Every day, millions of Americans share the highway with 80,000-pound 18-wheelers barreling down the interstate at seventy miles an hour. You glance over, maybe speed up a little to get past, and you trust — because you’ve been told — that the person behind that wheel is licensed, vetted, and legal. Democrats have assured us the system works. California has assured us their roads are safe.
Keep that in mind as we talk about what happened on Interstate 70 in Indiana last month.
On June 27, Greenfield police received an alert about a semi-truck heading westbound through Hancock County, linked to a cargo theft reported out of Pennsylvania two days earlier. Officers tracked the rig on a Flock camera system, pulled it over, and found Deepak Kumar, 31, in the driver’s seat. He handed them three pieces of identification — a fraudulent New York driver’s license, an invalid federal work permit, and a valid California commercial driver’s license. Three IDs. One guy. Only one of them was real, and frankly, that’s the one that should never have existed in the first place.
So what was in the trailer? Ten pallets of tungsten oxide powder — nearly 40,000 pounds of it — valued at $2.8 million. The toxic compound is used in manufacturing armor-piercing bullets, military-grade ceramics, lasers, and high-tech optical equipment. It belonged to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation and was scheduled for shipment to Japan. Not exactly a load of frozen chicken.
A real CDL and a fake everything else
From the Greenfield Police Department:
Mr. Kumar is suspected of using fraudulent documents to obtain a load of nearly 40,000 pounds of Tungsten Oxide Powder that was being shipped to Japan. The value of the cargo Mr. Kumar fraudulently received is $2,857,500.00 and was being shipped to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation in Japan. Mr. Kumar was arrested at the stop location and taken to the Hancock County Jail.
Now here’s the part that ought to make your blood boil. Kumar is an illegal immigrant from India who snuck past border authorities at an unknown time. And yet Gavin Newsom’s California handed him a legitimate commercial driver’s license because he’d obtained Employment Authorization Documents — without anyone bothering to verify whether he was actually a legal resident. The irony is almost poetic: the only real document Kumar carried was the one the state of California never should have issued him.
The Trump administration has since tagged California as one of the worst offenders in handing CDLs to illegal immigrants, launching a federal crackdown after a string of fatal crashes left Americans dead at the hands of unvetted foreign drivers. Meanwhile, cargo theft nationally has surged 36 percent this year over 2024. And Kumar? He wasn’t exactly a first-time offender. DHS confirmed his criminal history includes multiple prior arrests for fraud, swindling, identity theft, forgery, and larceny.
You’d think that record might make the news. Instead, some outlets called him a “Fresno man.” I wish I were joking. DHS publicly corrected the record, noting he’s not from Fresno — he’s an illegal alien from India with a rap sheet that should have kept him off American roads permanently.
What’s really rolling down the highway
Here’s what keeps me up at night. Then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons warned that with this many unvetted foreign nationals behind the wheels of commercial trucks, a terrorist attack wasn’t just possible — it was inevitable. “We don’t know what they’re carrying across state lines in an 18-wheeler,” Lyons said. “Terrorists will stop at nothing to harm the United States, and it is well within the realm of possibility that some of these trucks could be carrying toxic chemicals, bombs, or God knows what.”
This time it was tungsten oxide headed for a Japanese corporation. This time nobody died. But how many more Deepak Kumars are out there tonight, rolling through your town with a California-issued CDL, a wallet full of fake documents, and a trailer full of something we don’t want to think about?
Next time an 18-wheeler blows past you on the interstate, remember — Democrats promised you the driver was qualified. Sleep tight.
Key Takeaways
- An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record stole $2.8 million in military-grade chemicals off a U.S. highway.
- Gavin Newsom’s California issued him a real commercial driver’s license without verifying legal residency.
- Cargo theft has surged 36% this year while federal officials warn of terrorist threats via commercial trucks.
- Media outlets called the suspect a “Fresno man” until DHS publicly set the record straight.
Sources: Breitbart, Daily Wire
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