{"id":692895,"date":"2026-05-25T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:00:10","slug":"breaking-two-surrey-men-charged-in-major-extortion-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692895\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Two Surrey men charged in major extortion bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jashanbir Singh (left) and Ravinder Singh. (Peel Regional Police)<\/p>\n

Surrey\u2019s Ravinder Singh, 25, is charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and two charges of discharging a firearm, and Jashanbir Singh, 21, is charged with assault and extortion. Surrey Police Service\u2019s Supt. Lav Mangat and Supt. Bal Brach were at the news conference in Ontario.<\/p>\n

The operation also involved the FBI and includes a combined 106 charges for extortion, firearms, arson, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, drug-related crimes and breaches of court orders.<\/p>\n

Six of the 17 arrested in April were detained by the Canada Border Services Agency. Five are members or associates of the For Brothers gang. <\/p>\n

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The rest are from Ontario, with the exception of Gautam Gautam, 22, of Manteca, Calif.<\/p>\n

\u201cExtortions bring violence, fear to the community, intimidation, and it\u2019s not just the victim, entire neighbourhoods and communities are impacted by this,\u201d said Peel Chief Nishan Duraiappah.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictims were threatened, businesses were shot, there have been arsons, families intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jashanbir Singh (left) and Ravinder Singh. (Peel Regional Police) Surrey\u2019s Ravinder Singh, 25, is charged with conspiracy to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-692895","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\/692895","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=692895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}