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Two foreign nationals have been arrested and charged in a case of shots fired at a Surrey,\u00a0B.C., home linked to the recent wave of extortion violence in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police say officers, border agents, and a tactical response team raided two homes on June 12 following an investigation of the shooting that took place the day before.<\/p>\n
Police say they arrested four men, all foreign nationals, with two of those facing extortion-violence-related charges.<\/p>\n
The accused are 21-year-old Arman Singh and 22-year-old Simarjeet Singh, who are both facing a single charge of reckless discharge of a firearm and will next appear in court on Monday.<\/p>\n
The two other men arrested have not been charged but are in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency.<\/p>\n
The latest figures show there have been 128 reported cases of extortion violence in Surrey this year, including 20 cases of shots fired and two arsons.<\/p>\n
The shooting that led to the latest arrests was reported on June 11 at 5:30 a.m. PT at a home near 96 Avenue and 133A Street, where the building’s exterior was damaged by gunfire.<\/p>\n
Police say the home was occupied at the time but no one was injured.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Man with loaded guns arrested at traffic stop<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, British\u00a0Columbia’s\u00a0extortion task force says a 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged with offences linked to ongoing extortion violence in the province.<\/p>\n
Police say the man was identified by Metro\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0Transit officers in August 2025 during a traffic stop in Surrey,\u00a0B.C., where two loaded handguns were found in his car.<\/p>\n
Extortion investigators then looked into the information collected during the stop and found possible links to extortion violence in the Metro\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0area.<\/p>\n
The man was charged June 17 with two counts of occupying a vehicle with a firearm, and he was arrested in Abbotsford,\u00a0B.C., on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police did not say which specific case of extortion violence the arrest was linked to.<\/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":486988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-761265","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\/761265","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=761265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}