Sameet Kang, who pleaded guilty to drug-trafficking offences that took place while he was already in custody, learned the penalty May 19 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, according to oral reasons for sentence posted online Friday (July 23).

SURREY – The brother of dead Indo-Canadian gangsters Randeep “Randy” and Gary Kang was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a long history of drug trafficking offences. 

Sameet Kang, who pleaded guilty to drug-trafficking offences that took place while he was already in custody, learned the penalty May 19 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, according to oral reasons for sentence posted online Friday (July 23).

Kang pleaded guilty in December 2020 to “directing the commission of a serious offence, namely drug trafficking, for the benefit of a criminal organization” and conspiracy to traffic in drugs, the reasons state.

Crown and defence counsel proposed consecutive terms of 1.5 years for the first offence and 12.5 years for the second. Factoring in credit for time served, Kang has just over eight years left behind bars, reported Surrey-Now-Leader newspaper.

According to the sentencing reasons, Kang’s offences took place between May 2017 and August 2018, and involved “large amounts of fentanyl and other drugs.”

“They involved trafficking in many locations in the Lower Mainland, Northern British Columbia, the Okanagan, and parts of Alberta. The offences were conducted through a criminal organization that you and your two brothers led, you as the main leader, along with numerous other co‑conspirators, some of whom have been charged and some not. You also had many employees,” associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes said.

Throughout, Kang was in custody at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre, serving a two-year sentence for drug trafficking.

“However, you ran the drug trafficking organization nonetheless, mostly by way of illicit telephone calls or other forms of communication with the co‑conspirators,” Holmes stated.

According to the reasons, Holmes heard that the organization used eight stash sites in Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby and Surrey to store, produce and package drugs, and that “changes were made from one stash site to the other to avoid detection, often with a mess left behind that sometimes included chemical hazards.”

Search warrants executed in April and June of 2018 found large amounts of drugs and cutting agents, including more than seven kilograms of fentanyl mixture, more than 5.5 kg of fentanyl, nearly two kilograms of cocaine and more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine. Cash totalling more than $77,000 was also found.

In considering sentencing, Holmes told Kang that the law considers him a relatively youthful offender. Turning 30 this year, he has “a lot of life ahead of you,” she said. 

Noting supporting letters that describe Kang as having had positive characteristics, personal skills and strength earlier in life, Holmes said he must now choose between being how those family and friends describe him and the more destructive life he has been living.

Kang’s older brother, Randeep, was killed in a targeted shooting in the 11300-block of Surrey’s Alpen Place in October 2017; his younger brother, Gary, was shot to death in the Morgan Heights neighbourhood of South Surrey on Jan. 6, 2021.

In addition to the 14-year term – reduced to eight years and four months after applying 50 months credit for time served – Holmes imposed a lifetime firearms and ammunition ban on Kang and ordered a DNA sample. She also signed a forfeiture order for 12 nine-gauge shotgun shells seized from a bedroom believed to be Kang’s.