Surrey police hope photo will prompt extortion suspect response<\/p>\n
Published 10:55 am Monday, May 4, 2026<\/p>\n
Police in Surrey have released a photo of a foreign national suspected of being involved in the ongoing extortion crisis in the hopes of prompting information about his associates and activities from the public.<\/p>\n
Singh, 20, was arrested by SPS in early 2026 and, after police shared information about Singh \u2014 who police believe was involved in extortion-related criminal activity \u2014 with Canada Border Service Agency, he was removed from Canada, an SPS release notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSPS continues to work with our law enforcement partners with the shared objective of tackling the inter-jurisdictional and national components of extortion,\u201d SPS Chief Constable Norm Lipinski said. \u201cWe remain steadfastly committed to our policing colleagues and to our community in combating the extortion crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
SPS is releasing the photo of Singh after determining that disclosure is necessary to assist with ongoing police investigations, the release continued.<\/p>\n
SPS hopes the image will prompt additional witnesses, victims, or associates to come forward with relevant information regarding Singh\u2019s activities; any information provided by the public or associates can assist police in gathering information on the people and potential criminal networks involved in violent extortions.<\/p>\n
Anyone who has information on Singh as asked to contact SPS\u2019s non-emergency number at 604-599-0502, the Surrey Extortion Tip Line at 236-485-5149, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or www.solvecrime.ca if you wish to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
In September 2025, the Surrey Extortion Reward Fund of $250,000 was established to offer individuals with key information the ability to collect a reward if charges and convictions of those responsible for these crimes are secured, the release added.<\/p>\n
As of April 27, there were 91 reported extortions, 16 related shots fired, two arsons and 49 victims (27 repeat) so far in Surrey this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey police hope photo will prompt extortion suspect response Published 10:55 am Monday, May 4, 2026 Police in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-647770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647770","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=647770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}