A Brampton, Ont., man may spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking up to US$17 million worth of meth and cocaine into Canada.
The FBI in Los Angeles says 62-year-old Guramrit Sidhu pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.
He now faces a minimum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. The charge carries a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The FBI said in a news release Thursday that Sidhu was the lead defendant in a 23-count January 2024 federal indictment targeting a drug trafficking organization. He has been in federal custody since October 2024 after being extradited from Canada.
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According to his plea agreement, between September 2020 and February 2023, he led an organization responsible for trafficking drugs into Canada from the U.S.
From Sept. 13, 2022, to Oct.24, 2022, Sidhu orchestrated the distribution of eight separate drug loads, totalling approximately 523 kilograms of methamphetamine and 347 kilograms of cocaine.
Authorities seized those loads, and estimated a wholesale value of approximately US$15 to US$17 million.
“After buying the bulk quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine in the U.S., Sidhu arranged for the narcotics’ transportation into Canada via long-haul semi-trucks for further distribution,” the FBI said.
“Sidhu provided telephone numbers and serial numbers on bills of currency for couriers to use as a ‘token’ for identification purposes during the delivery and transportation of the cocaine and methamphetamine.”
Sidhu and co-conspirators then retrieved the drugs from locations within Canada for further distribution, the FBI added.
He is the seventh defendant to plead guilty in the case. The others who pleaded guilty have been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from 27 months to 108 months, the FBI said.
Sidhu’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 9.
I truly wish I was surprised yet another non Canadian from Brampton is involved in crime. Lioberals have destroyed Canada with runaway immigration
I thought the progressive liberals said there was no issue with drugs in Canada, and Trump saying Canada let’s fentanyl into USA was a lie. Seems the rcmp/ police have been finding quite a bit within the country, of all flavors. But the big question is, what was the sentence for these criminals? Did they get house arrest because it might mess with their immigration status? Are the progressive judges looking at the “hard” life these criminals live, and so gave them low bail? The rcmp isn’t working with other countries and certainly doesn’t have canada nor Canadians best interests at heart when they never intended to interview people involved in criminal activity, I’m calling out the head of the rcmp being asked if he had intent on interviewing Justin trudeau when that investigation was opened up on him, they sure didn’t like to talk about it but at the same time, they sure didn’t care to do anything about it either.
Canada needs a complete reform and needs to do away with the progressive idealogy, it’s evil and did nothing good for humanity