On Jan. 20, Surrey Police responded to a call of a shooting<\/a> in the 7200-block of King George Boulevard around 4:30 a.m. Police found that a business and several vehicles had been damaged by gunfire. As the business was unoccupied at the time of the shooting, there were no reported injuries, police said in a news release at the time.<\/p>\nThe shooting was believed to be extortion-related. As of July 2, no one has been arrested or charged, Surrey Police said.<\/p>\n
The claim alleges that CCTV footage from the business showed the Honda Civic approach the business with the passenger window open.<\/p>\n
The passenger was wearing a red face covering, and \u201cseveral muzzle flashes\u201d were visible in footage from the car\u2019s passenger-side window. The claim does not state who was in the car at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 26, the Surrey Police Service pulled over a car matching the Honda Civic\u2019s description. Damanveer was a passenger, and his brother, Taranvir Singh, was driving when they were pulled over.<\/p>\n
Police compared photos of the Civic taken during the stop with the CCTV footage of the shooting and found it was the vehicle involved in the Jan. 20 shooting.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 25, police stopped the Civic in the 9600 block of 129 Street and seized it. The claim states that Singh was the driver at the time but does not specify whether it was the vehicle\u2019s owner or his brother who was driving.<\/p>\n
The director of civil forfeiture is seeking to seize the vehicle because it is suspected of being \u201can instrument of unlawful activity,\u201d according to the claim. \u201cThe vehicle has been used to engage in unlawful activities which could have resulted in, or were likely to result in\u2026caused, or could have resulted in serious bodily harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
These unlawful activities are mischief, reckless discharge of a firearm at a building and at vehicles, unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, and criminal negligence.<\/p>\n
The claim alleges that Singh either \u201cintended\u201d to use the Civic to \u201cengage in unlawful activity,\u201d or he knew and \u201cimplicitly or explicitly\u201d knew the vehicle would be used for the shooting. The claim offers another alternative that Singh also might have been \u201cwillfully blind\u201d to his vehicle being used in a shooting.<\/p>\n
The claim alleges that if the Civic is returned to Singh, or proceeds from the sale of it, would likely be used for another \u201cunlawful activity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singh, or his lawyer, must file a response to the claim within 21 days of being served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. Civil Forfeiture seeks to seize vehicle linked to Surrey extortion shooting Published 2:14 pm Thursday, July 2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-776917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776917","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=776917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}