{"id":792649,"date":"2026-07-10T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792649\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:18:14","slug":"drug-kingpin-from-brampton-sentenced-to-20-years-in-u-s-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792649\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug kingpin from Brampton sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario man convicted in the United States of running a drug-trafficking operation across the border into Canada has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Guramrit Sidhu of Brampton, Ont., pleaded guilty earlier this year to leading a drug ring from September 2020 to February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A California court heard that between September and October 2022, more than 500 kilograms of methamphetamine and nearly 350 kilograms of cocaine were brought from the U.S. into Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Central District of California says these drug shipments were worth up to US$17 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu was arrested and extradited to the U.S. in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney\u2019s office says Sidhu is the eighth person to plead guilty in the case.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 44,148 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,423,884 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    999 VOTES<br \/>\n    Do you think Canada did a good job of hosting the World Cup?    <\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ontario man convicted in the United States of running a drug-trafficking operation across the border into Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-792649","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\/792649","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=792649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}