Opinder Sian, 38, pleaded guilty last November to conspiracy for his role in smuggling methamphetamine around the globe
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A California judge has sentenced a Surrey drug smuggler and Brothers Keepers associate, Opinder Sian, to 6½ years in a U.S. prison.
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U.S. District Judge David O. Carter handed down the sentence to Sian in Los Angeles on May 13.
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Details from the hearing and related documents are all under seal, but U.S. Department of Justice public information officer Ciaran McEvoy confirmed the sentence length to Postmedia News.
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Sian’s lawyer, Victor Sherman, said in an email Wednesday that he applied to have the sentencing materials sealed “to protect the family letters that discussed his upbringing and for no other reasons.”
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Sian, 38, pleaded guilty last November to conspiracy for his role in smuggling methamphetamine around the globe.
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The 16-page plea agreement, signed by Sian and Sherman on Nov. 12, 2025, said there would be a recommendation for a lower sentence because of the guilty plea. The mandatory minimum for the crime is 10 years, with the maximum being life.
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Sian admitted that between Sept. 27, 2022, and Oct. 22, 2023, he “knowingly and intentionally conspired and agreed with co-conspirators to export methamphetamine from the Port of Long Beach, California, to Sydney, Australia.”
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He also agreed that during the conspiracy he “co-ordinated the delivery of methamphetamine on behalf of co-conspirators to an individual who (the) defendant believed would facilitate the transportation of methamphetamine” to Australia. But the person was in fact a confidential informant” working at the direction of the (U.S.) Drug Enforcement Administration.”
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On four occasions in summer 2023, Sian arranged for a total of 220.7 kilograms of meth to be shipped to the lucrative Australian drug market, where a single kilo can cost up to $200,000, the plea agreement also said.
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Postmedia has reported extensively on the role of B.C. gangsters in smuggling meth to Oceania.
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Sian was well-known to police in this province, though his criminal record in B.C. is dated. He survived Surrey shootings in 2008 and 2011, including one that left an associate dead.
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He was convicted of careless use of a firearm and obstruction of a peace officer in 2007. And he was regularly stopped by police between 2007 and 2010, often in vehicles with other gangsters — some with the Independent Soldiers, one of the three groups that went on to form the Wolfpack gang alliance.
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In March 2009, police searched his family home in Surrey and found cash and drugs. No charges resulted.
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One source said Sian had worked with several gangs in B.C. over the years. But they said that at the time of his June 2025 arrest in Nevada., he had links to members of the Brothers Keepers. He wasn’t a member.
