One person has been arrested and charged, while another remains outstanding, following what police are calling two \u201cextortion-related\u201d shootings in Peel Region.<\/p>\n
The first incident happened on Oct. 26 near Old School Road and Creditview Road, west of Highway 10, in Caledon.<\/p>\n
Peel Regional Police say just before 3 a.m. that day two suspects in a silver BMW SUV attended a residence in that area.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege surveillance footage showed one of them an accelerant on the driveway and igniting a fire. Both suspects then fired several rounds at the residence, police say.<\/p>\n
A short time later, the same two suspects allegedly attended a business near Dixie Road and Advance Boulevard, north of Highway 407, in Brampton. <\/p>\n
Police say surveillance footage from that area showed a suspect firing several rounds toward a business from within a vehicle.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported in either incident.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 7, Iqbal Bhagria, 25, of Brampton, was arrested and charged with one count each of arson, unauthorized possession of a firearm, and uttering a forged document as well as two counts of intentionally discharge a firearm recklessly.<\/p>\n
He was held in custody pending a bail hearing.<\/p>\n
This investigation remains ongoing and police say they continue to work to identify and locate the second suspect involved in these incidents.<\/p>\n
Anyone with further information is asked to Peel police\u2019s 21 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at 905-453-2121, ext. 2133, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been arrested and charged, while another remains outstanding, following what police are calling two \u201cextortion-related\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-272950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}