islamic State women, hoping to smuggle them out of a Syrian refugee camp. Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa,33, used social media to raise funds for those

India-West News Desk ALLEN, TX  - Thatikonda Aishwarya Reddy, 27, of Hyderabad is among those killed in the mass shooting at a mall here on May 7, which saw eight dead and seven others seriously injured. The community is readying to send

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A drunk pick-up truck driver, Amandeep Singh, slammed into a car killing two 14-year-old boys on the spot and injuring two others in Long Island, New York, police said. Singh, 34, was driving his 2019 Dodge

PORTLAND, OR (IANS) - 21-year-old Jobanpreet Singh has been booked for fatally shooting two men at a parking lot of a mall here, in a possible case of double homicide, police said. Jobanpreet was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center

TORONTO (IANS) - Punjab-origin Satinderjit Singh Brar, nicknamed Goldy Brar, the alleged mastermind in the killing of famed singer Sidhu Moosewala and an affiliate of the Lawrence Bishnoi's gang, has been listed among Canada's 25 most wanted fugitives in the

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A man was caught in a sting operation on YouTube and has been charged by a US federal prosecutor with attempting to entice a minor for sex through a dating app. "Anand Singh allegedly attempted to

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (IANS) - Dhirendra Prasad, a former Apple employee who was charged with defrauding tech giant Apple and related tax crimes, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $19 million. He was

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 47-year-old Indian American has pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud charges in connection with his scheme to dupe potential investors into supporting the technology start-up he founded and led. Manish Lachwani, who founded Silicon

RIVERSIDE, CA (IANS) – The man charged with ramming his car into a vehicle resulting in the deaths of three teens who were fleeing after one of them allegedly exposed himself at his house as a prank, has been found

EVERMAN, TX (IANS) - Arshdeep Singh, the Indian stepfather of a six-year-old boy, who is feared dead, stole $10,000 from a convenience store company in Texas where he worked, before fleeing to India with his wife and six other children,

India-West News Desk COLUMBUS, OH – As a wave of random shootings and killings rock the US, one more death has shocked the Indian American community. A 25-year-old student, two weeks from getting his graduate degree, was shot and killed here on

JERSEY CITY, NJ (IANS) - A 26-year-old  man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a sex worker at a hotel here, following a disagreement over money, police said. Vineeth Ravuri of Jersey City was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, criminal

Photo : California Attorney General Rob Bonta said various government agencies and law enforcement officials had worked together in a unified manner. SACRAMENTO, CA (IANS) - Police have arrested 17 Sikh men from rival criminal syndicates for their alleged involvement in

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - An Indian American tax return preparer faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison after pleading guilty to evading assessment of his personal federal income taxes. Samir Patel of Statesboro, GA, was a tax return

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - The 64-year-old priest of the Philadelphia Sikh Temple in Millbourne has been arrested for allegedly sexually-assaulting a girl when she was a five-year-old by "inappropriately touching" her for at least seven years, a media report said.Balwinder Singh of

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Two Indian American executives of a Chicago-based health technology startup have been convicted for their roles in a $1 billion fraud scheme that targeted the company's clients, lenders, and investors. Rishi Shah, 37, co-founder and former

TORONTO, (IANS) - Canadian police have arrested a 28-year-old man in a hate-motivated incident at a mosque in Ontario and charged him for yelling threats and religious slurs at the worshippers. Sharan Karunakaran, 28, drove directly at one of the worshippers

FORT WORTH, TX (IANS) - The FBI and other US federal agencies are working to extradite a couple who fled to India after arrest warrants were issued against them for abandoning/endangering a child, who is now feared dead, police said. Six-year-old

NEWARK, NJ (IANS) - Ashish Bajaj, 29, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution for his role in an international conspiracy that preyed on elderly victims in the US. He pleaded guilty

WINDSOR, ON (IANS) - Condemning the vandalization of a Hindu temple in Ontario province, India on April 6 asked Canada in strictest terms to catch the perpetrators and ensure that incidents like these do not happen again. The BAPS Swaminarayan temple,

TORONTO, (IANS) - A former Ontario government employee has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing $47.4 million from the provincial government, which included $10.8 million of Covid aid. Sanjay Madan, who served as an

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) - Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the fire-bombing of an office building in Wisconsin last May. The 29-year-old resident of Madison was arrested at Boston's Logan airport with a one-way ticket to

PARISPPANY, NJ (IANS) - Two men have been arrested for stealing over $100,000 from a 78-year-old woman in Massachusetts via a computer virus scam, police said. Nikit S Yadav, 22, and Raj Vipul Patel, 21, of Parsippany,NJ were involved in a

SAN RAMON, CA (IANS) - An Indian American, who was arrested and charged in July 2022, has pleaded guilty to 13 counts arising from his participation in a scheme to commit insider trading based on material, non-public information that he

TORONTO, (IANS) -A 32-year-old Indian-origin man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder of a Canadian in downtown Vancouver, police said. Inderdeep Singh Gosal fatally stabbed Paul Stanley Schmidt, 37, after a brief altercation between two men outside the Starbucks

India-West News Desk SACRAMENTO, CA - Two people were critically injured when shots were fired during a parade at a Sikh temple here, authorities said on March 26. The shooting was reported at around 2.30 p.m. at the Gurdwara Sacramento Sikh

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 35-year-old man has been sentenced by a judge in Caddo Parish, LA,to 100 years of hard labor for causing the death of a five-year-old IndianAmerican child in 2021. Man to serve 100 years in prison

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 34-year-old cruise ship employee from Goa has been sentenced in a federal district court to 188 months in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material. Angelo Victor Fernandes sent 13 child pornography videos through an

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 22-year-old American has been sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release for selling a stolen handgun to a teenager who used it to kill an Indian American Sikh

YOUNGSTOWN, OH (IANS) - Three people, including two Indian Americans, are facing charges for allegedly buying and selling stolen beer worth approximately $20,000 at two local businesses, here. Ketan kumar Patel and Piyush kumar Patel were arraigned this week in Mahoning

India-West News Desk CORONA, CA - Punjabi actor Aman Dhaliwal, who also had a minor role in the Bollywood film 'Jodhaa Akbar' starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai, was attacked in a gym, here on March 14.A video doing the rounds

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Passenger Shankar Mishra, who is accused of urinating on an elderly female co-passenger on a New York-Delhi Air India flight, has moved the Delhi High Court seeking constitution of an appellate committee to hear his appeal

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Father of an Indian American doctor killed by carjackers in Northwest DC, last year, worries that the thieves, who remain at large, may still be harming others. Rakesh Patel, 33, from Washington Hospital Center had left

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student of Indian-origin was arrested after threatening students and staff at his alma mater with an email saying he planned to hide the flesh of their children in hamburger

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 38-year-old Indian American has pleaded guilty to charges related to almost $20 million in fraud that he perpetrated while on federal pretrial release for another crime. Nikesh Ajay Patel of Florida was charged with 13

Photo: provider.kareo.com India-West News Desk An Indian American doctor pressured his patients into getting unnecessary brain stimulation treatments and then billed Medicare for it. Dr. Ashok Jain, 61, and the psychiatric companies he owned and operated have agreed to pay $3 million to

LEXINGTON, KY (IANS) - An Indian American man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of sex-related crimes, and admitted he was a part of 30 online communities, which traded sexually explicit images of minors, a media report said. Mayank M Patel,