{"id":106881,"date":"2026-06-28T01:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/106881\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:27:23","slug":"two-arrested-charged-in-surrey-b-c-shooting-linked-to-extortion-violence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/106881\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested, charged in Surrey, B.C., shooting linked to extortion violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SURREY \u2014 Two foreign nationals have been arrested and charged in a case of shots fired at a Surrey, B.C., home linked to the recent wave of extortion violence in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say they arrested four men, all foreign nationals, with two of those facing extortion-violence- related charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two other men arrested have not been charged but are in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting that led to the latest arrests was reported on June 11 at 5:30 a.m. at a home near 96 Avenue and 133A Street, where the building&#8217;s exterior was damaged by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the home was occupied at the time but no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURREY \u2014 Two foreign nationals have been arrested and charged in a case of shots fired at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[29114,15684,19267,97,2533,37937,989],"class_list":["post-106881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-division-headquarters","tag-extortion","tag-foreign-nationals","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-police","tag-tactical-response-team","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}