{"id":505003,"date":"2026-02-28T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505003\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:00:09","slug":"3-men-charged-in-b-c-extortion-investigation-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505003\/","title":{"rendered":"3 men charged in B.C. extortion investigation, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men are facing charges after an investigation by the BC Provincial Extortion Task Force, the RCMP says.<\/p>\n<p>The charges relate to two extortion incidents that took place at the same house in Surrey in November 2025, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2025\/11\/08\/surrey-bc-road-closure-reported-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">On Nov. 8, officers were called to a house<\/a> on 32nd Avenue near 170th Street, where they confirmed the outside of the residence was damaged by gunshots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2025\/11\/13\/shots-fired-at-surrey-home-twice-in-1-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Four days later, officers responded<\/a> to possible shots fired at the same home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"626\" data-id=\"4349767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Surrey-shooting-home-Nov-8-2025.png\" alt=\"Police officers investigate a shooting outside a Surrey home\" class=\"wp-image-4349767\"  \/>The Surrey Police Service (SPS) investigating a shooting at a home on the morning of Nov. 8, 2025. (CityNews image)<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 8, the task force announced that 21-year-old Avtar Singh had been charged with unlawfully discharging a firearm in relation to the events.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, police say Singh has additionally been charged with extortion.<\/p>\n<p>The two other men \u2014 28-year-old Sandeep Singh and 24-year-old Jagdeep Singh \u2014 have both been charged with unlawfully discharging a firearm and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>All three are foreign nationals, the RCMP says. Avtar Singh and Sandeep Singh are in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP in Alberta has issued a Canada-wide warrant for Jagdeep Singh in connection with extortion-related incidents in that province. He is also wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency on an immigration warrant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" data-id=\"4398500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/warrant-1024x579.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4398500\"  \/>A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for 24-year-old Jagdeep Singh. (RCMP Handout Image)<\/p>\n<p>Jagdeep Singh is described as 5\u201910\u201d tall and 100 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the RCMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men are facing charges after an investigation by the BC Provincial Extortion Task Force, the RCMP says.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-505003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505003","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=505003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}