A Sacramento Man Blamed ICE for His Wife’s Disappearance But Here is Why Detectives Arrested Him Instead

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spent weeks promoting an ICE kidnapping story that fell apart as a staged hoax.

Now a Sacramento husband has used the same script to explain his missing wife.

Detectives checked his story and found something far worse than a lie.

A Nurse Vanishes and Her Husband Points to ICE

Jasmine Gill was a 30-year-old registered nurse and the mother of an 8-month-old son.

She was last seen at her Sacramento home on September 30.

Her cousin reported her missing four days later, on October 4.

Gurinder Gill gave detectives a specific story.

He said ICE agents grabbed Jasmine right outside their house while she was getting the mail.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office treated the claim like any other missing persons case and verified it independently rather than taking Gill's word for it.

Investigators checked immigration records and found no ICE operation had ever touched that address.

Once the ICE story collapsed, detectives turned to the other thread running through Gill's life – a bitter divorce and custody fight over their baby.

His account of that morning kept shifting every time detectives pushed for specifics.

That thread is what cracked the case open.

Burned Remains in El Dorado County Changed Everything

Investigators recovered burned human remains in neighboring El Dorado County.

Personal jewelry found with the remains gave them the identification they needed.

The remains belonged to Jasmine Gill.

On October 14, deputies arrested Gurinder Gill on a murder charge.

Court documents allege he killed her with malice aforethought, and he is now being held without bail.

Detectives executed search warrants at two residences connected to him as the investigation continues.

Jasmine's family set up a fundraiser to bring her body home to her mother in India and to support the baby she left behind.

Gill is scheduled to return to court in December.

A man allegedly murdered his wife, burned the evidence, and tried to pin it on federal immigration agents to buy himself a head start.

Democrats Keep Falling for the Same ICE Hoax

Gill's story echoes a case Karen Bass championed just months earlier.

Bass promoted claims that agents snatched Mexican national Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon off the street and held her in a warehouse until she agreed to self-deport.

Her family made that claim at a press conference on June 30.

Federal prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli's office charged Calderon with conspiracy and making false statements.

Investigators say she fabricated "rescue" photos to make it look like she had been abused in ICE custody, then planned a press conference to drive donations to a GoFundMe page.

That GoFundMe pulled in thousands of dollars before it got taken down.

DHS said the scheme "scammed innocent Americans for money" who believed they were helping a real kidnapping victim.

HSI tracked Calderon down in a Bakersfield shopping plaza parking lot days later.

Bass has said nothing since the hoax collapsed, and the case against Calderon is still moving through federal court.

DHS says assaults on ICE agents have spiked 830 percent, and the department blames stories exactly like these for fueling it.

"Politicians and activist media peddled these smears that were designed to demonize law enforcement," the department said.

Two hoaxes, two coasts, one identical bet – that reporters and politicians would brand ICE the villain before anyone bothered to check.

Gurinder Gill did not even need a GoFundMe to benefit from his lie.

He just needed detectives and the public chasing ICE while his wife's remains sat burned in a neighboring county.

Every hour spent entertaining his version of events was an hour a killer walked free, and the next person who screams "ICE kidnapping" without proof should have to answer for that math.

Bass still hasn't corrected the record, and neither has anyone else who shared her original claim.

Sources:

• Rusty Weiss, "False ICE Kidnapping Claim Falls Apart in a Horrific Way," RedState, October 22, 2026.
• Mary Chastain, "Karen Bass Pushed Alleged Hoax That ICE Tried to Kidnap Illegal Alien Mom," Legal Insurrection, July 2025.
• Dallas Express Staff, "DHS: Democrats Amplified ICE Kidnapping Hoax That Helped Fuel Violence Against Agents," Dallas Express, 2026.