{"id":70183,"date":"2026-06-01T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/70183\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:51:10","slug":"2-more-men-charged-after-alleged-extortions-targeting-calgarys-south-asian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/70183\/","title":{"rendered":"2 more men charged after alleged extortions targeting Calgary&#8217;s South Asian community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary police say two men are facing charges related to a series of extortions targeting the South Asian community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The charges come after demands for money were made to a business in the northeast community of Saddle Ridge on May 5, with threats to the owner, their friends and family being shot if the demand wasn&#8217;t met, Calgary police said in a Monday press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a search warrant was executed at a home on May 28, and four men were arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two of the men, 30-year-old Sandeep Singh and 39-year-old Amandeep Mallhi, have been charged with one count each of extortion and possession of the proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Singh and Mallhi are scheduled to appear in court Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">46 extortion-related incidents since April of last year<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary police say this latest incident is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/calgary-police-extortion-south-asian-communities-9.7153706\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:series of extortion cases;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;series of extortion cases&quot;}\" class=\"link \">series of extortion cases<\/a> targeting the city&#8217;s South Asian community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There have been 46 extortion-related incidents in Calgary since the series began last April, with 19 involving shootings at homes, businesses or vehicles, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Singh and Mallhi are among 14 people who have been charged with 54 criminal offences related to this extortion series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Calgary Police Service says it is working closely with the Canada Border Services Agency and other law enforcement partners to address the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary police say two men are facing charges related to a series of extortions targeting the South Asian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29086,51,1054,8515,1055,22594,21249],"class_list":["post-70183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-amandeep-mallhi","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police","tag-extortions","tag-northeast-community","tag-sandeep-singh","tag-south-asian-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70183","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=70183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}