MOBILE, AL - On October 11, 2024, 2024, United States District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Sundar Chebiam and Roshan Landge each to 46 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Fentanyl. Both men are from India and are illegally in the United States.

Documents filed with the court established that on February 1, 2023, US Customs and Border Protection Officers at JFK Airport in New York intercepted a suspicious package coming from India via England. The package was addressed to a gas station on Schillinger Road in Mobile. Further investigation revealed the package contained 10,000 Tapentadol pills, which are a DEA Schedule II pharmaceutical drug.

Homeland Security Investigators, along with Mobile County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputies, made a controlled delivery of the package to the gas station. At that time Chebiam stated the package was for him and he accepted the package. Chebiam was then arrested and he confessed that an individual in India mails packages of prescription pills to the gas station and once he receives the packages he is paid to re-package and mail smaller amounts of pills to various addresses in the United States.

Chebiam also advised agents he had more pills at his residence, which he shared with the co-defendant, Roshan Landge. MCSO deputies then went to the residence. When they arrived they realized Landge had been tipped off about Chebiam's arrest at the gas station, as Landge was caught by deputies in the act of taking pills out of the house and loading the trunk of his car with the drugs to hide them from law enforcement. Numerous drugs were recovered from the trunk of the vehicle to include approximately 416.98 grams of fentanyl pills. Landge confessed to participating in the same drug distribution scheme as Chebiam.

The case was investigated by the US Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations and the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney George F. May.