{"id":784773,"date":"2026-07-06T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:35:08","slug":"2-charged-with-mischief-after-allegedly-vandalizing-pride-crosswalk-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784773\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged with mischief after allegedly vandalizing Pride crosswalk in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police say two men have been charged for allegedly vandalizing a Pride crosswalk in Surrey&#8217;s City Central neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>One of those men has been charged again for allegedly defacing the sidewalk in another incident.<\/p>\n<p>Amrit Birring, 58, and Errol Povah, 67, were both charged with one count each of mischief over $5,000 for an incident on May 30, according to a news release from Surrey Police Service (SPS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mischief allegedly occurred during a protest,&#8221; said the release.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were charged on June 26. One day later the same sidewalk was allegedly defaced again, SPS said.<\/p>\n<p>Povah was charged with a second count of mischief over $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information about the incidents to contact a non-police emergency line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-784773","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\/784773","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=784773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}