A 27-year-old man from Punjab has been arrested and charged following a shooting investigation in\u00a0Surrey\u00a0that police believe is connected to ongoing extortion-related violence in the region.<\/p>\n
The accused,\u00a0Jaskaran Saroye, was arrested by the\u00a0Surrey Police Service\u00a0Extortion Response Team after officers executed a search warrant at a Surrey residence.<\/p>\n
The incident took place shortly before 3 am on April 13 near 94A Avenue and 127 Street, where gunshots were fired into an occupied home. Although the residence sustained damage, no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
As per the press release of Surrey Police, investigators identified a suspect vehicle, leading police to obtain a warrant and arrest him with assistance from the Lower Mainland District Emergency Response Team and other SPS units.<\/p>\n
Saroye has been charged with discharging a firearm into a place while knowing, or being reckless as to whether, someone was present inside. Police confirmed that he remains in custody pending a bail hearing.<\/p>\n
SPS Chief Constable\u00a0Norm Lipinski\u00a0called the shooting an \u201cextremely serious offence\u201d and said incidents involving gunfire into occupied homes pose a major threat to public safety.<\/p>\n
Police have also publicly released Saroye\u2019s photo, saying the move could help investigators gather additional information about individuals and criminal networks connected to violent extortion activities in Surrey.<\/p>\n
The city has experienced a rise in extortion-related violence targeting members of the South Asian, particularly Indian, community in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man from Punjab has been arrested and charged following a shooting investigation in\u00a0Surrey\u00a0that police believe is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674,243024],"class_list":["post-655958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655958","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=655958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}