EXCLUSIVE: FBI's fifth Most Wanted Fraudster captured after alleged SNAP scam suspect arrested in India
Six hundred thousand in SNAP skim. A passport he was told to keep. India finally cuffed the fifth name.
Summary
- Fox News reports Indian authorities arrested Manjit Singh Bedi on Friday, the fifth capture in three months under the FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters initiative launched in June. The five fugitives are collectively accused of more than $2 billion in fraud after nearly 4,000 combined days on the run.
- Investigators allege Bedi, a naturalized U.S. citizen, defrauded the government of at least $600,000 in SNAP benefits from March 2024 to June 2025 while running an Asian grocery in Tacoma, Washington, by swiping EBT cards, handing cash, and keeping about half.
- After indictment on wire fraud and SNAP fraud, he was ordered to surrender his passport and stay in Washington. The FBI says he drove into Canada and fled to India. A federal warrant for violating release conditions issued May 21, 2026. The bureau had offered up to $150,000 for his arrest and conviction.
- FBI Director Kash Patel called five captures in three months a historic success. Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald said the Fraud Division's reach extends to every corner of the planet.
Commentary
A Tacoma night stocker still tapes a split knuckle and watches a grocery aisle that should have sold rice, not half an EBT card. He did not pay the food tax so a passport order could lose a border.
Six. Hundred. Thousand. Five. Captures. Four thousand days. The honest mom already paid the till. The flight paid India.
Look every working father who still swipes a card for milk in the eye and answer this: if a passport order can lose a grocery thief, who still owns the next Most Wanted line?
Comments
Bedi Friday in India. Fifth in three months. $2 billion alleged. 4,000 days. Hold that stack.
I stood a warrant so a card would stay a card. Half an EBT is a theft, not a tip.
Tacoma shop. March 2024 to June 2025. Passport order. Canada, then India. May 21 warrant. Publish the five.
Allied desks still treat a skipped passport as a last night on the street. A flight is a bill.
$150,000 reward. Patel. McDonald. File the three.
I still stock a shelf at 3 a.m. I want the next skim on a plane home, not in another aisle.
A kid's food card should not fund a ticket. Keep the fifth. Hunt the sixth.
A SNAP flight is a second border around the till. The first passport order should have been enough.
Fox printed $600,000, five captures, $2 billion, and May 21. Argue those nouns.
Keep the list. Bring him back. A visitor who skims a food card is not a neighbor.
