Gavin Newsom's sanctuary state let thousands of criminal illegal aliens walk free this year.
Now a Tulare County pizza shop is showing exactly what that policy protects.
Federal agents just found what one illegal immigrant was hiding behind the counter.
A Pattern Federal Agents Have Seen Before
Kawal Preet Singh ran a Round Table Pizza in Dinuba, California.
He's a 50-year-old Indian national living in the country illegally.
Federal prosecutors say he used that pizza counter to move massive quantities of methamphetamine.
Agents allegedly found more than 40 pounds of meth split between his home and his Hyundai parked at the restaurant.
They also seized three guns and $11,800 in cash.
This isn't a one-off.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota once unsealed a 46-count indictment against a man who ran three Mexican restaurants as fronts for a six-year drug operation, moving cocaine, meth and marijuana while staffing the kitchens with undocumented workers.
Earlier this year, a previously deported illegal alien in Georgia was charged with trafficking methamphetamine after agents watched him load it into a Jeep outside a fast-food restaurant.
This is a script federal agents keep running into – an illegal immigrant, a drug operation, hiding in plain sight.
The Network Behind the Pizza Counter
This case isn't really about one man and a pizza oven.
Investigators tied Singh's operation to a tip about a trafficker known only as "Camy."
An FBI affidavit tied Camy to a broader crew of Sikh Indian truckers accused of moving narcotics together.
That matches a pattern federal agents have flagged for years – Indian-linked trucking and organized crime networks moving cocaine and meth across North America.
Just weeks ago, federal agents in California's Central Valley arrested Harmanveer Singh, another Indian national, tied to the Ravinder Dhanda organized crime group, a Vancouver-based outfit accused of moving drugs for trafficking networks on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
Singh's case sits inside that same Central Valley corridor, tied to the same nationality of trafficking suspects federal agents keep flagging in the region.
One pizza shop doesn't build a smuggling network like that on its own.
Why This Happened in California
California isn't just where this case landed.
It's the state that made this kind of operation easier to run.
Earlier this year, DHS said ICE had active detainers on more than 33,000 criminal illegal aliens in California's custody.
The agency also said thousands of those detainers had gone unhonored, with criminal illegal aliens released straight into California communities instead of being handed to federal agents.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has argued that sanctuary-state politicians are handing dangerous criminals back to the same communities they were pulled out of.
Singh wasn't caught because Sacramento was looking for him.
He was caught because federal agents – not state ones – ran a tip about a trucking-linked trafficker all the way to a strip-mall pizza counter.
Washington keeps chasing traffickers that Sacramento's sanctuary policies were never built to stop.
Round Table Pizza's parent company, FAT Brands, says the location was independently owned and operated and that the local owners had no knowledge of the alleged activity.
The Dinuba store is permanently closed now, but the trucking network the FBI says fed it almost certainly isn't.
Singh is presumed innocent and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.
He faces at least 10 years in federal prison on the drug charges alone if convicted, with the firearm count potentially adding at least five more.
His next hearing is set for November 4, and whatever happens to him personally, the pipeline investigators described doesn't go away when one indictment closes.
Sanctuary policy didn't create that pipeline, but it's the reason federal agents, not state officials, are the ones chasing it down county by county.
Sacramento's answer to all of this is that honoring detainers without a judge's signature raises due-process concerns – the same talking point Newsom's office reaches for every time a case like this one surfaces.
Sources:
- Stepheny Price, "California pizza joint allegedly used as meth distribution hub as illegal immigrant charged," Fox News, September 5, 2026.
- U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California, cited in The Fresno Bee, September 2026.
- "SANCTUARY CALAMITY: DHS and ICE Urgently Call on Gavin Newsom and Sanctuary California," U.S. Department of Homeland Security, February 6, 2026.
- Stephen Montemayor, "Twin Cities-area Mexican restaurant chain hid a vast drug conspiracy, federal prosecutors charge," Star Tribune, August 24, 2016.
- U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia, Department of Justice press release, 2026.
- Pramod Kumar Singh, "Indian national arrested in California over drug trafficking," Daily Pioneer, 2026.
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