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Peel Regional Police have announced that they have arrested 17 suspects allegedly connected to an international criminal organization known as \u201cFor Brothers,\u201d accused of targeting South Asian business owners in Region of Peel, Canada, and the United States through extortion, shootings, arson, and threats.<\/p>\n
The investigation, led by Peel Police\u2019s Extortion Task Force with support from the OPP, CBSA, FBI, and FINTRAC, began in December 2025. Police say the network operated in Brampton, Mississauga, Caledon, Surrey, and California, allegedly carrying out violent attacks against businesses that refused extortion demands.<\/p>\n
Investigators linked the accused to 24 incidents, including 16 violent attacks involving arson and multiple shootings. Police said that 324 rounds were allegedly fired in incidents tied to the group.<\/p>\n
Authorities executed multiple search warrants in April 2026, seizing six firearms, drugs, phones, SIM cards, and fraudulent identification. Police say more arrests are expected.<\/p>\n
Accused and Charges:<\/p>\n
Iqbal Singh Bhagria, 25, Brampton \u2014 reckless firearm discharge (2), unauthorized firearm possession, arson causing property damage (2), utter forged document, conspiracy to commit extortion.<\/p>\n
Ravinder Singh, 25, Surrey, B.C. \u2014 conspiracy to commit firearm discharge offences (2).<\/p>\n
Dilwarpreet Singh, 26, Brampton \u2014 unauthorized firearm possession, possession of loaded prohibited firearm, knowledge of unauthorized possession, prohibited ammunition\/device possession, failure to comply with release order, careless firearm storage.<\/p>\n
Prabhdeep Sohal, 22, Brampton \u2014 reckless firearm discharge, unauthorized firearm possession (2), firearm in motor vehicle, careless storage (2), knowledge of unauthorized possession (2), carrying concealed weapon, extortion, possession of loaded prohibited\/restricted firearm, prohibited ammunition\/device possession.<\/p>\n
Ajaydeep Singh, 29, Brampton \u2014 unauthorized firearm possession, possession of loaded prohibited firearm, knowledge of unauthorized possession, prohibited ammunition\/device possession, careless firearm storage.<\/p>\n
Rajan Singh, 28, Barrie \u2014 unauthorized firearm possession, possession of loaded prohibited firearm, knowledge of unauthorized possession, prohibited ammunition\/device possession, careless firearm storage.<\/p>\n
Akashdeep Singh, 24, Norval \u2014 unauthorized firearm possession, possession of loaded prohibited firearm, knowledge of unauthorized possession, prohibited ammunition\/device possession, careless firearm storage.<\/p>\n
Jashanbir Singh, 21, Surrey, B.C. \u2014 assault, extortion.<\/p>\n
Parapbir Ghuman, 22, Brampton \u2014 discharge firearm with intent, unauthorized firearm possession (4), extortion (4), reckless firearm discharge (3), knowledge of unauthorized possession (3), firearm in motor vehicle (3), careless storage (3), theft under.<\/p>\n
Navroop Singh, 24, Brampton \u2014 discharge firearm with intent, unauthorized firearm possession (4), extortion (4), reckless firearm discharge (3), knowledge of unauthorized possession (3), firearm in motor vehicle (3), careless storage (3), theft under.<\/p>\n
Mohinder Singh, 30, Brampton \u2014 obstruct justice (3), utter forged documents.<\/p>\n
Mandeep Singh, 21, Brampton \u2014 unauthorized firearm possession, careless firearm storage, knowledge of unauthorized possession.<\/p>\n
Amritjot Singh, 22, Brampton \u2014 possession of controlled substance (3).<\/p>\n
Jashanpreet Singh, 22, Brampton \u2014 failure to comply with release order (4).<\/p>\n
Guneet Guneet, 27, Brampton \u2014 conspiracy to commit indictable offence, careless ammunition storage.<\/p>\n
Sukhwinder Singh, 32, Brampton \u2014 failure to appear.<\/p>\n
Gautam Gautam, 22, Manteca, California \u2014 possession of stolen firearm.<\/p>\n
Police say six accused could face immigration consequences after their criminal proceedings conclude. CBSA also detained six individuals on immigration inadmissibility matters; three have already been removed from Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peel Regional Police have announced that they have arrested 17 suspects allegedly connected to an international criminal organization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-693955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693955","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=693955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}