Gang boss Lawrence Bishnoi
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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Never heard of it.
Before Biden opened our borders to the dregs of the world we had no reason to hear the name.
Feather or dot?
Damn even taking our gang jobs now.
Dang Apaches.
Dot Indian criminal gang.
Gang boss Lawrence Bishnoi
With that beard, the boy must be a Non-Native American Injun.
Dot or Feathers?
Same thing in Canada , they arrested a bunch and then the gang sent a letter to police telling them they have a 1000 armed men and this is in Canada , gun control and all that . These Indians should be sent back to their hellhole , every last one of them
Just doin’ what the Hindu.
WhatsApp from his cell? Let that continue to be available, but cut off both his hands.
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There doesn’t seem to be any bottom to the corruption that comes out of California and Minnesota.
Seems like we should have heard about conflict between these guys and the Mexican cartels.
Cali......gun control and all that. Just sayin’. I had to disarm my truck this past weekend since we had gigs across the state line. Armed up again now.
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There could be a helluva Bollywood movie in that.
Essayli is doing yomen's work in So Cal - along with Nathan Hochman who replaced (Thank God) the hapless idiot George Gascon - by rooting out well entrenched fraud and corruption in California, stealing billions - which Democrat pols routinely ignore.
I'm convinced the Demos have known about the massive fraud for years.
Most likely b/c they're receiving kick-backs.
“”The gang is accused of stealing about 1,150 pounds of cocaine from rival drug dealing outfits in the greater LA area between March 2024 and July 2025.””
That’s a crime law enforcement cares about???
“”Seems like we should have heard about conflict between these guys and the Mexican cartels.””
WHY hasn’t it happened? Puzzling for sure.
I would say apparently the number of CDL truck drivers in CA from a “certain” country, are included in this loop and transporting the drugs...
India has been asking for the extradition of these fellas for about 5 years now. US and Canada won’t extradite them. In fact one of leaders funded the assassination of an Indian politician. US won’t arrest or extradite him to India. Wonder what suddenly changed in US and Canada that they went after them.
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