Posted on 07/08/2026 3:02:36 AM PDT by Libloather
A sprawling global web of gangsters targeted in a massive federal takedown used California as its cash register to rake in millions of dollars through extortion schemes, contract killings, and drug and gun trafficking, authorities revealed.
Local and federal officials on Tuesday arrested 11 accused members of transnational, India-based gangs and their affiliates in the Golden State as part of a case dubbed “Operation Hard Ball.”
Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, described the gangs as the most powerful you’ve never heard of, allegedly reaping millions of dollars in illegal profits from drug deals, extortion, weapons sales and theft.
“These criminal organizations have engaged in widespread violence, including targeted killings, extortions and kidnappings,” and “flooded communities around the country with massive quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine,” Essayli said.
Court documents in the case exposed the grip the India-based organized crime syndicates allegedly have on California, even with their bosses operating from jail cells thousands of miles away.
The feared Bishnoi gang founded by Lawrence Bishnoi, who remains locked in an Indian prison, used Whatsapp to direct the movements of hundreds of pounds of drugs across California and extort victims from LA and Thousand Oaks, court documents show.
“Using contraband cellphones and other… devices smuggled into his jail cell, defendant Bishnoi personally directed political assassinations, murders, shootings, extortions, kidnappings, drug trafficking, human smuggling, and other crimes,” the documents say.
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Maybe some drug dealers have govt protection?
Maybe Gavin is getting a piece of the action.
One can’t help wondering about that sort of thing.
You’ve probably heard of them called by their other name the “H1-b cartel”.
These are mostly Khalistani terrorists and their Paki handlers.
Whole hordes of them were welcomed into Canada, even those with Interpol Red-Corner warrants. This was because the Turdeau govt was propped up by the NDP which at that time was headed by a known Khalistani financier Jagmeet Singh and this was the price of his support.
If you see all the illegal semi drivers who have created mayhem on US highways, many have the name Singh and mostly all came from the North, welcomed by the loonies in Calif.
The blame lies on US and Canadian politicians. Stop insulting India which would happily throw them in jail and lose the keys.
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