(The Daily Caller)—The founder of a Punjabi “Hells Angels” offshoot gang was sentenced to five years and four months in federal prison on Monday for gun offenses in California, the Trump administration announced.
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd laid down the punishment for “Punjabi Devils” founder Jashanpreet Singh of Lodi after he pleaded guilty in February to unlawfully dealing firearms and unlawful machine gun possession, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. Singh failed to appear in court on initial state charges for the crimes and was arrested by federal agents at San Francisco International Airport in July 2025 while trying to flee to India.
The DOJ called the Punjabi Devils “a Stockton-based outlaw motorcycle gang associated with the Hells Angels,” a violent biker gang that has been a thorn in law enforcement’s side for decades.
Singh tried selling items such as “assault weapons,” machine gun conversion devices, a revolver and a short-barreled rifle to someone he did not know was an undercover law enforcement officer in June 2025, prosecutors found.
“A search of Singh’s residence resulted in the discovery of additional firearms, including a machine gun, another machine gun conversion device, and a silencer,” the DOJ said. “Officers also discovered a single pineapple-style capped and fused hand grenade, as well as what law enforcement believed was a military electronic capped claymore mine.”
Customs and Border Protection alerted the FBI that Singh had scheduled a flight to India in three days while wanted on state charges, and federal agents tracked him down on the day of his flight to arrest him, according to the DOJ.
The DOJ touted the case as furthering “Operation Take Back America,” a Trump administration effort launched in March to dismantle “cartels and transnational criminal organizations.”
