An Indian national has been charged with distributing drugs from a pizza outlet in a California’s Fresno, the US Department of Justice said.
He was arrested on April 24, 2025, following an investigation launched by the Central South Command Unit in collaboration with the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards and was suspended from duty on the same day.
Singh sold wholesale quantities of methamphetamine from a Round Table Pizza restaurant he operated in Dinuba, while armed with illegal firearms, according to court documents. In a separate incident, an Indian-origin detective with the Metropolitan Police in London wad charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, Scotland Yard said on Thursday.
How did the investigation unfold?
If convicted, Singh faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years and up to life in prison, plus a fine of up to $10 million, for the drug trafficking charges. An investigation into Indian Organized Crime in the Central Valley identified Singh as a subject of the investigation, following which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation. He also faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison, to run consecutively to any other sentence, and up to life in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of applicable statutory factors and the federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The Central Valley HSTF is composed of agents and officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshals Service, and IRS Criminal Investigation with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.
