{"id":448208,"date":"2026-02-02T01:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:09:12","slug":"3-arrested-after-early-morning-shots-fired-in-surrey-police-suspect-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448208\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested after early-morning shots fired in Surrey, police suspect extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say another shooting in Surrey, B.C., is believed to be linked to extortion, as these crimes have increased over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a release Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/surrey-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surrey police<\/a> said three men were arrested following an early-morning shooting incident in the city\u2019s Crescent Beach neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Police were patrolling the area around Crescent Road and 132 Street at about 3:50 a.m. Feb. 1, when they received reports of gunshots and a small fire outside a residence.<\/p>\n<p>While officers located a suspect vehicle nearby, the occupants of the Range Rover fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>With assistance from police dog services and officers from Delta, three suspects were taken into custody a short time later near 28 Avenue and 140 Street where they were getting into a rideshare vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the residence, which was occupied at the time, was damaged by gunfire, but there were no injuries. Surrey Fire Services extinguished the small fire near a fence at the property.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Surrey Police Service Major Crime Section has taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The three men remain in custody, and no charges have been laid at this stage. Investigators seized two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information, including CCTV or dash-cam footage, is asked to contact Surrey Police.\u00a0Tips can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11646619\/canada-minnesota-immigration-raids\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769994552_613_dd7727f7ae4c9f52da14f892771637dfae6120ed6d4d5e7acf97a0c3d2c6142c.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Canada is not Minnesota,\u2019 minister says in reaction to U.S. immigration raids\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11647310\/us-immigration-boy-detained\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-01-110416.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJudge orders 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad released from ICE detention\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police believe the incident may be linked to extortion-related activity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Premier David Eby announced federal support for B.C. police services amid ongoing concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11642478\/national-summit-extortion-crisis-bc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extortion-related violence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After meeting with the federal public safety minister in Ottawa on Wednesday, Eby said Ottawa has committed 20 additional officers and helicopter support to assist police in the province.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced a national summit on the issue, which will be held in B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Eby said police leaders from B.C., Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba, along with national police agencies, will meet within the next two weeks at the Green Timbers facility in Surrey.\u00a0He said the meeting is intended to improve information-sharing between police forces and ensure all necessary resources are in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 with files from Global News\u2019 Amy Judd<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say another shooting in Surrey, B.C., is believed to be linked to extortion, as these crimes have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,68979,44,104653],"class_list":["post-448208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-extortion","tag-news","tag-surrey-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448208","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=448208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}