{"id":728069,"date":"2026-06-10T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/728069\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:56:12","slug":"trio-pleads-guilty-sentenced-in-extortion-related-surrey-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/728069\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio pleads guilty, sentenced in extortion-related Surrey shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three men have pleaded guilty in what police say are among British Columbia’s first extortion-related convictions. <\/p>\n

The charges against them relate to a shooting and fire outside a home in Surrey’s Crescent Beach neighbourhood on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

The trio, all Indian nationals, were arrested in a rideshare vehicle as they attempted to flee the scene. <\/p>\n

Taranveer Singh pleaded guilty to reckless discharge of a firearm and was sentenced to five years in prison, minus credit for time served, Surrey police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Dayajeet Billing and Harjot Singh both pleaded guilty to throwing an explosive substance, and were sentenced to 27 and 25 months in prison, respectively, less credit for time served.<\/p>\n

“This has been a very quick turnaround, so guilty pleas are a good thing,” Surrey Police Service Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said. <\/p>\n

“It provides closure in the immediacy and the sentences should hopefully send a message.” <\/p>\n

\"ThreeHarjot Singh, left, Taranveer Singh and Dayajeet Billing have been sentenced in relation to what police say they believe was an extortion-related attack in Surrey on Feb. 1. (Surrey Police Service)<\/p>\n

Houghton said all three will serve their sentences in Canada, and that the Canada Border Services Agency will decide what happens to them afterward. <\/p>\n

He added that while none of the men were charged with extortion, police believe the attack was extortion related. <\/p>\n

He said the men were arrested with the help of a program called Project Assurance that has police “proactively patrol” residential and business areas targeted by extortion. <\/p>\n

“I think these are the first convictions and sentencing in any of our [extortion] files,” Houghton said. <\/p>\n

“And in fact, they may actually be some of the first in British Columbia. So hopefully that’s the start of a trend where we see more guilty pleas and more sentences.”<\/p>\n

As of June 8, Surrey police had recorded 122 reported extortions, 19 related shots-fired calls and two arsons. <\/p>\n

Houghton said police responded to 10 shootings in January alone, but that the number of incidents have dropped significantly in recent months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-728069","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\/728069","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=728069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}