Dealers met in Sacramento, Bakersfield and Fresno to sell drugs to Canadians
A Davis man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin and other drugs in California and Canada using encrypted communications over cellphones, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said in a news release on Tuesday.
Parampreet Singh, 59, worked with two Sacramento-area co-defendants selling drugs, getting caught when they sold 10 kilograms of cocaine, 1.5 kilograms of opium and 2 kilograms of ketamine to undercover officers from October 2020 to April 2021, the news release said.
The deals, which also included multiple samples of heroin, were worth $637,000 in Canadian dollars and $75,000 in U.S. dollars, the news release said. They were coordinated in Sacramento, Bakersfield and Fresno, according to Singh’s plea agreement filed Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento.
Singh faces up to life in prison and a $10 million fine, Grant said in the news release. Singh has already agreed to pay $2 million to the U.S. government as part of his plea agreement, the news release said. He will be sentenced in January.
Singh’s codefendant Amandeep Multani, 37, of Roseville, pleaded guilty in 2022 and will be sentenced in November. Co-defendant Ranvir Singh, 42, of Sacramento, faces an October trial.
