Crime

STOCKTON, CA (IANS) - Two US convenience store employees, including a Sikh, are now facing an investigation for thrashing a shoplifter with a stick in a 5-minute video clip, which went viral late last month. "It has been brought to our

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 40-year-old Indian national living in Canada has pleaded guilty to smuggling several Indian nationals from Canada into the US for profit. Simranjit 'Shally' Singh admitted six counts of alien smuggling and three counts of conspiracy

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Indian and South Asian families in several towns in Massachusetts are being increasingly targeted by thieves for their expensive jewelry. According to CBS News, the robbery cases are now being investigated by law enforcement, including the

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A prominent Indian American restaurateur, who helped convict a powerful local politician and exposed widespread corruption, has been sentenced to four years for bribing him. Harendra Singh, 64, who operated about a dozen restaurants and catering

GILROY, CA (IANS) - An Indian American teenager died after being shot at by an 18-year-old. The perpetrator is presently in police custody here. A social media post shared by the family members identified the victim as Jackson Kavil who passed

ALBUQUERQUE, NM (IANS) - Two men have admitted to drug and firearms charges arising from a drug trafficking venture run out of a motel here. Kamal Bhula, 44, and Pragneshkumar “Pete” Patel, 36, Patel, pled guilty to one count each of

SEATTLE, WA (IANS) - A speeding cop, who struck and killed a 23-year-old Indian student in January this year, has admitted in newly-released bodycam footage that he “f–ked up” after the tragic crash in Seattle. Jaahnavi Kandula, a student at Northeastern

TORONTO, (IANS) - Fifteen Indo-Canadian men, mostly Punjabis from Brampton, have been arrested for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar auto and cargo theft ring in and around Toronto. The gang would steal tractor-trailers loaded with cargo and sell stolen products to

RICHMOND, VA (IANS) - An Indian American couple has been charged with multiple offenses, including confiscating a worker's documents, forcing him to provide services for minimal pay, and subjecting him to threats at their gas station and convenience store in

TORONTO, (IANS) - A 26-year-old off-duty Canadian-Sikh police officer, who fatally shot himself earlier this year, was facing investigation for sending inappropriate texts to a 15-year-old girl, recently unsealed court documents found. Dilbag 'Dylan' Hothi, an officer with the Surrey Police

RIVERSIDE, CA (IANS) - A 45-year-old man has been sentenced to life without parole for his role in the January 2020 car crash that killed three teenage boys in California who had pranked him by ringing his doorbell and running

TORONTO, (IANS) - An Indian Canadian gas station owner has been fined $60,000 after a human rights tribunal found that he took advantage of an Indian worker's precarious immigration status. Kuldip Singh, owner of Husky gas station in Burnaby, withheld Harika

CLEVELAND, OH (IANS) - An Indian American financial planner from Cleveland has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government in addition to aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns. Rao Garuda, President, and Chief Executive Officer of

PANAJI, (IANS) - Goa crime branch police on July 12 busted a fake call center involving nine accused persons who were cheating citizens of the United States. Police conducted a raid on an illegal call center at Majorda, Salcete in South

PASADENA, CA (IANS) - The Indian American doctor, accused of deliberately driving his wife and two kids off a 250-foot California cliff, suffers from a major depressive disorder and needs treatment, his lawyers have said. Dharmesh Patel, a 42-year-old radiologist, was

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Fourteen people, mostly Indian American, have been charged for bilking a Covid-era financial program, and numerous financial institutions out of more than $53 million in loan proceeds. The defendants were arrested last week in Texas, California,

TORONTO, (IANS) - A 25-year-old Indo-Canadian man, who was named by the police as a significant threat to the public last year due to his role in gang activities, has been shot dead in the British Columbia province. The Integrated Homicide

WRENS, GA (IANS) - A 36-year-old Indian American convenience store clerk died on the spot here after being shot at by two 15-year-olds in what appeared to be a case of armed robbery, police said. Mandeep Singh, 36, of Rosier Road

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - An attorney who once ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives has been indicted by a federal jury in Boston for defrauding clients of more than $5 million in escrow funds. Abhijit "Beej"

KISSIMMEE, FL (IANS) - A 72-year-old Indian-origin urologist from Florida has been accused of incorrectly performing the vasectomy procedure on his 51-year-old patient. According to a complaint by the Florida Department of Health, Dilipkumar Patel performed the procedure on the right

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A former Pfizer statistician and his accomplice, both hailing from India, has been charged with insider trading by the US financial regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC’s complaint, filed in a district court in New York, charged Amit Dagar and Atul Bhiwapurkar with

ELK GROVE, CA (IANS) - A 49-year-old Indian American man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for illegally bringing hundreds of Indian nationals across the border from Canada and then to locations in the Midwest and beyond,

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - The man who allegedly speeded the wrong way has been charged in a crash that killed two teens here in a local suburb, according to media reports. Amandeep Singh, 34, was produced in court on June

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has mentioned in its charge sheet against Lawrence Bishnoi that the gangster didn't directly talk to any shooter but routed them through his close associates, including Satinderjit Singh alias Goldy Brar

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Brijesh Goel has been convicted of insider trading and obstruction of justice by a New York jury, after prosecutors said he passed tips about potential mergers to a friend. Goel, 38,

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (IANS) - An Indian American doctor is facing sexual assault charges for inappropriately touching a co-worker at a medical facility in California. Rachandeep Singh, a medical director at the River Pointe Post-Acute Care Facility in Carmichael, was arrested

OTTAWA (ANI) - Khalistan Tiger Force chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was wanted in India with National Investigation Agency (NIA) having announced a cash reward on him, was gunned down outside a gurdwara in the parking area in Canada's Surrey,

PASADENA, CA (IANS) – The doctor, accused of deliberately driving his Tesla off a cliff with his wife and children inside the vehicle, has been barred from practicing medicine by regulators in California. Dharmesh Patel, a 41-year-old radiologist at Providence Holy

GURUGRAM, (IANS) - A team of the Cyber Crime police station has busted a fake call center in Gurugram district and arrested 14 people, including three women and the call center owner, during the intervening night of June 7,police said. The

MIAMI, FL (IANS) - Two men are facing fraud charges for conning a 69-year-old woman by swindling $80,000 from her over the phone, police said. Parth Patel, 33, and Jayarami Kuruguntla, 25, were both arrested and booked into the Marion

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A 40-year-old man accused of killing his wife and three of her family members in 2019 appeared in a US county court for a pretrial hearing with his third defense team. Gurpreet Singh, a former truck

TORONTO, (IANS) - A father and son duo have been arrested and charged in Canada for sexually assaulting and exploiting multiple teenage girls over the course of several months, police said. Gurpartap Singh Walia, 56, and his son Sumrit Walia, 24,

ATLANTA, GA (IANS) - A 70-year-old Indian American motel manager has pleaded guilty to trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude or forced labor, according to the US Department of Justice. Shreesh Tiwari, an Indian citizen, and green card holder,

Photo: Evablue, Facebook NEW YORK, NY (IANS) - A district court in the US has ordered the detention of an Indo-Canadian entrepreneur following indictment on charges of laundering 450 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at $24,020,699.83 at the time of the transaction. The order

TORONTO, (IANS) - A man accused of killing an Indian student in 2022 in Canada's British Columbia province will stand trial on the charge of second-degree murder. Dante Ognibene-Hebbourn, 23, was apprehended under the Mental Health Act after the February 26,

OTTAWA (IANS) - Calls to remove a video circulating online of a Canadian Sikh woman whose gruesome killing was caught on camera, have been picking up steam with netizens urging social media giants to remove the graphic content. Davinder Kaur, 43,

PHILADELPHIA, PA (IANS) - A 21-year-old student was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Philadelphia, a media report said. Jude Chacko, hailing from Kerala's Kollam district, was gunned down while he was returning from work on May 29. His parents migrated to

VANCOUVER (ANI) - In a suspected case of gang conflict, a 28-year-old Punjab-origin man, who was on Canadian police's most violent gangsters' list, has been shot dead by unidentified assailants at a wedding venue here, in Canada. According to reports Amarpreet

NORFOLK, VA (IANS) - A 38-year-old Indian American hacker has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for hacking into computers and stealing customer credit card numbers. Chirag Patel from Norfolk pleaded guilty to computer fraud and was sentenced

Photo: Sabadc twitter. WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) - Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison over his role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot. While prosecutors had demanded 25

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