{"id":563353,"date":"2026-03-27T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:06:07","slug":"brampton-man-pleads-guilty-to-u-s-charges-in-17-million-drug-trafficking-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563353\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man pleads guilty to U.S. charges in $17 million drug trafficking ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-year-old Brampton man pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday to leading a criminal organization that was responsible for trafficking $17 million worth of methamphetamine and cocaine into Canada.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials say Guramrit Sidhu is the lead defendant in a 23-count federal indictment issued in January 2024 that saw 19 people charged for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/canadian-national-pleads-guilty-leading-group-trafficked-more-850-kilograms-meth-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">their alleged roles in the organized crime syndicate<\/a>, including Roberto Scoppa, a Montreal man alleged by authorities to be a large-scale Canadian trafficker and Italian Mafia figure.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement of fact presented in court, from September 2020 to February 2023, Sidhu was responsible for bringing drugs from the United States into Canada. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter buying the bulk quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine in the U.S., Sidhu arranged for the narcotics\u2019 transportation into Canada via long-haul semi-trucks for further distribution,\u201d the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in California said. \u201cSidhu and co-conspirators then retrieved the cocaine and methamphetamine from locations within Canada for further distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9, where he faces a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life in a federal prison. <\/p>\n<p>Several other defendants who have already pleaded guilty in the case have received sentences ranging from 27 months ot 108 months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 62-year-old Brampton man pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday to leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-563353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}